Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers
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The Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers are the Royal Navy’s largest and most advanced warships, designed as modern flagship vessels capable of deploying fixed-wing jets and helicopters for global power projection.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T348169 — 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: Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers Context triple: [British Armed Forces, usesEquipment, Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers]
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A.
HMS Prince of Wales
HMS Prince of Wales was a British King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that saw significant action in World War II, including engagements against the German battleship Bismarck and service in the Pacific before being sunk by Japanese aircraft in 1941.
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HMS Centurion
HMS Centurion was a British King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that served during World War I and later as a target and decoy ship in World War II.
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C.
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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Kaga-class aircraft carrier
The Kaga-class aircraft carrier was a planned class of Japanese aircraft carriers derived from the Izumo-class helicopter destroyers, intended to operate fixed-wing STOVL jets like the F-35B.
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E.
HMS Drake
HMS Drake was a British armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy, launched in the early 20th century and serving prominently before and during World War I.
- 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: Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers Target entity description: The Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers are the Royal Navy’s largest and most advanced warships, designed as modern flagship vessels capable of deploying fixed-wing jets and helicopters for global power projection.
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A.
HMS Prince of Wales
HMS Prince of Wales was a British King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that saw significant action in World War II, including engagements against the German battleship Bismarck and service in the Pacific before being sunk by Japanese aircraft in 1941.
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B.
HMS Centurion
HMS Centurion was a British King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that served during World War I and later as a target and decoy ship in World War II.
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C.
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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D.
Kaga-class aircraft carrier
The Kaga-class aircraft carrier was a planned class of Japanese aircraft carriers derived from the Izumo-class helicopter destroyers, intended to operate fixed-wing STOVL jets like the F-35B.
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E.
HMS Drake
HMS Drake was a British armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy, launched in the early 20th century and serving prominently before and during World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aircraft carrier class
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warship class ⓘ |
| aircraftTypeSupported |
NH90 helicopter
ⓘ
surface form:
Merlin helicopters
STOVL jets ⓘ Wildcat helicopter ⓘ
surface form:
Wildcat helicopters
|
| airGroupCapacity | up to around 40 aircraft in surge ⓘ |
| allianceRole | NATO operations ⓘ |
| arrestorWires | none ⓘ |
| beam | about 70 metres over flight deck ⓘ |
| builder |
BAE Systems
ⓘ
Babcock International ⓘ |
| catapults | none ⓘ |
| constructionMethod | modular block construction ⓘ |
| constructionSite |
Rosyth
ⓘ
surface form:
Rosyth Dockyard
|
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement |
around 1600 with air group embarked
ⓘ
around 700 ship’s company ⓘ |
| defensiveSystems |
30 mm DS30M Mark 2 guns
ⓘ
Phalanx CIWS (modernization era) ⓘ
surface form:
Phalanx CIWS
miniguns ⓘ |
| designedAirWing | F-35B Lightning II ⓘ |
| designedFor |
amphibious support
ⓘ
carrier strike ⓘ disaster relief ⓘ fixed-wing aircraft operations ⓘ helicopter operations ⓘ humanitarian assistance ⓘ |
| displacement | about 65000 tonnes full load ⓘ |
| flagState | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| flightDeckFeature | ski-jump ramp ⓘ |
| isSTOVLCarrier | true ⓘ |
| length | about 280 metres ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | over 25 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Elizabeth I of England
ⓘ
surface form:
Queen Elizabeth I
|
| numberOfShipsPlanned | 2 ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| primaryMission | Carrier Strike Group operations ⓘ |
| programmeName |
Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Queen Elizabeth-class carrier programme
|
| propulsion |
gas turbines and diesel generators
ⓘ
integrated full electric propulsion ⓘ |
| role |
aircraft carrier
ⓘ
fleet flagship ⓘ power projection ⓘ |
| secondaryMission |
Joint Expeditionary Force operations
ⓘ
Littoral manoeuvre support ⓘ |
| sensorSuite |
Artisan 3D radar
ⓘ
S1850M long-range radar ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | 2017s decade ⓘ |
| ship |
HMS Prince of Wales
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surface form:
HMS Prince of Wales (R09)
HMS Queen Elizabeth ⓘ
surface form:
HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08)
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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: Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers Description of subject: The Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers are the Royal Navy’s largest and most advanced warships, designed as modern flagship vessels capable of deploying fixed-wing jets and helicopters for global power projection.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers
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programmeName
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Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Queen Elizabeth-class carrier programme
this entity surface form:
Queen Elizabeth class
this entity surface form:
Queen Elizabeth class
this entity surface form:
Queen Elizabeth class
this entity surface form:
Queen Elizabeth class
Fairey Swordfish (in cooperation with Fleet Air Arm)
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designedFor
→
Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers
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subject surface form:
Fairey Swordfish
this entity surface form:
Royal Navy aircraft carriers
this entity surface form:
Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier
this entity surface form:
Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier blocks
this entity surface form:
Royal Navy aircraft carriers
this entity surface form:
Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier
this entity surface form:
Queen Elizabeth-class carrier programme
this entity surface form:
Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier programme
Aircraft Carrier Alliance
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hasConstructionResponsibilityFor
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Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers
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this entity surface form:
Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier
subject surface form:
HMS Barham
this entity surface form:
Queen Elizabeth class