HMS Broadsword
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HMS Broadsword was a Royal Navy Type 22 frigate that gained prominence for its role in the Falklands War, particularly during the Battle of San Carlos.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Broadsword canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11184409 — 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 Broadsword Context triple: [Battle of San Carlos, notableShip, HMS Broadsword]
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A.
HMS Defender
HMS Defender is a Royal Navy Type 45 (Daring-class) air-defence destroyer designed to provide advanced fleet protection and maritime security operations worldwide.
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B.
HMS Leander
HMS Leander was a Royal Navy light cruiser that served as the lead ship and namesake of the Leander-class cruisers, active during the interwar period and World War II.
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C.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the decisive 1798 Battle of the Nile in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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D.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard is a British Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine that serves as part of the United Kingdom’s strategic nuclear deterrent force.
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E.
HMS Centurion
HMS Centurion was a British King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that served during World War I and later as a target and decoy ship in World War II.
- 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 Broadsword Target entity description: HMS Broadsword was a Royal Navy Type 22 frigate that gained prominence for its role in the Falklands War, particularly during the Battle of San Carlos.
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A.
HMS Defender
HMS Defender is a Royal Navy Type 45 (Daring-class) air-defence destroyer designed to provide advanced fleet protection and maritime security operations worldwide.
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B.
HMS Leander
HMS Leander was a Royal Navy light cruiser that served as the lead ship and namesake of the Leander-class cruisers, active during the interwar period and World War II.
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C.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the decisive 1798 Battle of the Nile in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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D.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard is a British Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine that serves as part of the United Kingdom’s strategic nuclear deterrent force.
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E.
HMS Centurion
HMS Centurion was a British King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that served during World War I and later as a target and decoy ship in World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy frigate
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Type 22 frigate ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| aircraftCarried | Lynx helicopter ⓘ |
| armament |
114 mm main gun
ⓘ
Exocet anti-ship missiles ⓘ
linked to:
Exocet anti-ship missile
Sea Wolf surface-to-air missile system ⓘ
linked to:
Sea Wolf missile system (later refit)
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| battle | Battle of San Carlos ⓘ |
| beam | 14.8 m (approximate) ⓘ |
| BrazilianName | BNS Greenhalgh ⓘ |
| BrazilianPennantNumber | F46 ⓘ |
| builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders ⓘ |
| class | Type 22 frigate ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1979-05-03 ⓘ |
| conflict | Falklands War ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1995-04-31 ⓘ |
| displacement | 4300 tons (full load, approximate) ⓘ |
| era | Cold War ⓘ |
| fate | sold to Brazilian Navy ⓘ |
| flag | White Ensign ⓘ |
| incident | near-miss and damage during Argentine air attacks in Falklands War ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1975-02-07 ⓘ |
| launched | 1976-05-12 ⓘ |
| length | 131.2 m (approximate) ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 30 knots (approximate) ⓘ |
| namesake | Broadsword ⓘ |
| navalEnsign | White Ensign ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
operated in company with HMS Coventry during Falklands War
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provided Sea Wolf missile cover during landings at San Carlos ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | F88 ⓘ |
| propulsion | COGOG gas-turbine system ⓘ |
| renamed | Greenhalgh ⓘ |
| roleInBattleOfSanCarlos | air-defence escort ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | late 1970s ⓘ |
| shipyard | Scotstoun, Glasgow ⓘ |
| soldTo | Brazilian Navy ⓘ |
| status | in service with Brazilian Navy in early 21st century ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Broadsword-class frigate ⓘ |
| successorNavy |
Marinha do Brasil
ⓘ
linked to:
Brazilian Navy
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| taskGroup | British amphibious task force (Falklands War) ⓘ |
| theatreOfOperations | South Atlantic ⓘ |
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 Broadsword Description of subject: HMS Broadsword was a Royal Navy Type 22 frigate that gained prominence for its role in the Falklands War, particularly during the Battle of San Carlos.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.