convoy JW 55B
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Convoy JW 55B was an Arctic World War II Allied merchant convoy sailing to the Soviet Union whose movements helped draw out and expose the German battleship Scharnhorst, leading to its destruction at the Battle of the North Cape.
All labels observed (1)
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| convoy JW 55B canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6594762 — 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: convoy JW 55B Context triple: [Battle of the North Cape, operationContext, convoy JW 55B]
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Convoy JW 51B
Convoy JW 51B was an Arctic World War II Allied merchant convoy sailing to the Soviet Union that became the focus of German naval attacks during the Battle of the Barents Sea.
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Convoy WS 21S
Convoy WS 21S was the British World War II naval convoy more widely known as Operation Pedestal, a critical 1942 mission to resupply the besieged island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
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German tanker Altmark
The German tanker Altmark was a World War II-era naval auxiliary ship of Nazi Germany, best known for its role in the 1940 Altmark Incident involving the rescue of British prisoners in Norwegian waters.
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German submarine U-75
German submarine U-75 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that operated during World War II, conducting Atlantic patrols and commerce raiding before being sunk in 1941.
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E.
Sinking of Blücher
The Sinking of Blücher refers to the dramatic 1940 World War II naval engagement in the Oslofjord where Norwegian coastal defenses destroyed the German heavy cruiser Blücher, delaying the German invasion of Norway.
- 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: convoy JW 55B Target entity description: Convoy JW 55B was an Arctic World War II Allied merchant convoy sailing to the Soviet Union whose movements helped draw out and expose the German battleship Scharnhorst, leading to its destruction at the Battle of the North Cape.
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A.
Convoy JW 51B
Convoy JW 51B was an Arctic World War II Allied merchant convoy sailing to the Soviet Union that became the focus of German naval attacks during the Battle of the Barents Sea.
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B.
Convoy WS 21S
Convoy WS 21S was the British World War II naval convoy more widely known as Operation Pedestal, a critical 1942 mission to resupply the besieged island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
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C.
German tanker Altmark
The German tanker Altmark was a World War II-era naval auxiliary ship of Nazi Germany, best known for its role in the 1940 Altmark Incident involving the rescue of British prisoners in Norwegian waters.
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D.
German submarine U-75
German submarine U-75 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that operated during World War II, conducting Atlantic patrols and commerce raiding before being sunk in 1941.
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E.
Sinking of Blücher
The Sinking of Blücher refers to the dramatic 1940 World War II naval engagement in the Oslofjord where Norwegian coastal defenses destroyed the German heavy cruiser Blücher, delaying the German invasion of Norway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: convoy JW 55B Description of subject: Convoy JW 55B was an Arctic World War II Allied merchant convoy sailing to the Soviet Union whose movements helped draw out and expose the German battleship Scharnhorst, leading to its destruction at the Battle of the North Cape.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.