French Navy ship De Grasse
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The French Navy ship De Grasse is a warship named in honor of Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse, famed for his decisive role in the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| French Navy ship De Grasse canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4303176 — 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: French Navy ship De Grasse Context triple: [François Joseph Paul de Grasse, honouredIn, French Navy ship De Grasse]
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French flagship L’Orient
The French flagship L’Orient was a massive 120-gun ship of the line that famously exploded and sank during the Battle of the Nile in 1798, becoming one of the most dramatic naval losses of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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B.
Couronne (French ship)
Couronne was a French warship that gained historical significance for its role in the 1756 Battle of Minorca during the Seven Years' War.
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C.
Bucentaure
Bucentaure was a French 80-gun ship of the line that served as Admiral Villeneuve’s flagship and played a central role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
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D.
HMS Guerriere
HMS Guerriere was a British Royal Navy frigate best known for being decisively defeated by the American frigate USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
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E.
Foudroyant (French ship)
Foudroyant was a prominent 80-gun French ship of the line of the mid-18th century that played a key role in naval actions such as the Seven Years' War.
- 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: French Navy ship De Grasse Target entity description: The French Navy ship De Grasse is a warship named in honor of Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse, famed for his decisive role in the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
French flagship L’Orient
The French flagship L’Orient was a massive 120-gun ship of the line that famously exploded and sank during the Battle of the Nile in 1798, becoming one of the most dramatic naval losses of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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B.
Couronne (French ship)
Couronne was a French warship that gained historical significance for its role in the 1756 Battle of Minorca during the Seven Years' War.
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C.
Bucentaure
Bucentaure was a French 80-gun ship of the line that served as Admiral Villeneuve’s flagship and played a central role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
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D.
HMS Guerriere
HMS Guerriere was a British Royal Navy frigate best known for being decisively defeated by the American frigate USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
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E.
Foudroyant (French ship)
Foudroyant was a prominent 80-gun French ship of the line of the mid-18th century that played a key role in naval actions such as the Seven Years' War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French Navy ship
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warship ⓘ |
| associatedConflict | American Revolutionary War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commemorates | French contribution to American independence ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| hasCrewType | naval personnel ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
maritime operations
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naval warfare ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | blue-water navy operations ⓘ |
| hasNameLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | surname De Grasse ⓘ |
| hasRole |
naval warfare
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surface combatant ⓘ |
| hasType | military vessel ⓘ |
| honours |
American Revolutionary War commander
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François Joseph Paul de Grasse NERFINISHED ⓘ French admiral ⓘ |
| isInServiceWith | French Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Admiral de Grasse
NERFINISHED
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François Joseph Paul de Grasse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | French Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | French fleet ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Marine nationale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbolizes | Franco-American naval cooperation ⓘ |
| usedFor |
allied exercises
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maritime security operations ⓘ national defense ⓘ power projection ⓘ sea control ⓘ |
| vesselClassCountry | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: French Navy ship De Grasse Description of subject: The French Navy ship De Grasse is a warship named in honor of Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse, famed for his decisive role in the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.