RMS Baltic (1903)
E415219
RMS Baltic (1903) was a large early 20th-century British ocean liner that served as a transatlantic passenger ship for the White Star Line.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RMS Baltic | 4 |
| RMS Baltic (1903) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4134193 — 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: RMS Baltic (1903) Context triple: [White Star Line, operatedVessel, RMS Baltic (1903)]
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A.
Lusitania
Lusitania was an ancient Roman province on the western Iberian Peninsula, roughly corresponding to much of modern Portugal and part of western Spain.
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B.
RMS Lusitania
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner famously sunk by a German U-boat in 1915 during World War I, an event that significantly influenced public opinion against Germany.
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C.
Lochnagar
Lochnagar is a prominent mountain in the Cairngorms of Scotland, famed for its dramatic north-facing corrie and connections to royal Deeside.
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D.
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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E.
Russian battleship Tsesarevich
The Russian battleship Tsesarevich was a pre-dreadnought warship of the Imperial Russian Navy that played a prominent role in the Russo-Japanese War, notably serving as a flagship in major naval engagements.
- 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: RMS Baltic (1903) Target entity description: RMS Baltic (1903) was a large early 20th-century British ocean liner that served as a transatlantic passenger ship for the White Star Line.
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A.
Lusitania
Lusitania was an ancient Roman province on the western Iberian Peninsula, roughly corresponding to much of modern Portugal and part of western Spain.
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B.
RMS Lusitania
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner famously sunk by a German U-boat in 1915 during World War I, an event that significantly influenced public opinion against Germany.
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C.
Lochnagar
Lochnagar is a prominent mountain in the Cairngorms of Scotland, famed for its dramatic north-facing corrie and connections to royal Deeside.
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D.
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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E.
Russian battleship Tsesarevich
The Russian battleship Tsesarevich was a pre-dreadnought warship of the Imperial Russian Navy that played a prominent role in the Russo-Japanese War, notably serving as a flagship in major naval engagements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ocean liner
ⓘ
passenger ship ⓘ steamship ⓘ |
| captainDuringTitanicSinking | Edward J. Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classConfiguration |
first class
ⓘ
second class ⓘ third class ⓘ |
| completedIn | 1904 ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement | over 400 crew ⓘ |
| distinction |
largest ship in the world for a time
ⓘ
one of the largest ships in the world at completion ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1904 ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| flag | British flag ⓘ |
| homePort | Liverpool ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| IMOType | passenger vessel ⓘ |
| laterCaptain | J. B. Ranson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1903 ⓘ |
| length | about 222 meters ⓘ |
| maidenVoyageDate | 1904-06-29 ⓘ |
| maidenVoyageFrom | Liverpool ⓘ |
| maidenVoyageTo | New York City ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Baltic Sea ⓘ |
| notableEvent | received distress calls from RMS Titanic in April 1912 ⓘ |
| numberOfFunnels | 2 ⓘ |
| numberOfMasts | 4 ⓘ |
| operator | White Star Line ⓘ |
| owner |
White Star Line
ⓘ
surface form:
Oceanic Steam Navigation Company
|
| passengerCapacity | over 2500 passengers ⓘ |
| placeBuilt | Belfast ⓘ |
| powerType | coal-fired steam ⓘ |
| propulsion |
steam engines
ⓘ
twin screw propellers ⓘ |
| roleDuringWar |
auxiliary cruiser
ⓘ
troopship ⓘ |
| scrappedAt | Osaka ONNED1 ⓘ |
| scrappedIn | 1933 ⓘ |
| serviceRoute |
Liverpool–New York
ⓘ
Southampton–New York City ⓘ
surface form:
Southampton–New York
|
| serviceType | transatlantic passenger service ⓘ |
| shippingLine | White Star Line ONNED1 ⓘ |
| shipyard | Harland and Wolff ⓘ |
| sisterShip |
RMS Adriatic (1907)
ⓘ
RMS Majestic ⓘ
surface form:
RMS Cedric
RMS Celtic (1901) ⓘ
surface form:
RMS Celtic
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| tonnage | 23900 gross register tons ⓘ |
| tookPartIn | World War I ⓘ |
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: RMS Baltic (1903) Description of subject: RMS Baltic (1903) was a large early 20th-century British ocean liner that served as a transatlantic passenger ship for the White Star Line.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Edward John Smith
this entity surface form:
RMS Baltic
this entity surface form:
RMS Baltic
this entity surface form:
RMS Baltic
this entity surface form:
RMS Baltic