HMS Royal Sovereign
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HMS Royal Sovereign was a prominent British Royal Navy ship of the line, best known for its leading role at the Battle of Trafalgar under Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Royal Sovereign canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10664920 — 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 Royal Sovereign Context triple: [Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, shipCommanded, HMS Royal Sovereign]
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HMS Royal Sovereign
HMS Royal Sovereign was a British Royal Navy Revenge-class battleship that served prominently during both World Wars, particularly in Mediterranean operations against the Italian fleet.
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B.
HMS Invincible
HMS Invincible was a pioneering British battlecruiser of the early 20th century, best known for her dramatic loss during World War I at the Battle of Jutland.
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C.
HMS Royal George
HMS Royal George was a prominent 18th-century Royal Navy ship of the line, best known as Admiral Edward Hawke’s flagship during major naval engagements such as the Battle of Quiberon Bay.
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D.
HMS Jupiter
HMS Jupiter was a British J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served in World War II and was lost during operations in the Pacific.
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E.
HMS Iron Duke
HMS Iron Duke was a British Iron Duke-class battleship that served as Admiral Sir John Jellicoe’s flagship at the Battle of Jutland during World War I.
- 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 Royal Sovereign Target entity description: HMS Royal Sovereign was a prominent British Royal Navy ship of the line, best known for its leading role at the Battle of Trafalgar under Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood.
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A.
HMS Royal Sovereign
HMS Royal Sovereign was a British Royal Navy Revenge-class battleship that served prominently during both World Wars, particularly in Mediterranean operations against the Italian fleet.
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B.
HMS Invincible
HMS Invincible was a pioneering British battlecruiser of the early 20th century, best known for her dramatic loss during World War I at the Battle of Jutland.
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C.
HMS Royal George
HMS Royal George was a prominent 18th-century Royal Navy ship of the line, best known as Admiral Edward Hawke’s flagship during major naval engagements such as the Battle of Quiberon Bay.
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D.
HMS Jupiter
HMS Jupiter was a British J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served in World War II and was lost during operations in the Pacific.
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E.
HMS Iron Duke
HMS Iron Duke was a British Iron Duke-class battleship that served as Admiral Sir John Jellicoe’s flagship at the Battle of Jutland during World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy warship
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ship of the line ⓘ |
| allegiance | Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| armamentType | smoothbore muzzle-loading cannon ⓘ |
| battleHonour | Trafalgar 1805 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| beam | approximately 52 feet ⓘ |
| builder | Royal Dockyard Plymouth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtAt | Plymouth Dockyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| class | first-rate ship of the line ⓘ |
| commandedBy |
Cuthbert Collingwood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edward Rotheram NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1787 ⓘ |
| conflict | War of the Third Coalition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| crewComplement | around 800 men ⓘ |
| displacement | approximately 2200 tons burthen ⓘ |
| engagedNationality | Spanish Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engagedShip | Santa Ana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enteredService | late 18th century ⓘ |
| era | Age of Sail ⓘ |
| fate | broken up ⓘ |
| flagshipOf | Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gunArrangement | three-decker ⓘ |
| gunDecks | three ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | wood ⓘ |
| launched | 1786 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Plymouth Dockyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | approximately 186 feet (gundeck) ⓘ |
| locationDuringBattleOfTrafalgar | off Cape Trafalgar, Spain GENERATED ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
British monarchy
NERFINISHED
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Royal Sovereign (title) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navalFleet | British fleet at Trafalgar ⓘ |
| notableFor |
flagship of Collingwood at Trafalgar
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leading the lee column at Trafalgar ⓘ |
| numberOfGuns | 100 ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| propulsion | sail ⓘ |
| rate | first rate ⓘ |
| rigging | ship-rigged ⓘ |
| roleAtBattleOfTrafalgar |
first ship to break the enemy line
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led the lee column ⓘ |
| scrapped | 1820s ⓘ |
| scrappedAt | Plymouth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| tookPartIn |
Battle of Trafalgar
NERFINISHED
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French Revolutionary Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ Napoleonic Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: HMS Royal Sovereign Description of subject: HMS Royal Sovereign was a prominent British Royal Navy ship of the line, best known for its leading role at the Battle of Trafalgar under Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William Cornwallis
subject surface form:
Cuthbert Collingwood