Swan (ship)
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Swan was one of the support vessels in Sir Francis Drake’s famed 16th-century circumnavigation of the globe.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swan (ship) canonical | 1 |
| Swan ship | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6282248 — 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: Swan (ship) Context triple: [Francis Drake’s circumnavigation, shipUsed, Swan (ship)]
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A.
Trudy Ship
Trudy Ship is a film editor best known for her work on the drama "Mr. Holland's Opus."
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B.
Tune ship
The Tune ship is a well-preserved Viking Age burial ship discovered in Norway, notable for its early excavation and display as a key example of Scandinavian seafaring culture.
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C.
Welcome (ship)
Welcome (ship) was the vessel that carried William Penn and other early Quaker settlers to Pennsylvania in 1682, playing a key role in the colony’s founding.
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D.
Sooner Schooner
The Sooner Schooner is a covered wagon pulled by ponies that serves as the University of Oklahoma’s iconic game-day mascot, symbolizing the state’s pioneer and land run heritage.
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E.
HMS Serapis
HMS Serapis was a British Royal Navy warship best known for its capture by John Paul Jones’s Bonhomme Richard during a fierce 1779 naval battle off Flamborough Head in the American Revolutionary War.
- 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: Swan (ship) Target entity description: Swan was one of the support vessels in Sir Francis Drake’s famed 16th-century circumnavigation of the globe.
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A.
Trudy Ship
Trudy Ship is a film editor best known for her work on the drama "Mr. Holland's Opus."
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B.
Tune ship
The Tune ship is a well-preserved Viking Age burial ship discovered in Norway, notable for its early excavation and display as a key example of Scandinavian seafaring culture.
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C.
Welcome (ship)
Welcome (ship) was the vessel that carried William Penn and other early Quaker settlers to Pennsylvania in 1682, playing a key role in the colony’s founding.
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D.
Sooner Schooner
The Sooner Schooner is a covered wagon pulled by ponies that serves as the University of Oklahoma’s iconic game-day mascot, symbolizing the state’s pioneer and land run heritage.
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E.
HMS Serapis
HMS Serapis was a British Royal Navy warship best known for its capture by John Paul Jones’s Bonhomme Richard during a fierce 1779 naval battle off Flamborough Head in the American Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ship
ⓘ
support vessel ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Golden Hind
ⓘ
Sir Francis Drake ⓘ
linked to:
Francis Drake
|
| associatedWithMonarch | Elizabeth I of England ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| era |
Elizabethan era
ⓘ
linked to:
English Renaissance
|
| flag | English flag ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature | served as auxiliary vessel rather than primary flagship ⓘ |
| hasRole |
supply ship
ⓘ
support ship ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the support vessels in Drake’s circumnavigation ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Sir Francis Drake
ⓘ
linked to:
Francis Drake
|
| operatedInBodyOfWater | Strait of Magellan ⓘ |
| operatedInCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| operatedInOcean |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Indian Ocean ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| operatedInPeriod |
Age of Discovery
ⓘ
linked to:
Age of Exploration
|
| participatedIn | Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe ⓘ |
| partOf |
Drake’s circumnavigation fleet
ⓘ
linked to:
Francis Drake’s circumnavigation
English expeditionary fleet ⓘ |
| propulsion | sail ⓘ |
| usedFor |
logistical support
ⓘ
supporting circumnavigation voyage ⓘ transport of provisions ⓘ |
| vesselType | sailing ship ⓘ |
| voyageType | circumnavigation ⓘ |
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: Swan (ship) Description of subject: Swan was one of the support vessels in Sir Francis Drake’s famed 16th-century circumnavigation of the globe.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Swan (ship)