Formidable
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Formidable was a French ship of the line that fought in the Napoleonic Wars and was captured by the British Royal Navy at the Battle of Cape Ortegal in 1805.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Formidable canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7359273 — 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: Formidable Context triple: [Battle of Cape Ortegal, FrenchShips, Formidable]
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A.
Strong
Strong is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, academia, and the arts.
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B.
Courageous
"Courageous" is a song by Common from his album *A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 1*, reflecting the record’s socially conscious and uplifting hip-hop style.
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C.
Courageous
Courageous is a famed 12-metre class racing yacht that successfully defended the America's Cup for the United States in the 1970s.
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D.
Moody
Moody is a surname of English origin most famously associated with the 19th-century American evangelist Dwight L. Moody.
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E.
Resolute
Resolute is a small Inuit hamlet in Nunavut, Canada, known as one of the northernmost communities in the country and a key gateway for High Arctic research and travel.
- 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: Formidable Target entity description: Formidable was a French ship of the line that fought in the Napoleonic Wars and was captured by the British Royal Navy at the Battle of Cape Ortegal in 1805.
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A.
Strong
Strong is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, academia, and the arts.
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B.
Courageous
"Courageous" is a song by Common from his album *A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 1*, reflecting the record’s socially conscious and uplifting hip-hop style.
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C.
Courageous
Courageous is a famed 12-metre class racing yacht that successfully defended the America's Cup for the United States in the 1970s.
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D.
Moody
Moody is a surname of English origin most famously associated with the 19th-century American evangelist Dwight L. Moody.
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E.
Resolute
Resolute is a small Inuit hamlet in Nunavut, Canada, known as one of the northernmost communities in the country and a key gateway for High Arctic research and travel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
sailing ship
ⓘ
ship of the line ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| armamentType | cannon ⓘ |
| belligerent | France ⓘ |
| belligerentAfterCapture | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| capturedBy | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| capturedDuring | War of the Third Coalition ⓘ |
| capturedIn | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| conflict | Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| dateOfCapture | 1805 ⓘ |
| era | early 19th century ⓘ |
| event | Battle of Cape Ortegal ⓘ |
| hasHullType | wooden hull ⓘ |
| hasPropulsionType | sail ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | naval forces ⓘ |
| namedAfter | French word "formidable" ⓘ |
| navalTacticContext | line of battle ⓘ |
| operator | French Navy ⓘ |
| partOf | French battle fleet ⓘ |
| serviceRole | ship of the line ⓘ |
| usedBy | French Navy ⓘ |
| usedByAfterCapture | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Age of Sail naval warfare
ⓘ
linked to:
Age of Sail
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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: Formidable Description of subject: Formidable was a French ship of the line that fought in the Napoleonic Wars and was captured by the British Royal Navy at the Battle of Cape Ortegal in 1805.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.