HMS Ocean
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HMS Ocean was a British Royal Navy pre-dreadnought battleship that served in the early 20th century, notably seeing action during World War I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Ocean canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3726962 — 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: HMS Ocean Context triple: [Dardanelles naval operations, involvedVessel, HMS Ocean]
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A.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard is a British Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine that serves as part of the United Kingdom’s strategic nuclear deterrent force.
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B.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the decisive 1798 Battle of the Nile in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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C.
HMS Duke of York
HMS Duke of York was a British King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that served prominently in World War II, including in Arctic convoy operations and the Battle of the North Cape.
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D.
HMS Agincourt
HMS Agincourt is a Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Astute class, designed for stealthy intelligence gathering, anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare, and precision land-attack missions.
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E.
HMS Britannia
HMS Britannia was a 19th-century Royal Navy training ship that served as the principal officer cadet training establishment before being replaced by the shore-based Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth.
- 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: HMS Ocean Target entity description: HMS Ocean was a British Royal Navy pre-dreadnought battleship that served in the early 20th century, notably seeing action during World War I.
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A.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard is a British Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine that serves as part of the United Kingdom’s strategic nuclear deterrent force.
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B.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the decisive 1798 Battle of the Nile in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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C.
HMS Duke of York
HMS Duke of York was a British King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that served prominently in World War II, including in Arctic convoy operations and the Battle of the North Cape.
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D.
HMS Agincourt
HMS Agincourt is a Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Astute class, designed for stealthy intelligence gathering, anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare, and precision land-attack missions.
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E.
HMS Britannia
HMS Britannia was a 19th-century Royal Navy training ship that served as the principal officer cadet training establishment before being replaced by the shore-based Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy warship
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pre-dreadnought battleship ⓘ |
| armament |
12 × 6-inch secondary guns
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4 × 12-inch main guns ⓘ smaller quick-firing guns ⓘ torpedo tubes ⓘ |
| armor | Krupp steel belt armor ⓘ |
| beam | about 74 feet ⓘ |
| builder | Devonport Dockyard ⓘ |
| causeOfLoss | mine ⓘ |
| class | Canopus-class battleship ⓘ |
| completed | 1900 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement | approximately 680 officers and men ⓘ |
| dateOfSinking | 1915 ⓘ |
| displacement | approximately 13,150 tons normal ⓘ |
| era | pre-dreadnought era ⓘ |
| fate | sunk ⓘ |
| followedBy | Formidable-class battleship ⓘ |
| gunLayout | two twin 12-inch turrets ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1897 ⓘ |
| launched | 1900 ⓘ |
| length | about 421 feet ⓘ |
| locationOfSinking | Dardanelles ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Ocean ⓘ |
| navalArchitectureFeature | reduced armor compared to earlier Royal Navy battleships for higher speed ⓘ |
| navalTechnologyGeneration | pre-dreadnought battleship generation ⓘ |
| notableEvent | participated in early operations of the Dardanelles Campaign in 1915 ⓘ |
| operation |
Dardanelles Campaign
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linked to:
Dardanelles naval operations
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| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| precededBy | Majestic-class battleship ⓘ |
| propulsion |
Belleville boilers
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triple-expansion steam engines ⓘ |
| secondaryBatteryLayout | casemate-mounted 6-inch guns ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | 1900 ⓘ |
| smokeStackCount | two funnels ⓘ |
| status | war loss ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Dardanelles
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Mediterranean Sea ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| topSpeed | approximately 18 knots ⓘ |
| usedBy |
British Empire naval forces
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linked to:
British Empire armed forces
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| usedInRole |
fleet battleship
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shore bombardment ship ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: HMS Ocean Description of subject: HMS Ocean was a British Royal Navy pre-dreadnought battleship that served in the early 20th century, notably seeing action during World War I.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.