Cherokee-class brig-sloop
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The Cherokee-class brig-sloop was a class of small, two-masted Royal Navy warships of the early 19th century, best known for including HMS Beagle, the survey vessel that carried Charles Darwin on his famous voyage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cherokee-class brig-sloop canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11584237 — 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: Cherokee-class brig-sloop Context triple: [HMS Beagle, shipClass, Cherokee-class brig-sloop]
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A.
Naval Consolidated Brig Charleston
Naval Consolidated Brig Charleston is a U.S. military correctional facility that houses and rehabilitates service members and certain federal detainees under Navy administration.
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B.
USS Guerriere
USS Guerriere was a U.S. Navy frigate of the early 19th century, notable for its service during the post-War of 1812 era under prominent American naval officers.
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C.
Aurora cruiser
The Aurora cruiser is a historic Russian warship famed for its role in the 1917 October Revolution and preserved today as a museum ship in Saint Petersburg.
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D.
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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E.
Patriot (brig)
Patriot (brig) was an American coastal schooner-turned-privateer best known as the vessel on which Theodosia Burr Alston mysteriously disappeared at sea in 1813.
- 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: Cherokee-class brig-sloop Target entity description: The Cherokee-class brig-sloop was a class of small, two-masted Royal Navy warships of the early 19th century, best known for including HMS Beagle, the survey vessel that carried Charles Darwin on his famous voyage.
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A.
Naval Consolidated Brig Charleston
Naval Consolidated Brig Charleston is a U.S. military correctional facility that houses and rehabilitates service members and certain federal detainees under Navy administration.
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B.
USS Guerriere
USS Guerriere was a U.S. Navy frigate of the early 19th century, notable for its service during the post-War of 1812 era under prominent American naval officers.
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C.
Aurora cruiser
The Aurora cruiser is a historic Russian warship famed for its role in the 1917 October Revolution and preserved today as a museum ship in Saint Petersburg.
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D.
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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E.
Patriot (brig)
Patriot (brig) was an American coastal schooner-turned-privateer best known as the vessel on which Theodosia Burr Alston mysteriously disappeared at sea in 1813.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy ship class
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brig-sloop class ⓘ warship class ⓘ |
| armamentType | cannon ⓘ |
| associatedEvent |
voyage of the Beagle
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linked to:
HMS Beagle second survey expedition
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| associatedWith | Charles Darwin ⓘ |
| classNameOrigin | HMS Cherokee ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial | wood ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| design | small two-masted warship ⓘ |
| famousFor |
association with Charles Darwin’s voyage
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including HMS Beagle ⓘ |
| navalWarfareEra | Age of Sail ⓘ |
| navy | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| notableUnit |
HMS Beagle
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HMS Cherokee ⓘ |
| numberOfMasts | 2 ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| primaryRole | warship ⓘ |
| propulsion | sail ⓘ |
| riggingType | brig ⓘ |
| secondaryRole | survey vessel ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| usedBy | British Empire ⓘ |
| usedFor |
anti-slavery patrols
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colonial service ⓘ escort duties ⓘ patrol ⓘ surveying ⓘ |
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: Cherokee-class brig-sloop Description of subject: The Cherokee-class brig-sloop was a class of small, two-masted Royal Navy warships of the early 19th century, best known for including HMS Beagle, the survey vessel that carried Charles Darwin on his famous voyage.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.