Spanish ship San Nicolás
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The Spanish ship San Nicolás was a ship of the line in the Spanish Navy, best known for being captured by the British Royal Navy during Admiral Jervis and Nelson’s victory at the 1797 Battle of Cape St Vincent.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spanish ship San Nicolás canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2773570 — 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: Spanish ship San Nicolás Context triple: [Battle of Cape St Vincent, shipInvolved, Spanish ship San Nicolás]
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A.
Santa María
Santa María was the largest of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492.
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B.
Santa María
Santa María is a large stratovolcano in Guatemala known for its catastrophic 1902 eruption and ongoing activity at its Santiaguito lava dome complex.
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C.
Santa María
Santa María is a small Chilean city and commune located in the Valparaíso Region, known for its agricultural activity within the Aconcagua Valley.
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D.
Santa María
Santa María is a town in northwestern Argentina known as an agricultural and archaeological center in the Calchaquí Valley region of Catamarca Province.
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E.
Spanish training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano
The Spanish training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a historic four-masted topsail schooner used by the Spanish Navy as a sail training vessel for officer cadets and international goodwill voyages.
- 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: Spanish ship San Nicolás Target entity description: The Spanish ship San Nicolás was a ship of the line in the Spanish Navy, best known for being captured by the British Royal Navy during Admiral Jervis and Nelson’s victory at the 1797 Battle of Cape St Vincent.
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A.
Santa María
Santa María was the largest of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492.
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B.
Santa María
Santa María is a town in northwestern Argentina known as an agricultural and archaeological center in the Calchaquí Valley region of Catamarca Province.
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C.
Santa María
Santa María is a large stratovolcano in Guatemala known for its catastrophic 1902 eruption and ongoing activity at its Santiaguito lava dome complex.
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D.
Santa María
Santa María is a small Chilean city and commune located in the Valparaíso Region, known for its agricultural activity within the Aconcagua Valley.
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E.
Spanish training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano
The Spanish training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a historic four-masted topsail schooner used by the Spanish Navy as a sail training vessel for officer cadets and international goodwill voyages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
sailing ship
ⓘ
ship of the line ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| armamentType | cannon ⓘ |
| associatedEvent |
Battle of Cape St Vincent
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surface form:
Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797)
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| associatedPerson |
Horatio Nelson
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Admiral Sir John Jervis ⓘ
surface form:
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
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| battle | Battle of Cape St Vincent ⓘ |
| belligerentSide | Spanish side ⓘ |
| capturedBy |
Royal Navy
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| conflict | French Revolutionary Wars ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| dateOfBattle | 1797-02-14 ⓘ |
| era | Age of Sail ⓘ |
| fate | captured by the British at the Battle of Cape St Vincent ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | late 18th century ⓘ |
| navalTacticInCapture |
boarding
ⓘ
ship-to-ship boarding ⓘ |
| navalTheater |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
off Cape St Vincent ⓘ |
| notability | known for being captured by the British Royal Navy at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797 ⓘ |
| notableAdmiralOpposing |
Admiral Sir John Jervis
ⓘ
surface form:
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
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| notableCommanderDuringCapture | Horatio Nelson ⓘ |
| operator | Spanish Navy ⓘ |
| originalName | San Nicolás ⓘ |
| propulsion | sails ⓘ |
| service | Spanish Navy before capture ⓘ |
| serviceBranch |
Spanish Navy
ⓘ
surface form:
Armada Española
|
| usedIn | line of battle ⓘ |
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: Spanish ship San Nicolás Description of subject: The Spanish ship San Nicolás was a ship of the line in the Spanish Navy, best known for being captured by the British Royal Navy during Admiral Jervis and Nelson’s victory at the 1797 Battle of Cape St Vincent.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.