HMS Peacock
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HMS Peacock was a British Royal Navy brig-sloop of the War of 1812 era, best known for being defeated and sunk in battle by the American frigate USS Hornet under Captain James Lawrence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Peacock canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5490412 — 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 Peacock Context triple: [James Lawrence, shipSunkOrCaptured, HMS Peacock]
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A.
HMS Elephant
HMS Elephant was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801.
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B.
HMS Tartar
HMS Tartar was a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer that saw extensive service during the Second World War, including operations in the Arctic, Atlantic, and Mediterranean.
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C.
HMS Eaglet
HMS Eaglet is a Royal Naval Reserve shore establishment in Liverpool that serves as the training and administrative base for reservists in the region.
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D.
HMS Minotaur
HMS Minotaur was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for her distinguished service in major late 18th-century naval battles against France, including the Battle of the Nile.
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E.
HMS Cossack
HMS Cossack was a British Royal Navy destroyer best known for its daring 1940 boarding of the German tanker Altmark in Norwegian waters to free hundreds of Allied prisoners.
- 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 Peacock Target entity description: HMS Peacock was a British Royal Navy brig-sloop of the War of 1812 era, best known for being defeated and sunk in battle by the American frigate USS Hornet under Captain James Lawrence.
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A.
HMS Elephant
HMS Elephant was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801.
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B.
HMS Tartar
HMS Tartar was a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer that saw extensive service during the Second World War, including operations in the Arctic, Atlantic, and Mediterranean.
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C.
HMS Eaglet
HMS Eaglet is a Royal Naval Reserve shore establishment in Liverpool that serves as the training and administrative base for reservists in the region.
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D.
HMS Minotaur
HMS Minotaur was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for her distinguished service in major late 18th-century naval battles against France, including the Battle of the Nile.
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E.
HMS Cossack
HMS Cossack was a British Royal Navy destroyer best known for its daring 1940 boarding of the German tanker Altmark in Norwegian waters to free hundreds of Allied prisoners.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy warship
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brig-sloop ⓘ |
| armedService | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| belligerentSide | British side in the War of 1812 ⓘ |
| causeOfLoss | enemy action ⓘ |
| conflict | War of 1812 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| engagement | naval action with USS Hornet ⓘ |
| era | War of 1812 era ⓘ |
| fate | sunk in battle ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| lostIn | naval battle ⓘ |
| lostTo | United States Navy ⓘ |
| navalBranch |
British Royal Navy
ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Navy
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| notableFor |
being defeated by USS Hornet
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being sunk in action against USS Hornet ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| opponentCommander | James Lawrence ⓘ |
| opponentNation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| opponentShip | USS Hornet ⓘ |
| service | British Royal Navy service ⓘ |
| shipType | brig-sloop ⓘ |
| status |
lost at sea
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wrecked ⓘ |
| sunkBy | USS Hornet ⓘ |
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: HMS Peacock Description of subject: HMS Peacock was a British Royal Navy brig-sloop of the War of 1812 era, best known for being defeated and sunk in battle by the American frigate USS Hornet under Captain James Lawrence.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.