HII
E181132
HII is a major American defense contractor and shipbuilding company best known for constructing U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and other military vessels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HII canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1589980 — 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: HII Context triple: [Newport News Shipbuilding, hasParentCompany, HII]
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A.
HH
HH is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the German city-state of Hamburg.
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B.
HI
HI is the standard two-letter U.S. postal abbreviation for the state of Hawaii.
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C.
GII
GII is the commonly used abbreviation for the Global Innovation Index, an annual ranking that measures and compares countries’ innovation performance worldwide.
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D.
Hish
Hish was a field corps branch of the Haganah, the main Jewish paramilitary organization in Mandatory Palestine before the establishment of the State of Israel.
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E.
HEE
HEE is the acronym for Health Education England, the national body responsible for overseeing education, training, and workforce development for healthcare staff in England.
- 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: HII Target entity description: HII is a major American defense contractor and shipbuilding company best known for constructing U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and other military vessels.
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A.
HH
HH is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the German city-state of Hamburg.
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B.
HI
HI is the standard two-letter U.S. postal abbreviation for the state of Hawaii.
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C.
GII
GII is the commonly used abbreviation for the Global Innovation Index, an annual ranking that measures and compares countries’ innovation performance worldwide.
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D.
Hish
Hish was a field corps branch of the Haganah, the main Jewish paramilitary organization in Mandatory Palestine before the establishment of the State of Israel.
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E.
HEE
HEE is the acronym for Health Education England, the national body responsible for overseeing education, training, and workforce development for healthcare staff in England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aerospace and defense company
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defense contractor ⓘ public company ⓘ shipbuilding company ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| formerName |
Ingalls Shipbuilding
ⓘ
surface form:
Huntington Ingalls Industries
|
| foundedBy |
Northrop Grumman
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surface form:
Northrop Grumman (spin-off)
|
| hasAbbreviation | HII self-link ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Ingalls Shipbuilding
ⓘ
Mission Technologies ⓘ Newport News Shipbuilding ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Ingalls Shipbuilding
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Mission Technologies ⓘ Newport News Shipbuilding ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Newport News, Virginia ⓘ |
| industry |
aerospace and defense
ⓘ
defense ⓘ shipbuilding ⓘ |
| knownFor |
construction of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers
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construction of U.S. Navy submarines ⓘ construction of amphibious assault ships ⓘ military shipbuilding ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| listedOn | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| majorMarket |
Department of Defense
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surface form:
U.S. Department of Defense
|
| operatesInSector |
defense technology services
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military shipbuilding ⓘ naval engineering ⓘ |
| primaryCustomer | United States Navy ⓘ |
| product |
C4ISR systems
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surface form:
C5ISR systems
aircraft carriers ⓘ amphibious warfare ships ⓘ defense engineering services ⓘ destroyers ⓘ logistics support ships ⓘ submarines ⓘ unmanned maritime systems ⓘ |
| separatedFrom | Northrop Grumman ⓘ |
| servesClient |
United States government
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surface form:
U.S. government
United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
C5ISR solutions
ⓘ
coast guard cutters ⓘ defense technologies ⓘ nuclear-powered aircraft carriers ⓘ nuclear-powered submarines ⓘ surface combatants ⓘ unmanned systems ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | HII self-link ⓘ |
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: HII Description of subject: HII is a major American defense contractor and shipbuilding company best known for constructing U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and other military vessels.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.