USS Guadalcanal
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USS Guadalcanal was a U.S. Navy escort aircraft carrier of World War II, best known for leading the task group that captured the German submarine U-505 in 1944.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USS Guadalcanal canonical | 2 |
| USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) | 2 |
| USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2039950 — 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: USS Guadalcanal Context triple: [U-505, capturedBy, USS Guadalcanal]
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A.
USS Cassin Young
USS Cassin Young is a preserved World War II-era Fletcher-class destroyer now serving as a museum ship in Boston, Massachusetts.
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B.
USS Hancock
USS Hancock was a prominent frigate of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, known for its early naval engagements against the British.
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C.
USS Pope
USS Pope was a U.S. Navy Clemson-class destroyer that saw intense action in the early Pacific War before being lost during the Japanese advance in 1942.
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D.
USS Leonard F. Mason
USS Leonard F. Mason was a U.S. Navy destroyer best known for serving as the primary recovery ship for NASA’s Gemini 8 space mission.
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E.
USS Astoria
USS Astoria was a U.S. Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser that served in the Pacific during World War II before being lost early in the Guadalcanal campaign.
- 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: USS Guadalcanal Target entity description: USS Guadalcanal was a U.S. Navy escort aircraft carrier of World War II, best known for leading the task group that captured the German submarine U-505 in 1944.
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A.
USS Cassin Young
USS Cassin Young is a preserved World War II-era Fletcher-class destroyer now serving as a museum ship in Boston, Massachusetts.
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B.
USS Hancock
USS Hancock was a prominent frigate of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, known for its early naval engagements against the British.
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C.
USS Pope
USS Pope was a U.S. Navy Clemson-class destroyer that saw intense action in the early Pacific War before being lost during the Japanese advance in 1942.
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D.
USS Leonard F. Mason
USS Leonard F. Mason was a U.S. Navy destroyer best known for serving as the primary recovery ship for NASA’s Gemini 8 space mission.
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E.
USS Astoria
USS Astoria was a U.S. Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser that served in the Pacific during World War II before being lost early in the Guadalcanal campaign.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy ship
ⓘ
World War II aircraft carrier ⓘ escort aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| aircraftOperated |
Grumman F4F Wildcat
ⓘ
surface form:
Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighters
Grumman TBF Avenger ⓘ
surface form:
Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger torpedo bombers
|
| airGroupSize | about 28 aircraft ⓘ |
| armament |
1 × 5-inch/38 caliber gun
ⓘ
12 × 20 mm anti-aircraft guns ⓘ 16 × 40 mm anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| awarded |
Battle stars for World War II service
ⓘ
Presidential Unit Citation (United States) ⓘ
surface form:
Presidential Unit Citation
|
| beam | 32.9 meters ⓘ |
| builder | Kaiser Shipyards, Vancouver, Washington ⓘ |
| captured |
U-505 submarine
ⓘ
surface form:
German submarine U-505
|
| captureOfU505Date | 1944-06-04 ⓘ |
| commandedBy | Captain Daniel V. Gallery ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1943-09-25 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement | about 900 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| decommissionedOn | 1946-07-15 ⓘ |
| displacement | about 7,800 tons standard ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| homeport | Norfolk, Virginia ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| laidDownBy |
Kaiser Richmond Shipyards
ⓘ
surface form:
Kaiser Shipyards
|
| launchedOn | 1943-06-05 ⓘ |
| length | 156.1 meters ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Battle of Guadalcanal
ⓘ
surface form:
Guadalcanal Campaign
Guadalcanal ⓘ
surface form:
Guadalcanal Island
|
| navalFleet |
Atlantic Fleet
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Atlantic Fleet
|
| notableFor | capture of German submarine U-505 ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| partOf | Task Group 22.3 ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | CVE-60 ⓘ |
| primaryRole |
anti-submarine warfare
ⓘ
convoy escort ⓘ |
| propulsion |
single shaft
ⓘ
steam turbine ⓘ two boilers ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| shipClass | Casablanca-class escort carrier ⓘ |
| shipNumber | CVE-60 ⓘ |
| shipType | escort aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| strickenFromNavalRegisterOn | 1958-06-27 ⓘ |
| tookPartIn |
Battle of the Atlantic
ⓘ
hunter-killer operations in the Atlantic ⓘ |
| topSpeed | about 19 knots ⓘ |
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: USS Guadalcanal Description of subject: USS Guadalcanal was a U.S. Navy escort aircraft carrier of World War II, best known for leading the task group that captured the German submarine U-505 in 1944.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
U-505
this entity surface form:
USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60)
this entity surface form:
USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60)
this entity surface form:
USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7)