Bethesda Naval Hospital
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Bethesda Naval Hospital, officially the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, was a major U.S. military medical facility known for treating presidents and other high-ranking officials.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T210170 — 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: Bethesda Naval Hospital Context triple: [Assassination of John F. Kennedy, bodyTakenTo, Bethesda Naval Hospital]
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Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard is a major U.S. Navy industrial facility in Hawaii that provides maintenance, repair, and modernization services for naval vessels and submarines.
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B.
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is a major U.S. Marine Corps installation in Southern California that serves as a primary amphibious and ground combat training center.
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C.
Harbor Unit
The Harbor Unit is the New York City Police Department’s specialized maritime division responsible for law enforcement, search and rescue, and security operations on the city’s waterways and harbor areas.
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D.
Kure Naval Arsenal
Kure Naval Arsenal was a major Imperial Japanese Navy shipbuilding and armaments facility known for constructing prominent warships and aircraft carriers before and during World War II.
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E.
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is a major U.S. Marine Corps installation in North Carolina known for its extensive amphibious warfare and combat training operations.
- 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: Bethesda Naval Hospital Target entity description: Bethesda Naval Hospital, officially the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, was a major U.S. military medical facility known for treating presidents and other high-ranking officials.
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A.
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard is a major U.S. Navy industrial facility in Hawaii that provides maintenance, repair, and modernization services for naval vessels and submarines.
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B.
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is a major U.S. Marine Corps installation in Southern California that serves as a primary amphibious and ground combat training center.
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C.
Harbor Unit
The Harbor Unit is the New York City Police Department’s specialized maritime division responsible for law enforcement, search and rescue, and security operations on the city’s waterways and harbor areas.
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D.
Kure Naval Arsenal
Kure Naval Arsenal was a major Imperial Japanese Navy shipbuilding and armaments facility known for constructing prominent warships and aircraft carriers before and during World War II.
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E.
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is a major U.S. Marine Corps installation in North Carolina known for its extensive amphibious warfare and combat training operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy medical facility
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military hospital ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1942 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1939 ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 38.999°N 77.097°W ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| function |
provide medical care to U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel
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provide medical care to U.S. presidents ⓘ provide medical care to senior U.S. government officials ⓘ teaching hospital ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
emergency department
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inpatient hospital ⓘ medical training facilities ⓘ outpatient clinics ⓘ research laboratories ⓘ surgical suites ⓘ |
| inception | 1940 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Bethesda, Maryland ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Maryland
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Montgomery County ⓘ
surface form:
Montgomery County, Maryland
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| mergedInto | Walter Reed National Military Medical Center ⓘ |
| mergerDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| nearby |
National Institutes of Health
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surface form:
National Institutes of Health campus
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| notableEvent | autopsy of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 ⓘ |
| notablePatient |
Barack Obama
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Bill Clinton ⓘ Dwight D. Eisenhower ⓘ President Franklin D. Roosevelt ⓘ
surface form:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush ⓘ George W. Bush ⓘ Gerald Ford ⓘ Jimmy Carter ⓘ John F. Kennedy ⓘ Lyndon B. Johnson ⓘ Richard Nixon ⓘ Ronald Reagan ⓘ |
| officialName |
Bethesda Naval Hospital
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
National Naval Medical Center
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| operatedBy |
Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
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United States Navy ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Department of the Navy
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surface form:
United States Department of the Navy
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| partOf |
U.S. military health system
ⓘ
surface form:
Military Health System
U.S. military health system ⓘ
surface form:
United States military health system
|
| replacedBy | Walter Reed National Military Medical Center ⓘ |
| shortName | NNMC ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
Gulf War medical treatment of service members
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Korean War medical treatment of service members ⓘ Vietnam War medical treatment of service members ⓘ World War II medical treatment of service members ⓘ |
| status | former hospital ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Bethesda Naval Hospital Description of subject: Bethesda Naval Hospital, officially the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, was a major U.S. military medical facility known for treating presidents and other high-ranking officials.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
National Naval Medical Center
this entity surface form:
National Naval Medical Center
this entity surface form:
National Naval Medical Center
this entity surface form:
Bethesda Naval Medical Center
this entity surface form:
National Naval Medical Center
this entity surface form:
National Naval Medical Center
subject surface form:
National Naval Medical Center
subject surface form:
National Naval Medical Center
this entity surface form:
Naval Medical Center Bethesda
subject surface form:
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
this entity surface form:
National Naval Medical Center
this entity surface form:
National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland
this entity surface form:
National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda
this entity surface form:
National Naval Medical Center