HMS Sheffield (D80)
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HMS Sheffield (D80) was a Royal Navy Type 42 guided-missile destroyer best known for being sunk by an Argentine Exocet missile during the Falklands War in 1982.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HMS Sheffield (D80) canonical | 3 |
| HMS Sheffield | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2344540 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: HMS Sheffield (D80) Context triple: [Type 42 destroyer, notableShip, HMS Sheffield (D80)]
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A.
HMS Formidable
HMS Formidable was a British Illustrious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service in World War II, including major operations in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters.
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B.
HMS Indomitable
HMS Indomitable was a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier of the Illustrious class that saw extensive service in World War II, including major operations in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters.
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C.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard is a British Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine that serves as part of the United Kingdom’s strategic nuclear deterrent force.
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D.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the decisive 1798 Battle of the Nile in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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E.
HMS Defender (D36)
HMS Defender (D36) is a Royal Navy air-defence destroyer commissioned in the early 2010s and equipped with advanced radar and missile systems for fleet protection and maritime security operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: HMS Sheffield (D80) Target entity description: HMS Sheffield (D80) was a Royal Navy Type 42 guided-missile destroyer best known for being sunk by an Argentine Exocet missile during the Falklands War in 1982.
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A.
HMS Formidable
HMS Formidable was a British Illustrious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service in World War II, including major operations in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters.
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B.
HMS Indomitable
HMS Indomitable was a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier of the Illustrious class that saw extensive service in World War II, including major operations in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters.
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C.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard is a British Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine that serves as part of the United Kingdom’s strategic nuclear deterrent force.
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D.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the decisive 1798 Battle of the Nile in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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E.
HMS Defender (D36)
HMS Defender (D36) is a Royal Navy air-defence destroyer commissioned in the early 2010s and equipped with advanced radar and missile systems for fleet protection and maritime security operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy warship
ⓘ
Type 42 destroyer ⓘ guided-missile destroyer ⓘ |
| aircraftCarried |
Lynx helicopter
ⓘ
surface form:
Westland Lynx helicopter
|
| armament |
4.5-inch Mark 8 naval gun
ⓘ
Sea Dart surface-to-air missile system ⓘ anti-submarine torpedoes ⓘ |
| attackedBy |
Argentine Navy
ⓘ
Super Étendard aircraft ⓘ |
| builder |
Barrow-in-Furness shipyard
ⓘ
Vickers-Armstrongs ⓘ
surface form:
Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd
|
| causeOfSinking | Argentine Exocet missile strike ⓘ |
| class |
Type 42 destroyer
ⓘ
surface form:
Sheffield-class (Type 42) destroyer
|
| commissioned | 16 February 1975 ⓘ |
| conflict | Falklands War ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement | around 260 personnel ⓘ |
| dateOfAttack | 4 May 1982 ⓘ |
| dateOfSinking | 10 May 1982 ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1982 (loss in action) ⓘ |
| displacement | approximately 4,100 tonnes (full load) ⓘ |
| fate | sunk and later scuttled in the South Atlantic ⓘ |
| followedBy | Type 45 destroyer ⓘ |
| hitBy |
Exocet anti-ship missile
ⓘ
surface form:
AM39 Exocet missile
|
| homePort | Portsmouth ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| IMOorPennantType | destroyer pennant number D80 ⓘ |
| laidDown | 15 January 1970 ⓘ |
| launched | 10 June 1971 ⓘ |
| length | approximately 125 metres ⓘ |
| locationOfAttack |
South Atlantic
ⓘ
surface form:
South Atlantic Ocean
|
| maximumSpeed | about 30 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Sheffield
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Sheffield
|
| notableEvent | first Royal Navy ship sunk in action since World War II ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | D80 ⓘ |
| precededBy | County-class destroyer ⓘ |
| propulsion |
COGOG gas-turbine system
ⓘ
Rolls-Royce Olympus turbojet ⓘ
surface form:
Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbines
Rolls-Royce Tyne gas turbines ⓘ |
| role | air-defence destroyer ⓘ |
| serviceEntryDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| shipNumberInClass | lead ship of the Type 42 class ⓘ |
| sisterShip |
HMS Birmingham (D86)
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HMS Newcastle (D87) ⓘ |
| sunkIn | Falklands War ⓘ |
| theatreOfOperations | South Atlantic ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: HMS Sheffield (D80) Description of subject: HMS Sheffield (D80) was a Royal Navy Type 42 guided-missile destroyer best known for being sunk by an Argentine Exocet missile during the Falklands War in 1982.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
AM39 Exocet
this entity surface form:
HMS Sheffield