HMS Dolphin
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HMS Dolphin was an 18th-century Royal Navy ship best known for its role in early Pacific exploration voyages, including the circumnavigation led by Samuel Wallis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Dolphin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7528425 — 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 Dolphin Context triple: [Samuel Wallis, shipCommanded, HMS Dolphin]
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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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B.
HMS Sirius
HMS Sirius was the Royal Navy warship that served as the flagship of the First Fleet, leading the establishment of the first British colony in Australia in 1788.
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C.
HMS Obedient
HMS Obedient was a Royal Navy destroyer that served during World War II, notably participating in Arctic convoy operations against German naval forces.
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D.
HMS Morne Fortunee
HMS Morne Fortunee was a Royal Navy warship that served during the Napoleonic Wars, notably taking part in major naval engagements in the Caribbean.
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E.
HMS Captain
HMS Captain was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy, notable for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797.
- 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 Dolphin Target entity description: HMS Dolphin was an 18th-century Royal Navy ship best known for its role in early Pacific exploration voyages, including the circumnavigation led by Samuel Wallis.
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A.
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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B.
HMS Sirius
HMS Sirius was the Royal Navy warship that served as the flagship of the First Fleet, leading the establishment of the first British colony in Australia in 1788.
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C.
HMS Obedient
HMS Obedient was a Royal Navy destroyer that served during World War II, notably participating in Arctic convoy operations against German naval forces.
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D.
HMS Morne Fortunee
HMS Morne Fortunee was a Royal Navy warship that served during the Napoleonic Wars, notably taking part in major naval engagements in the Caribbean.
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E.
HMS Captain
HMS Captain was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy, notable for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy ship
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exploration ship ⓘ sixth-rate frigate ⓘ |
| achievement |
completed a circumnavigation under John Byron
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completed a circumnavigation under Samuel Wallis ⓘ one of the first British ships to visit Tahiti ⓘ |
| affiliation | Royal Navy Pacific exploration program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| armament | 24 guns ⓘ |
| brokenUp | late 18th century ⓘ |
| builder | Royal Dockyard, Deptford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| class | 24-gun sixth-rate ⓘ |
| commandedBy |
James Mayne
NERFINISHED
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John Byron NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Wallis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1751 ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| era | 18th century ⓘ |
| exploredRegion |
Pacific Ocean
NERFINISHED
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Polynesia NERFINISHED ⓘ South Pacific NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fate | broken up ⓘ |
| flag | White Ensign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gunDecks | single-deck ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Age of Discovery in the Pacific
NERFINISHED
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Age of Sail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launched | 1751 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | dolphin ⓘ |
| navalRole |
exploration
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surveying ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| notableFor |
circumnavigation of the globe
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early Pacific exploration ⓘ voyage under Samuel Wallis ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| portOfRegistry | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| status | decommissioned ⓘ |
| tonnage | approximately 260 tons burthen ⓘ |
| tookPartIn |
Byron circumnavigation
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Wallis Pacific voyage ⓘ global circumnavigation ⓘ |
| visited |
Falkland Islands region
NERFINISHED
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Magellan Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ Tahiti NERFINISHED ⓘ Tuamotu Archipelago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voyageEnd | 1768 Pacific voyage ⓘ |
| voyageStart | 1766 Pacific voyage ⓘ |
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: HMS Dolphin Description of subject: HMS Dolphin was an 18th-century Royal Navy ship best known for its role in early Pacific exploration voyages, including the circumnavigation led by Samuel Wallis.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.