HMS Bellona
E643527
HMS Bellona is a fictional Royal Navy ship of the line featured in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin series of historical naval novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Bellona canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6246994 — 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 Bellona Context triple: [Jack Aubrey, commands, HMS Bellona]
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A.
HMS Bellerophon
HMS Bellerophon was a British Royal Navy ship of the line famed for her prominent role in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard her in 1815.
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B.
HMS Bellipotent
HMS Bellipotent is the fictional British warship that serves as the primary naval setting in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd, Sailor."
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C.
HMS Levant
HMS Levant was a British Royal Navy warship of the Age of Sail, best known as one of the vessels captured by the American frigate USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
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D.
HMS Ramillies
HMS Ramillies was a British Royal Navy ship of the line that served prominently during the mid-18th century, including early actions of the Seven Years' War.
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E.
HMS Hermione
HMS Hermione was a British Royal Navy Dido-class light cruiser that served in the Mediterranean during World War II before being sunk by a German U-boat in 1942.
- 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 Bellona Target entity description: HMS Bellona is a fictional Royal Navy ship of the line featured in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin series of historical naval novels.
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A.
HMS Bellerophon
HMS Bellerophon was a British Royal Navy ship of the line famed for her prominent role in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard her in 1815.
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B.
HMS Bellipotent
HMS Bellipotent is the fictional British warship that serves as the primary naval setting in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd, Sailor."
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C.
HMS Levant
HMS Levant was a British Royal Navy warship of the Age of Sail, best known as one of the vessels captured by the American frigate USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
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D.
HMS Ramillies
HMS Ramillies was a British Royal Navy ship of the line that served prominently during the mid-18th century, including early actions of the Seven Years' War.
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E.
HMS Hermione
HMS Hermione was a British Royal Navy Dido-class light cruiser that served in the Mediterranean during World War II before being sunk by a German U-boat in 1942.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional Royal Navy ship
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fictional ship ⓘ ship of the line ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Aubrey–Maturin series
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Patrick O’Brian’s naval novels ⓘ |
| authorCreatedBy |
Patrick O’Brian
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linked to:
Patrick O'Brian
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| commandedBy | Jack Aubrey ⓘ |
| countryOfService | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Aubrey–Maturin series ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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naval fiction ⓘ |
| hasCaptain | Jack Aubrey ⓘ |
| hasCrewMember | Stephen Maturin ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | HMS Bellona (1760) ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
Napoleonic Wars
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early 19th century ⓘ |
| shipType | ship of the line ⓘ |
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 Bellona Description of subject: HMS Bellona is a fictional Royal Navy ship of the line featured in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin series of historical naval novels.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.