HMS Victorious
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HMS Victorious was a British Illustrious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service in World War II, including Arctic convoys, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Victorious canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2841264 — 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 Victorious Context triple: [Operation Pedestal, notableShip, HMS Victorious]
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A.
HMS Intrepid
HMS Intrepid was a Royal Navy ship of the line that served during the mid-18th century, notably participating in early engagements of the Seven Years' War.
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B.
HMS Intrepid
HMS Intrepid was a British Royal Navy destroyer that served during the early years of World War II, notably participating in operations against German naval forces.
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C.
HMS Glorious
HMS Glorious was a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier, originally built as a battlecruiser, that served during the interwar period and early World War II before being sunk in 1940.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 Victorious Target entity description: HMS Victorious was a British Illustrious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service in World War II, including Arctic convoys, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific.
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A.
HMS Intrepid
HMS Intrepid was a Royal Navy ship of the line that served during the mid-18th century, notably participating in early engagements of the Seven Years' War.
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B.
HMS Intrepid
HMS Intrepid was a British Royal Navy destroyer that served during the early years of World War II, notably participating in operations against German naval forces.
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C.
HMS Glorious
HMS Glorious was a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier, originally built as a battlecruiser, that served during the interwar period and early World War II before being sunk in 1940.
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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 Vanguard
HMS Vanguard is a British Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine that serves as part of the United Kingdom’s strategic nuclear deterrent force.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Illustrious-class aircraft carrier
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Royal Navy ship ⓘ aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| airGroupSize | about 50 aircraft (wartime) ⓘ |
| alliedService | United States Navy ⓘ |
| armament | aircraft ⓘ |
| beam | about 95 feet ⓘ |
| builder | Vickers-Armstrongs ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1941 ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War II
ⓘ
surface form:
Second World War
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| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement | over 1,500 officers and ratings ⓘ |
| designedFor | armoured flight deck ⓘ |
| displacement | about 23,000 tons standard ⓘ |
| feature | armoured hangar ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1937 ⓘ |
| launched | 1939 ⓘ |
| length | about 740 feet ⓘ |
| navalEnsign | White Ensign ⓘ |
| nickname | USS Robin ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Arctic convoys
ⓘ
British Pacific Fleet ⓘ
surface form:
British Pacific Fleet operations
Malta relief convoy of August 1942 ⓘ
surface form:
Malta convoys
Mediterranean Sea operations ⓘ Operation Pedestal ⓘ Operation Tungsten ⓘ Pacific War ⓘ attacks on German battleship Tirpitz ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | R38 ⓘ |
| propulsion |
four shafts
ⓘ
steam turbines ⓘ |
| role |
carrier air operations
ⓘ
fleet air defence ⓘ strike carrier ⓘ |
| serviceEntryConflict | World War II ⓘ |
| shipClass | Illustrious class ⓘ |
| shipType | fleet aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| shipyard |
Vickers-Armstrongs
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surface form:
Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle upon Tyne
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| topSpeed | about 30 knots ⓘ |
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 Victorious Description of subject: HMS Victorious was a British Illustrious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service in World War II, including Arctic convoys, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarine