BB-45
E180434
Colorado-class battleship
United States Navy hull number
battleship
battleship class
hull classification symbol
BB-45 is the hull classification symbol for USS Colorado, a Colorado-class battleship that served in the United States Navy during the early to mid-20th century, including World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BB-45 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1581134 — 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: BB-45 Context triple: [USS Colorado (BB-45), hullNumber, BB-45]
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A.
BB-43
BB-43 is the hull classification symbol for USS Tennessee, a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during World War II.
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B.
BB-44
BB-44 was the hull classification symbol for USS California, a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served notably during World War II.
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C.
BB-46
BB-46 is the hull classification symbol for USS Maryland, a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during World War II.
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D.
BB-48
BB-48 is the hull classification symbol for USS West Virginia, a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that was damaged at Pearl Harbor and later modernized for World War II service.
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E.
BB-39
BB-39 is the hull classification symbol for USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
- 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: BB-45 Target entity description: BB-45 is the hull classification symbol for USS Colorado, a Colorado-class battleship that served in the United States Navy during the early to mid-20th century, including World War II.
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A.
BB-43
BB-43 is the hull classification symbol for USS Tennessee, a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during World War II.
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B.
BB-44
BB-44 was the hull classification symbol for USS California, a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served notably during World War II.
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C.
BB-46
BB-46 is the hull classification symbol for USS Maryland, a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during World War II.
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D.
BB-48
BB-48 is the hull classification symbol for USS West Virginia, a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that was damaged at Pearl Harbor and later modernized for World War II service.
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E.
BB-39
BB-39 is the hull classification symbol for USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Colorado-class battleship
ⓘ
United States Navy hull number ⓘ battleship ⓘ battleship class ⓘ hull classification symbol ⓘ |
| armamentType | naval artillery ⓘ |
| armedForceBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| class |
Colorado-class battleship
ⓘ
surface form:
Colorado-class
|
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| denotes |
USS Colorado (BB-45)
ⓘ
surface form:
USS Colorado
|
| era |
World War II era
ⓘ
World War II era ⓘ dreadnought era ⓘ interwar period ⓘ interwar period ⓘ |
| hullNumber | BB-45 self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Colorado
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Colorado
|
| navalTheater |
Pacific War
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Theater of World War II
|
| operator |
United States Navy
ⓘ
United States Navy ⓘ |
| propulsionType | steam turbine ⓘ |
| serviceEntryEra | early 20th century ⓘ |
| serviceEra | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| shipType |
capital ship
ⓘ
dreadnought battleship ⓘ |
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: BB-45 Description of subject: BB-45 is the hull classification symbol for USS Colorado, a Colorado-class battleship that served in the United States Navy during the early to mid-20th century, including World War II.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
USS Colorado