Ever Given
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Ever Given is a large container ship that gained worldwide attention in March 2021 when it became wedged in the Suez Canal, disrupting global shipping traffic.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ever Given canonical | 20 |
| Ever Given Suez Canal incident | 1 |
| Evergreen-class container ship Ever Given | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T394182 — 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: Ever Given Context triple: [Suez Canal, blockedBy, Ever Given]
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A.
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark is a famous 19th-century British clipper ship preserved as a museum ship and historic landmark in London.
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B.
Marine Gate
Marine Gate is a historic fortified entrance in the medieval walls of Rhodes, serving as one of the main sea-facing gateways to the old city.
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C.
John Hudson set adrift
"John Hudson set adrift" refers to the presumed fate of explorer Henry Hudson’s son John, who was cast away in a small boat during the 1611 mutiny in Hudson Bay and never seen again.
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D.
Ringvaart
The Ringvaart is a canal in the Netherlands that encircles the Haarlemmermeer polder and connects various waterways in the region.
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E.
Granma yacht
The Granma yacht is the vessel that carried Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba in 1956, marking the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.
- 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: Ever Given Target entity description: Ever Given is a large container ship that gained worldwide attention in March 2021 when it became wedged in the Suez Canal, disrupting global shipping traffic.
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A.
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark is a famous 19th-century British clipper ship preserved as a museum ship and historic landmark in London.
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B.
Marine Gate
Marine Gate is a historic fortified entrance in the medieval walls of Rhodes, serving as one of the main sea-facing gateways to the old city.
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C.
John Hudson set adrift
"John Hudson set adrift" refers to the presumed fate of explorer Henry Hudson’s son John, who was cast away in a small boat during the 1611 mutiny in Hudson Bay and never seen again.
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D.
Ringvaart
The Ringvaart is a canal in the Netherlands that encircles the Haarlemmermeer polder and connects various waterways in the region.
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E.
Granma yacht
The Granma yacht is the vessel that carried Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba in 1956, marking the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Ever Given Description of subject: Ever Given is a large container ship that gained worldwide attention in March 2021 when it became wedged in the Suez Canal, disrupting global shipping traffic.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Evergreen-class container ship Ever Given
this entity surface form:
Ever Given Suez Canal incident