USS Hornet (CV-8)
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USS Hornet (CV-8) was a U.S. Navy Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of World War II best known for launching the Doolittle Raid and for its role in major Pacific battles before being sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USS Hornet (CV-8) canonical | 15 |
| U.S. aircraft carrier USS Hornet | 1 |
| aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) | 1 |
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy ship
ⓘ
Yorktown-class aircraft carrier ⓘ aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| aircraftCarried | approximately 80–90 aircraft (varied over time) ⓘ |
| airGroupType | carrier air group ⓘ |
| armament |
8 × 5-inch/38 caliber guns
ⓘ
anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| awards |
Presidential Unit Citation
ⓘ
multiple battle stars ⓘ |
| builder | Newport News Shipbuilding ⓘ |
| carried | B-25 Mitchell bombers for the Doolittle Raid ⓘ |
| class | Yorktown class ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1941-10-20 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement | about 2,000 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| displacement | approximately 20,000 tons standard ⓘ |
| era |
World War II
ⓘ
surface form:
World War II era
|
| fate | sunk in battle ⓘ |
| followedBy | USS Essex (CV-9) ⓘ |
| foundAsWreck | 2019 ⓘ |
| homeport | various Pacific bases ⓘ |
| hullNumber | CV-8 ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1939-09-25 ⓘ |
| launched | 1940-12-14 ⓘ |
| length | about 809 feet ⓘ |
| locationOfSinking | near the Santa Cruz Islands ⓘ |
| lostTo | Japanese naval and air forces ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 32 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | hornet ⓘ |
| navalArchitecture | pre-war U.S. fleet carrier design ⓘ |
| notableFor |
launching the Doolittle Raid
ⓘ
participation in the Battle of Midway ⓘ participation in the Guadalcanal Campaign ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| partOf |
U.S. Pacific Fleet
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Fleet
|
| precededBy | USS Yorktown (CV-5) ⓘ |
| propulsion |
four shafts
ⓘ
steam turbines ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | just before U.S. entry into World War II ⓘ |
| status | wreck on the seafloor ⓘ |
| successorNameShip | USS Hornet (CV-12) ⓘ |
| sunk | 1942-10-27 ⓘ |
| sunkIn | Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands ⓘ |
| theater |
Pacific War
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Theater
|
| tookPartIn |
Battle of Midway
ⓘ
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands ⓘ Doolittle Raid ⓘ Solomon Islands campaign ⓘ |
| wreckLocatedBy | RV Petrel expedition team ⓘ |
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 Hornet (CV-8) Description of subject: USS Hornet (CV-8) was a U.S. Navy Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of World War II best known for launching the Doolittle Raid and for its role in major Pacific battles before being sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
this entity surface form:
U.S. aircraft carrier USS Hornet
this entity surface form:
aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8)
subject surface form:
USS Enterprise (CV-6)
subject surface form:
USS Hornet (CV-12)