KNM Ula
E512480
KNM Ula is a Royal Norwegian Navy diesel-electric attack submarine that serves as the lead boat of Norway’s modern Ula-class fleet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KNM Ula canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5342000 — 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: KNM Ula Context triple: [Ula-class submarine, firstUnitCommissioned, KNM Ula]
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A.
Turkana Boy fossil
The Turkana Boy fossil is an exceptionally well-preserved nearly complete skeleton of a Homo erectus (or Homo ergaster) youth from about 1.6 million years ago that has provided crucial insights into early human growth and anatomy.
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B.
Naledi
Naledi is a residential township neighborhood within Soweto, a large urban area southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa.
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C.
Australopithecus africanus
Australopithecus africanus is an early hominin species from southern Africa, dating to about 3–2 million years ago, that exhibits a mix of ape-like and human-like traits and is important for understanding human evolution.
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D.
Paranthropus robustus
Paranthropus robustus is an extinct robust australopithecine hominin species from southern Africa, characterized by a heavy jaw, large teeth, and adaptations for powerful chewing.
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E.
Dmanisi
Dmanisi is an archaeological site and town in southern Georgia renowned for yielding some of the earliest known hominin fossils outside Africa.
- 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: KNM Ula Target entity description: KNM Ula is a Royal Norwegian Navy diesel-electric attack submarine that serves as the lead boat of Norway’s modern Ula-class fleet.
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A.
Turkana Boy fossil
The Turkana Boy fossil is an exceptionally well-preserved nearly complete skeleton of a Homo erectus (or Homo ergaster) youth from about 1.6 million years ago that has provided crucial insights into early human growth and anatomy.
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B.
Naledi
Naledi is a residential township neighborhood within Soweto, a large urban area southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa.
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C.
Australopithecus africanus
Australopithecus africanus is an early hominin species from southern Africa, dating to about 3–2 million years ago, that exhibits a mix of ape-like and human-like traits and is important for understanding human evolution.
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D.
Paranthropus robustus
Paranthropus robustus is an extinct robust australopithecine hominin species from southern Africa, characterized by a heavy jaw, large teeth, and adaptations for powerful chewing.
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E.
Dmanisi
Dmanisi is an archaeological site and town in southern Georgia renowned for yielding some of the earliest known hominin fossils outside Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military vessel
ⓘ
submarine ⓘ |
| armamentType | torpedoes ⓘ |
| class |
Ula-class submarine
ⓘ
linked to:
Ula-class submarines
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| country | Norway ⓘ |
| countryOfService | Norway ⓘ |
| fleet | Ula-class ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Norwegian submarine fleet
ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Norwegian Navy
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| leadShipOf | Ula-class ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Navy ⓘ |
| militaryDomain | naval warfare ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Ula ⓘ |
| navalForce | Royal Norwegian Navy ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Norwegian Navy ⓘ |
| powerType | diesel-electric ⓘ |
| primaryEnvironment | underwater ⓘ |
| propulsion | diesel-electric ⓘ |
| role | attack submarine ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Norwegian Navy ⓘ |
| status | in service ⓘ |
| type |
attack submarine
ⓘ
diesel-electric attack submarine ⓘ |
| usedBy | Norway ⓘ |
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: KNM Ula Description of subject: KNM Ula is a Royal Norwegian Navy diesel-electric attack submarine that serves as the lead boat of Norway’s modern Ula-class fleet.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ula-class submarines