yacht America
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Yacht America is the famed 19th-century racing schooner that won the inaugural America's Cup in 1851, giving the trophy and competition their name.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| yacht America canonical | 3 |
| Yacht America | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10833390 — 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: yacht America Context triple: [New York Yacht Club, owned, yacht America]
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A.
America’s Cup Class
America’s Cup Class is a high-performance yacht design rule used to create the cutting-edge racing boats that compete in the prestigious America’s Cup sailing competition.
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B.
Granma yacht
The Granma yacht is the vessel that carried Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba in 1956, marking the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.
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C.
USA 17 trimaran
USA 17 trimaran is a high-performance, wing-sailed multihull racing yacht that Oracle Team USA campaigned to win the 33rd America’s Cup.
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D.
AC72 catamaran
The AC72 catamaran is a high-performance, wing-sailed racing yacht class designed for extreme speed and used in the America's Cup.
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E.
FJ dinghy
The FJ dinghy is a popular two-person sailing dinghy widely used for collegiate and club racing and training.
- 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: yacht America Target entity description: Yacht America is the famed 19th-century racing schooner that won the inaugural America's Cup in 1851, giving the trophy and competition their name.
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A.
America’s Cup Class
America’s Cup Class is a high-performance yacht design rule used to create the cutting-edge racing boats that compete in the prestigious America’s Cup sailing competition.
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B.
Granma yacht
The Granma yacht is the vessel that carried Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba in 1956, marking the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.
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C.
USA 17 trimaran
USA 17 trimaran is a high-performance, wing-sailed multihull racing yacht that Oracle Team USA campaigned to win the 33rd America’s Cup.
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D.
AC72 catamaran
The AC72 catamaran is a high-performance, wing-sailed racing yacht class designed for extreme speed and used in the America's Cup.
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E.
FJ dinghy
The FJ dinghy is a popular two-person sailing dinghy widely used for collegiate and club racing and training.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic ship
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racing schooner ⓘ sailing yacht ⓘ |
| associatedWith | New York Yacht Club ⓘ |
| competedAgainst | Royal Yacht Squadron yachts ⓘ |
| competitionNamedAfter | America’s Cup ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| depictedIn | maritime paintings ⓘ |
| designedFor | competitive yacht racing ⓘ |
| eventWon |
1851 Royal Yacht Squadron race around the Isle of Wight
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linked to:
Cowes Week
inaugural America’s Cup (1851) ⓘ |
| flag | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | iconic vessel in yachting history ⓘ |
| hasNameVariant |
Schooner America
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Yacht America ⓘ
linked to:
yacht America
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| hasShipType | schooner ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Victorian era ⓘ |
| influenced | development of international yacht racing ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1851 ⓘ |
| legacy |
established prestige of transatlantic yacht racing
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symbol of early American success in international sport ⓘ |
| namedAfter | America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
origin of the America’s Cup sailing competition name
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origin of the America’s Cup trophy name ⓘ winning the 1851 race around the Isle of Wight ⓘ |
| operatedIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| ownerAtTimeOf1851Race | syndicate of New York Yacht Club members ⓘ |
| primaryUse | racing ⓘ |
| raceLocation | Isle of Wight ⓘ |
| raceOrganizer | Royal Yacht Squadron ⓘ |
| sailPlan | schooner rig ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
America’s Cup histories
ⓘ
nautical histories ⓘ |
| trophyNamedAfter |
America’s Cup trophy
ⓘ
linked to:
America’s Cup
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| trophyOrigin | America’s Cup ⓘ |
| yearLaunched | 1851 ⓘ |
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: yacht America Description of subject: Yacht America is the famed 19th-century racing schooner that won the inaugural America's Cup in 1851, giving the trophy and competition their name.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.