Kalmar Nyckel
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Kalmar Nyckel was a 17th-century Dutch-built armed merchant ship best known for transporting Swedish settlers to North America and helping establish the colony of New Sweden along the Delaware River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kalmar Nyckel canonical | 2 |
| Kalmar Nyckel monument | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4826570 — 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: Kalmar Nyckel Context triple: [New Sweden, foundingShip, Kalmar Nyckel]
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A.
Vasa
Vasa was a prominent royal dynasty in Sweden and Poland-Lithuania that produced several influential monarchs during the 16th and 17th centuries.
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B.
Gangut
Gangut was a Russian ship of the line that served in the Imperial Russian Navy and took part in major 19th-century naval engagements.
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C.
Jevnaker
Jevnaker is a municipality in Viken county, Norway, known for its scenic lakeside setting and the Hadeland Glassverk glassworks.
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D.
Vasa (warship)
Vasa (warship) is a 17th-century Swedish warship that famously sank on its maiden voyage in 1628 and was later salvaged to become one of the world’s best-preserved historic ships.
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E.
Kalmar War
The Kalmar War was an early 17th-century conflict between Sweden and Denmark-Norway over control of trade routes and territorial dominance in Scandinavia.
- 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: Kalmar Nyckel Target entity description: Kalmar Nyckel was a 17th-century Dutch-built armed merchant ship best known for transporting Swedish settlers to North America and helping establish the colony of New Sweden along the Delaware River.
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A.
Vasa
Vasa was a prominent royal dynasty in Sweden and Poland-Lithuania that produced several influential monarchs during the 16th and 17th centuries.
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B.
Gangut
Gangut was a Russian ship of the line that served in the Imperial Russian Navy and took part in major 19th-century naval engagements.
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C.
Jevnaker
Jevnaker is a municipality in Viken county, Norway, known for its scenic lakeside setting and the Hadeland Glassverk glassworks.
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D.
Vasa (warship)
Vasa (warship) is a 17th-century Swedish warship that famously sank on its maiden voyage in 1628 and was later salvaged to become one of the world’s best-preserved historic ships.
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E.
Kalmar War
The Kalmar War was an early 17th-century conflict between Sweden and Denmark-Norway over control of trade routes and territorial dominance in Scandinavia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
armed merchant ship
ⓘ
sailing ship ⓘ ship ⓘ |
| activePeriodEnd | 1650s ⓘ |
| activePeriodStart | 1620s ⓘ |
| armament | cannons ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Delaware Valley
ⓘ
colony of New Sweden ⓘ
linked to:
New Sweden
|
| builder | Dutch shipbuilders ⓘ |
| carried |
settlers
ⓘ
supplies ⓘ trade goods ⓘ |
| commandedBy |
Peter Minuit
ⓘ
various Swedish captains ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Sweden ⓘ |
| fate | lost at sea ⓘ |
| fateDate | 1650s ⓘ |
| firstArrivalLocation |
present-day Wilmington, Delaware
ⓘ
linked to:
Wilmington, Delaware
|
| firstArrivalYear | 1638 ⓘ |
| functionedAs |
colonial supply ship
ⓘ
royal transport ⓘ |
| historicalEra | 17th century ⓘ |
| launchDate | c. 1625 ⓘ |
| legacy |
namesake of modern replica ship
ⓘ
symbol of Swedish colonization in North America ⓘ |
| madeTransatlanticVoyages | multiple ⓘ |
| namedAfter | city of Kalmar ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping establish the colony of New Sweden
ⓘ
transporting Swedish settlers to North America ⓘ |
| operator | Kingdom of Sweden ⓘ |
| portOfRegistry | Kalmar ⓘ |
| primaryRole | merchant ship ⓘ |
| replicaBuilt | 1997 ⓘ |
| replicaFunction |
educational vessel
ⓘ
sailing museum ⓘ |
| replicaHomePort | Wilmington, Delaware ⓘ |
| replicaOperator | Kalmar Nyckel Foundation ⓘ |
| secondaryRole | warship ⓘ |
| serviceIn | Thirty Years' War ⓘ |
| sponsoredBy |
New Sweden Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Swedish South Company
Swedish South Company ⓘ |
| usedBy |
New Sweden Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Swedish South Company
Swedish Navy ⓘ |
| voyageDestination |
Delaware River
ⓘ
New Sweden ⓘ North America ⓘ |
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: Kalmar Nyckel Description of subject: Kalmar Nyckel was a 17th-century Dutch-built armed merchant ship best known for transporting Swedish settlers to North America and helping establish the colony of New Sweden along the Delaware River.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kalmar Nyckel