SS Vega
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SS Vega was the steamship that carried Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld on the first successful navigation of the Northeast Passage in the late 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SS Vega canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2989500 — 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 Vega Context triple: [Vega expedition, shipUsed, SS Vega]
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A.
Vela
Vela is a southern sky constellation known for containing the Vela Supernova Remnant and several bright stars, and was once part of the larger ancient constellation Argo Navis.
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B.
Antares
Antares was the Lunar Module used in NASA’s Apollo 14 mission to land astronauts on the Moon in 1971.
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C.
Orion
Orion is a prominent constellation in the night sky, easily recognized by its three-star belt and associated in many cultures with the figure of a hunter.
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D.
Orion
Orion is an American film production and distribution company known for releasing acclaimed movies such as "The Silence of the Lambs," "Amadeus," and "Dances with Wolves."
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E.
The Centaurus
The Centaurus is a prominent mixed-use complex in Islamabad, Pakistan, featuring high-rise towers that house a shopping mall, residential apartments, offices, and a hotel.
- 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 Vega Target entity description: SS Vega was the steamship that carried Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld on the first successful navigation of the Northeast Passage in the late 19th century.
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A.
Vela
Vela is a southern sky constellation known for containing the Vela Supernova Remnant and several bright stars, and was once part of the larger ancient constellation Argo Navis.
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B.
Antares
Antares was the Lunar Module used in NASA’s Apollo 14 mission to land astronauts on the Moon in 1971.
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C.
Orion
Orion is a prominent constellation in the night sky, easily recognized by its three-star belt and associated in many cultures with the figure of a hunter.
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D.
Orion
Orion is an American film production and distribution company known for releasing acclaimed movies such as "The Silence of the Lambs," "Amadeus," and "Dances with Wolves."
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E.
The Centaurus
The Centaurus is a prominent mixed-use complex in Islamabad, Pakistan, featuring high-rise towers that house a shopping mall, residential apartments, offices, and a hotel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
barque
ⓘ
steamship ⓘ |
| builtFor |
sealing
ⓘ
whaling ⓘ |
| carried | Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ⓘ |
| commandedBy | Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ⓘ |
| completionYearOfNortheastPassageVoyage | 1880 ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry | Sweden ⓘ |
| departureYearOfNortheastPassageVoyage | 1878 ⓘ |
| endPointOfNotableVoyage | Stockholm ⓘ |
| flag | Sweden ⓘ |
| hasReinforcedHull | true ⓘ |
| hasSailPlan | barque-rigged ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | wood ⓘ |
| laidDownYear | 1872 ⓘ |
| launchYear | 1873 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Vega (star) ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
completed first through voyage of the Northeast Passage
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overwintered in Arctic ice during Northeast Passage voyage ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Arctic Ocean
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Arctic seas of Russia ⓘ
surface form:
Siberian Arctic seas
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| ownerDuringNortheastPassageVoyage | Swedish Vega Expedition ⓘ |
| partOf |
Vega expedition
ⓘ
surface form:
Vega Expedition
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| propulsionType | steam engine ⓘ |
| route | Northeast Passage ⓘ |
| startPointOfNotableVoyage | Karlskrona ⓘ |
| tookPartIn | first successful navigation of the Northeast Passage ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Arctic exploration
ⓘ
scientific expedition ⓘ |
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 Vega Description of subject: SS Vega was the steamship that carried Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld on the first successful navigation of the Northeast Passage in the late 19th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.