aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
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The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is France’s nuclear-powered flagship and only CATOBAR-equipped carrier, serving as the core of the French Navy’s blue-water power projection.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T402279 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle Context triple: [French Navy, operatesVessel, aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle]
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A.
Super Étendard aircraft
The Super Étendard aircraft is a French carrier-based strike fighter best known for its Exocet missile attacks during the Falklands War.
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B.
Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers
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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C.
Hiryū-class aircraft carrier
The Hiryū-class aircraft carrier was a class of Imperial Japanese Navy fleet carriers of World War II, exemplified by the carrier Hiryū, known for its role in early Pacific War operations including the Battle of Midway.
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D.
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is a class of U.S. Navy nuclear-powered supercarriers that has formed the backbone of American naval air power since the late 20th century.
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E.
USS Forrestal (CV-59)
USS Forrestal (CV-59) was the United States Navy’s first supercarrier, commissioned in 1955 and named in honor of the first U.S. Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal.
- 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: aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle Target entity description: The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is France’s nuclear-powered flagship and only CATOBAR-equipped carrier, serving as the core of the French Navy’s blue-water power projection.
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A.
Super Étendard aircraft
The Super Étendard aircraft is a French carrier-based strike fighter best known for its Exocet missile attacks during the Falklands War.
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B.
Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers
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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C.
Hiryū-class aircraft carrier
The Hiryū-class aircraft carrier was a class of Imperial Japanese Navy fleet carriers of World War II, exemplified by the carrier Hiryū, known for its role in early Pacific War operations including the Battle of Midway.
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D.
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is a class of U.S. Navy nuclear-powered supercarriers that has formed the backbone of American naval air power since the late 20th century.
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E.
USS Forrestal (CV-59)
USS Forrestal (CV-59) was the United States Navy’s first supercarrier, commissioned in 1955 and named in honor of the first U.S. Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aircraft carrier
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flagship ⓘ nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| aircraftLaunchSystem | CATOBAR ⓘ |
| airDefenseSystem |
Aster 15 surface-to-air missiles
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Crotale CN2 surface-to-air missiles ⓘ |
| airWingPersonnel | approximately 600 ⓘ |
| airWingType | fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft ⓘ |
| allianceParticipation | NATO operations ⓘ |
| arrestingGear | arrestor wires ⓘ |
| beamWaterline | approximately 31.5 metres ⓘ |
| blueWaterCapability | yes ⓘ |
| builder |
Arsenal de Brest
ⓘ
Naval Group ⓘ
surface form:
Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN)
|
| catapultOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| catapultType | steam catapult ⓘ |
| closeInWeaponSystem | 30 mm guns ⓘ |
| commissioned | 2001-05-18 ⓘ |
| constructionSite |
Brest
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surface form:
Brest, France
|
| country | France ⓘ |
| crewComplement | approximately 1,200 ship crew ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | approximately 42,000 tonnes ⓘ |
| draught | approximately 8.5 metres ⓘ |
| flagshipOf | French Navy ⓘ |
| flightDeckWidth | approximately 64.4 metres ⓘ |
| hasNuclearPropulsion | true ⓘ |
| homePort | Toulon ⓘ |
| hullNumber | R91 ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1989-04-14 ⓘ |
| launched | 1994-05-07 ⓘ |
| lengthOverall | approximately 261.5 metres ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | over 27 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Charles de Gaulle
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surface form:
Charles de Gaulle (person)
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| nameLanguage | French ⓘ |
| NATOCallSign | R91 ⓘ |
| numberOfCatapults | 2 ⓘ |
| numberOfReactors | 2 ⓘ |
| operator | French Navy ⓘ |
| primaryRole |
aircraft carrier strike operations
ⓘ
power projection ⓘ |
| propulsionShafts | 2 ⓘ |
| propulsionType | nuclear ⓘ |
| reactorType | K15 pressurized water reactor ⓘ |
| secondaryRole |
command and control
ⓘ
maritime security operations ⓘ |
| shipClass |
aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Charles de Gaulle-class aircraft carrier
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| shipClassType | nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| status | in active service ⓘ |
| totalPersonnel | around 1,800 ⓘ |
| typicalAircraft |
AS365 Dauphin helicopter
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Dassault Rafale ⓘ
surface form:
Dassault Rafale M
Grumman E-2C Hawkeye ⓘ
surface form:
E-2C Hawkeye
NH90 helicopter ⓘ |
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: aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle Description of subject: The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is France’s nuclear-powered flagship and only CATOBAR-equipped carrier, serving as the core of the French Navy’s blue-water power projection.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier
subject surface form:
Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard
aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
→
shipClass
→
aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Charles de Gaulle
this entity surface form:
Charles de Gaulle-class aircraft carrier
this entity surface form:
French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
this entity surface form:
Charles de Gaulle-class
this entity surface form:
Charles de Gaulle-class aircraft carrier
this entity surface form:
French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
this entity surface form:
French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
subject surface form:
Crotale CN2
this entity surface form:
French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
subject surface form:
Crotale CN2
this entity surface form:
Charles de Gaulle carrier battle group