specially built ship Louxor
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The specially built ship Louxor was a custom-designed vessel constructed in the 19th century to transport the massive Luxor Obelisk from Egypt to France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| specially built ship Louxor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5242377 — 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: specially built ship Louxor Context triple: [Obelisk of Luxor, transportMethod, specially built ship Louxor]
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A.
Khufu ship
The Khufu ship is an ancient full-sized cedarwood vessel, over 4,500 years old, discovered buried near the Great Pyramid and believed to have been intended for the pharaoh Khufu’s use in the afterlife.
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B.
Sokar barque
The Sokar barque is a sacred funerary boat in ancient Egyptian religion, linked to the god Sokar and used symbolically in rituals concerning death, rebirth, and the underworld.
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C.
S.S. Lotus
S.S. Lotus is the steamship at the center of the 1927 Permanent Court of International Justice case "The Lotus," a landmark decision in international law on jurisdiction over incidents on the high seas.
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D.
Marble Boat
The Marble Boat is an ornate lakeside pavilion in Beijing’s Summer Palace, built to resemble a stone ship and symbolizing the Qing dynasty’s imperial grandeur.
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E.
Arielle Ship
Arielle Ship is an American soccer forward known for her standout collegiate career at the University of California, Berkeley and subsequent professional play in the National Women's Soccer League.
- 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: specially built ship Louxor Target entity description: The specially built ship Louxor was a custom-designed vessel constructed in the 19th century to transport the massive Luxor Obelisk from Egypt to France.
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A.
Khufu ship
The Khufu ship is an ancient full-sized cedarwood vessel, over 4,500 years old, discovered buried near the Great Pyramid and believed to have been intended for the pharaoh Khufu’s use in the afterlife.
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B.
Sokar barque
The Sokar barque is a sacred funerary boat in ancient Egyptian religion, linked to the god Sokar and used symbolically in rituals concerning death, rebirth, and the underworld.
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C.
S.S. Lotus
S.S. Lotus is the steamship at the center of the 1927 Permanent Court of International Justice case "The Lotus," a landmark decision in international law on jurisdiction over incidents on the high seas.
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D.
Marble Boat
The Marble Boat is an ornate lakeside pavilion in Beijing’s Summer Palace, built to resemble a stone ship and symbolizing the Qing dynasty’s imperial grandeur.
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E.
Arielle Ship
Arielle Ship is an American soccer forward known for her standout collegiate career at the University of California, Berkeley and subsequent professional play in the National Women's Soccer League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ship
ⓘ
special-purpose vessel ⓘ |
| arrivalCountry | France ⓘ |
| builtFor |
French government
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of France
|
| cargo |
Luxor Obelisk
ⓘ
linked to:
Obelisk of Luxor
|
| cargoType |
ancient Egyptian obelisk
ⓘ
monolithic stone monument ⓘ |
| constructedInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| departureCountry | Egypt ⓘ |
| designedFor |
transporting a massive obelisk
ⓘ
transporting the Luxor Obelisk from Egypt to France ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th century maritime engineering ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Luxor ⓘ |
| notableFor | transporting the Luxor Obelisk to France ⓘ |
| operator | France ⓘ |
| purpose | transport of the Luxor Obelisk ⓘ |
| route | Egypt to France ⓘ |
| shipType | custom-designed transport ship ⓘ |
| significance | enabled relocation of the Luxor Obelisk to Paris ⓘ |
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: specially built ship Louxor Description of subject: The specially built ship Louxor was a custom-designed vessel constructed in the 19th century to transport the massive Luxor Obelisk from Egypt to France.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.