Philadelphia-class frigate
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The Philadelphia-class frigate was a class of late-18th-century United States Navy sailing warships designed for speed and maneuverability in coastal and blue-water operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philadelphia-class frigate canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8010400 — 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: Philadelphia-class frigate Context triple: [USS Philadelphia, shipClass, Philadelphia-class frigate]
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A.
United States-class frigate
The United States-class frigate was a class of large, powerful sailing frigates built for the early United States Navy in the late 18th century, exemplifying the young nation's ambitions for a strong blue-water fleet.
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B.
Hancock-class frigate
The Hancock-class frigate was a class of late 18th-century sailing warships of the Continental Navy, designed as relatively large, fast, and heavily armed frigates for use during the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Guerriere-class frigate
The Guerriere-class frigate was a class of early 19th-century United States Navy sailing frigates designed for blue-water operations and armed with a heavy battery of guns for ship-to-ship combat.
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D.
Constitution-class frigate
The Constitution-class frigate was a class of large, heavily armed wooden-hulled sailing warships built for the early United States Navy, renowned for their durability and success in the War of 1812.
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E.
Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
The Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate is a class of guided-missile frigates built for the U.S. Navy during the Cold War, designed primarily for anti-submarine and escort duties and later widely exported to allied navies.
- 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: Philadelphia-class frigate Target entity description: The Philadelphia-class frigate was a class of late-18th-century United States Navy sailing warships designed for speed and maneuverability in coastal and blue-water operations.
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A.
United States-class frigate
The United States-class frigate was a class of large, powerful sailing frigates built for the early United States Navy in the late 18th century, exemplifying the young nation's ambitions for a strong blue-water fleet.
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B.
Hancock-class frigate
The Hancock-class frigate was a class of late 18th-century sailing warships of the Continental Navy, designed as relatively large, fast, and heavily armed frigates for use during the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Guerriere-class frigate
The Guerriere-class frigate was a class of early 19th-century United States Navy sailing frigates designed for blue-water operations and armed with a heavy battery of guns for ship-to-ship combat.
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D.
Constitution-class frigate
The Constitution-class frigate was a class of large, heavily armed wooden-hulled sailing warships built for the early United States Navy, renowned for their durability and success in the War of 1812.
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E.
Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
The Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate is a class of guided-missile frigates built for the U.S. Navy during the Cold War, designed primarily for anti-submarine and escort duties and later widely exported to allied navies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
sailing frigate class
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warship class ⓘ |
| armamentType | cannon ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| designedBy | United States naval architects ⓘ |
| designedFor |
blue-water operations
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coastal operations ⓘ high-speed sailing ⓘ long-range cruising ⓘ maneuverability ⓘ speed ⓘ |
| era | Age of Sail ⓘ |
| hasHullMaterial | wood ⓘ |
| hasRiggingType | square-rigged ⓘ |
| navalRole | cruiser-type frigate ⓘ |
| navalWarfareType | sailing-era naval warfare ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| propulsion | sail ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| shipType | frigate ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 18th century ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commerce protection
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escort duty ⓘ fleet screening ⓘ naval patrol ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | post–American Revolutionary War era naval operations ⓘ |
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: Philadelphia-class frigate Description of subject: The Philadelphia-class frigate was a class of late-18th-century United States Navy sailing warships designed for speed and maneuverability in coastal and blue-water operations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.