L’Étoile (ship)
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L’Étoile was a French naval vessel that served as one of the companion ships on Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s pioneering 18th-century circumnavigation of the globe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| L’Étoile (ship) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7151968 — 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: L’Étoile (ship) Context triple: [Louis Antoine de Bougainville, commanded, L’Étoile (ship)]
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A.
French ship Brave
The French ship Brave was a French naval vessel that took part in the early 19th-century Napoleonic Wars, notably fighting in the Battle of San Domingo.
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B.
French ship Jupiter
French ship Jupiter was a French Navy warship that served during the Napoleonic Wars and took part in major naval engagements against the British, including the Battle of San Domingo.
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C.
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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D.
French flagship L’Orient
The French flagship L’Orient was a massive 120-gun ship of the line that famously exploded and sank during the Battle of the Nile in 1798, becoming one of the most dramatic naval losses of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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E.
French ship Alexandre
French ship Alexandre was a French Navy warship that fought in the early 19th-century naval engagement known as the Battle of San Domingo.
- 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: L’Étoile (ship) Target entity description: L’Étoile was a French naval vessel that served as one of the companion ships on Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s pioneering 18th-century circumnavigation of the globe.
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A.
French ship Brave
The French ship Brave was a French naval vessel that took part in the early 19th-century Napoleonic Wars, notably fighting in the Battle of San Domingo.
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B.
French ship Jupiter
French ship Jupiter was a French Navy warship that served during the Napoleonic Wars and took part in major naval engagements against the British, including the Battle of San Domingo.
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C.
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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D.
French flagship L’Orient
The French flagship L’Orient was a massive 120-gun ship of the line that famously exploded and sank during the Battle of the Nile in 1798, becoming one of the most dramatic naval losses of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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E.
French ship Alexandre
French ship Alexandre was a French Navy warship that fought in the early 19th-century naval engagement known as the Battle of San Domingo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French naval vessel
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exploration ship ⓘ ship ⓘ |
| associatedPerson | Louis Antoine de Bougainville ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Age of Enlightenment exploration
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French maritime history ⓘ |
| commandedDuringExpeditionBy | Louis Antoine de Bougainville ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| hasCompanionShip |
Boudeuse (ship)
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linked to:
La Boudeuse (ship)
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| languageOfName | French ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | The Star ⓘ |
| notableFor | participation in one of the first French circumnavigations ⓘ |
| operatedBy | French Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Bougainville expedition to the Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| partOf | Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s circumnavigation of the globe ⓘ |
| role | companion ship ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| usedFor |
exploration
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scientific expedition ⓘ |
| vesselType | sailing ship ⓘ |
| visitedRegion |
Pacific Ocean
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South Pacific ⓘ around-the-world route ⓘ |
| voyageStartCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| voyageType | circumnavigation of the Earth ⓘ |
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: L’Étoile (ship) Description of subject: L’Étoile was a French naval vessel that served as one of the companion ships on Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s pioneering 18th-century circumnavigation of the globe.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.