SS Great Eastern
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SS Great Eastern was a pioneering 19th-century iron steamship, famed for its unprecedented size and advanced engineering, which made it a landmark in maritime history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| SS Great Eastern canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2605118 — 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: SS Great Eastern Context triple: [Isambard Kingdom Brunel, knownFor, SS Great Eastern]
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A.
SS Great Western
SS Great Western was a pioneering 19th-century steamship that became one of the first successful transatlantic ocean liners, showcasing Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s innovative maritime engineering.
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B.
SS Great Britain
SS Great Britain is a pioneering 19th-century iron-hulled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, now preserved as a major maritime museum ship in Bristol.
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C.
M/V Aurora
M/V Aurora is a state-operated ferry vessel that serves coastal communities as part of Alaska’s Marine Highway System.
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D.
M/V Kennicott
M/V Kennicott is a mainline Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger, vehicle, and cargo service to coastal communities across Alaska.
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E.
S.S. Lotus
S.S. Lotus is the steamship at the center of the 1927 Permanent Court of International Justice case "The Lotus," a landmark decision in international law on jurisdiction over incidents on the high seas.
- 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: SS Great Eastern Target entity description: SS Great Eastern was a pioneering 19th-century iron steamship, famed for its unprecedented size and advanced engineering, which made it a landmark in maritime history.
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A.
SS Great Western
SS Great Western was a pioneering 19th-century steamship that became one of the first successful transatlantic ocean liners, showcasing Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s innovative maritime engineering.
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B.
SS Great Britain
SS Great Britain is a pioneering 19th-century iron-hulled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, now preserved as a major maritime museum ship in Bristol.
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C.
M/V Aurora
M/V Aurora is a state-operated ferry vessel that serves coastal communities as part of Alaska’s Marine Highway System.
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D.
M/V Kennicott
M/V Kennicott is a mainline Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger, vehicle, and cargo service to coastal communities across Alaska.
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E.
S.S. Lotus
S.S. Lotus is the steamship at the center of the 1927 Permanent Court of International Justice case "The Lotus," a landmark decision in international law on jurisdiction over incidents on the high seas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
iron sailing ship
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maritime engineering landmark ⓘ ocean liner ⓘ paddle steamer ⓘ steamship ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Great Eastern ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Victorian era maritime engineering ⓘ |
| beam |
about 25 meters
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about 82 feet ⓘ |
| builder | John Scott Russell & Co. ⓘ |
| capacity | about 4,000 passengers ⓘ |
| completed | 1859 ⓘ |
| constructionSite |
Millwall
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surface form:
Millwall, London
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| countryOfConstruction | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement | about 400 crew ⓘ |
| designer | Isambard Kingdom Brunel ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1859 ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | icon of Victorian engineering ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | iron ⓘ |
| influenced | subsequent large ocean liner design ⓘ |
| initialOwner | Eastern Steam Navigation Company ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1854 ⓘ |
| laterOwner |
Eastern Steam Navigation Company
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surface form:
Great Eastern Steamship Company
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| laterUse | cable-laying ship ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1858-01-31 ⓘ |
| launched | 1858 ⓘ |
| length |
about 211 meters
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about 692 feet ⓘ |
| maidenVoyage | 1859 ⓘ |
| navalArchitect | Isambard Kingdom Brunel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advanced iron hull construction
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being the largest ship in the world at the time of her launch ⓘ combination of paddle, screw, and sail power ⓘ pioneering long-distance ocean travel design ⓘ |
| powerType | steam ⓘ |
| primaryRoute | transatlantic service between Britain and North America ⓘ |
| propulsion |
auxiliary sails
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paddle wheels ⓘ screw propeller ⓘ |
| retiredFromService | 1889 ⓘ |
| rigging | six-masted sail rig ⓘ |
| scrapped | 1889 ⓘ |
| scrappedAt | Rock Ferry, River Mersey ⓘ |
| shipName | SS Great Eastern self-link ⓘ |
| shipyard |
Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
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surface form:
Millwall Iron Works
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| tonnage | about 18,915 gross register tons ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cargo transport
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laying transatlantic telegraph cables ⓘ passenger transport ⓘ |
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: SS Great Eastern Description of subject: SS Great Eastern was a pioneering 19th-century iron steamship, famed for its unprecedented size and advanced engineering, which made it a landmark in maritime history.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.