North Carolina-class battleship
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The North Carolina-class battleship was a pair of fast American World War II battleships, including USS North Carolina and USS Washington, designed with improved speed, armor, and anti-aircraft capabilities under the constraints of interwar naval treaties.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| North Carolina-class battleship canonical | 6 |
| North Carolina class | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1581041 — 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: North Carolina-class battleship Context triple: [Colorado-class battleship, followedBy, North Carolina-class battleship]
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A.
New Mexico-class battleship
The New Mexico-class battleship was a group of U.S. Navy dreadnoughts built during World War I that introduced improved firepower, armor, and propulsion over earlier classes and served through World War II.
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B.
Pennsylvania-class battleship
The Pennsylvania-class battleship was a pair of powerful U.S. Navy dreadnoughts built during World War I that later served prominently in World War II, including at Pearl Harbor and in major Pacific campaigns.
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C.
New York-class battleship
The New York-class battleship was a class of early 20th-century U.S. Navy dreadnoughts that introduced 14-inch guns and served prominently through both World Wars.
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D.
Florida-class battleship
The Florida-class battleship was an early 20th-century class of U.S. Navy dreadnoughts that marked a step forward in American capital ship design before World War I.
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E.
Iowa-class battleship
The Iowa-class battleship is a class of fast, heavily armed U.S. Navy battleships built during World War II, renowned for their large 16-inch guns, thick armor, and long service lives extending into the late 20th century.
- 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: North Carolina-class battleship Target entity description: The North Carolina-class battleship was a pair of fast American World War II battleships, including USS North Carolina and USS Washington, designed with improved speed, armor, and anti-aircraft capabilities under the constraints of interwar naval treaties.
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A.
New Mexico-class battleship
The New Mexico-class battleship was a group of U.S. Navy dreadnoughts built during World War I that introduced improved firepower, armor, and propulsion over earlier classes and served through World War II.
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B.
Pennsylvania-class battleship
The Pennsylvania-class battleship was a pair of powerful U.S. Navy dreadnoughts built during World War I that later served prominently in World War II, including at Pearl Harbor and in major Pacific campaigns.
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C.
New York-class battleship
The New York-class battleship was a class of early 20th-century U.S. Navy dreadnoughts that introduced 14-inch guns and served prominently through both World Wars.
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D.
Florida-class battleship
The Florida-class battleship was an early 20th-century class of U.S. Navy dreadnoughts that marked a step forward in American capital ship design before World War I.
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E.
Iowa-class battleship
The Iowa-class battleship is a class of fast, heavily armed U.S. Navy battleships built during World War II, renowned for their large 16-inch guns, thick armor, and long service lives extending into the late 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy ship class
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battleship class ⓘ |
| antiAircraftArmament |
20 mm Oerlikon cannons
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40 mm Bofors guns ⓘ |
| armourScheme | all-or-nothing armor ⓘ |
| category |
World War II battleships of the United States
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ship classes of the United States Navy ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewType | mixed officers and enlisted personnel ⓘ |
| designedBy |
Bureau of Construction and Repair (U.S. Navy)
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surface form:
Bureau of Construction and Repair of the United States Navy
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| designedFor | high speed operations with carrier task forces ⓘ |
| designedRoleInFleet | core unit of fast carrier task forces in the Pacific ⓘ |
| designedToComplyWith |
14-inch main gun caliber limit (initial design)
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35,000 long ton standard displacement limit ⓘ |
| designedToCounter | contemporary Japanese and European capital ships ⓘ |
| designedUnder |
London Naval Treaty
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Five-Power Treaty ⓘ
surface form:
Washington Naval Treaty
|
| era | interwar period ⓘ |
| fireControl | radar-directed gunfire ⓘ |
| followedBy | South Dakota-class battleship (1939) ⓘ |
| hasPart |
USS North Carolina (BB-55)
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USS Washington (BB-56) ⓘ |
| hullForm | long, fine hull for higher speed ⓘ |
| laterModifiedFor | 16-inch main guns ⓘ |
| mainBatteryConfiguration | three triple turrets ⓘ |
| navalArchitectureConcept | treaty battleship ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
heavy anti-aircraft battery
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improved underwater protection ⓘ torpedo defense system ⓘ |
| numberOfUnitsBuilt | 2 ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| precededBy |
South Dakota-class battleship
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surface form:
South Dakota-class battleship (1920) (cancelled)
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| primaryArmament | 9 × 16-inch/45 caliber guns ⓘ |
| propulsion |
four propeller shafts
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| role |
anti-aircraft defense
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escort for aircraft carriers ⓘ surface combat ⓘ |
| secondaryArmament | 5-inch/38 caliber dual-purpose guns ⓘ |
| serviceEntryDecade | 1940s ⓘ |
| shipType | fast battleship ⓘ |
| speed | fast for battleships of its era ⓘ |
| typicalMission |
fleet air defense
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shore bombardment ⓘ surface action against enemy capital ships ⓘ |
| usedInTheater |
Pacific Theater of Operations
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surface form:
Pacific Theater of World War II
|
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: North Carolina-class battleship Description of subject: The North Carolina-class battleship was a pair of fast American World War II battleships, including USS North Carolina and USS Washington, designed with improved speed, armor, and anti-aircraft capabilities under the constraints of interwar naval treaties.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Colorado-class battleship
this entity surface form:
North Carolina class
subject surface form:
USS Alabama (BB-60)