USS Houston (SSN-713)
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USS Houston (SSN-713) was a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the United States Navy, named after the city of Houston, Texas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Houston (SSN-713) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13486209 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: USS Houston (SSN-713) Context triple: [USS Chicago (SSN-721), precededBy, USS Houston (SSN-713)]
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USS Chicago (SSN-721)
USS Chicago (SSN-721) is a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the United States Navy named after the city of Chicago.
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USS Virginia (SSN-774)
USS Virginia (SSN-774) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine that serves as the lead boat of the Virginia class, designed for a broad range of open-ocean and littoral missions.
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USS Silversides (SSN-679)
USS Silversides (SSN-679) was a Sturgeon-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the United States Navy that served during the Cold War.
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USS Georgia (SSGN-729)
USS Georgia (SSGN-729) is a United States Navy Ohio-class guided-missile submarine that was originally built as a ballistic missile submarine before being converted to carry cruise missiles and support special operations.
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USS Michigan (SSGN-727)
USS Michigan (SSGN-727) is a United States Navy Ohio-class guided-missile submarine that was originally commissioned as a ballistic missile submarine before being converted to carry cruise missiles and support special operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: USS Houston (SSN-713) Target entity description: USS Houston (SSN-713) was a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the United States Navy, named after the city of Houston, Texas.
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USS Chicago (SSN-721)
USS Chicago (SSN-721) is a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the United States Navy named after the city of Chicago.
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B.
USS Virginia (SSN-774)
USS Virginia (SSN-774) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine that serves as the lead boat of the Virginia class, designed for a broad range of open-ocean and littoral missions.
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USS Silversides (SSN-679)
USS Silversides (SSN-679) was a Sturgeon-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the United States Navy that served during the Cold War.
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USS Georgia (SSGN-729)
USS Georgia (SSGN-729) is a United States Navy Ohio-class guided-missile submarine that was originally built as a ballistic missile submarine before being converted to carry cruise missiles and support special operations.
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USS Michigan (SSGN-727)
USS Michigan (SSGN-727) is a United States Navy Ohio-class guided-missile submarine that was originally commissioned as a ballistic missile submarine before being converted to carry cruise missiles and support special operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine
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United States Navy submarine ⓘ military vessel ⓘ |
| armament |
Harpoon anti-ship missiles
NERFINISHED
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Mark 48 torpedoes NERFINISHED ⓘ Tomahawk cruise missiles NERFINISHED ⓘ mines ⓘ |
| awarded |
Meritorious Unit Commendation
NERFINISHED
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National Defense Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Navy Battle "E" Ribbon NERFINISHED ⓘ Navy Expeditionary Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Navy Unit Commendation NERFINISHED ⓘ Sea Service Deployment Ribbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| beam | approximately 10 meters ⓘ |
| builder | Newport News Shipbuilding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissionedDate | 1982-09-25 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement |
approximately 115 enlisted
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approximately 12 officers ⓘ |
| decommissionedDate | 2016-08-26 ⓘ |
| displacementSubmerged | approximately 6927 long tons ⓘ |
| draft | approximately 9.6 meters ⓘ |
| finalStatus | awaiting recycling at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard ⓘ |
| fleet | United States Pacific Fleet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeport |
Apra Harbor, Guam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hullNumber | SSN-713 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laidDownAt | Newport News Shipbuilding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laidDownDate | 1979-01-29 ⓘ |
| laidDownIn | Newport News, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchedDate | 1981-03-21 ⓘ |
| length | approximately 110.3 meters ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Houston, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedFor | city of Houston, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NavyPrefix | USS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | involved in 2008 radiation leak incident ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Cold War naval operations
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Indian Ocean deployments ⓘ Western Pacific deployments ⓘ |
| propulsion | nuclear-powered ⓘ |
| propulsionSystem |
one S6G nuclear reactor
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one shaft ⓘ two steam turbines ⓘ |
| radiationLeakDiscovered | 2008 ⓘ |
| radiationLeakExtent | small amount of radioactivity released over several years ⓘ |
| radiationLeakLocation | coolant system ⓘ |
| shipClass | Los Angeles class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shipType | attack submarine ⓘ |
| speedSubmerged | over 25 knots ⓘ |
| sponsor | Barbara Bush NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strickenFromNavalVesselRegisterDate | 2016-08-26 ⓘ |
| torpedoTubes | 4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: USS Houston (SSN-713) Description of subject: USS Houston (SSN-713) was a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the United States Navy, named after the city of Houston, Texas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.