USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413)
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USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) was a John C. Butler–class destroyer escort famed for its heroic, outgunned charge against a superior Japanese fleet during the Battle off Samar in World War II.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) canonical | 5 |
| destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2464036 — 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: USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) Context triple: [Battle off Samar, notableU.S.Ship, USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413)]
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A.
USS Maddox (DD-731)
USS Maddox (DD-731) was a U.S. Navy destroyer best known for its controversial role in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, which helped escalate American involvement in the Vietnam War.
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B.
USS Turner Joy (DD-951)
USS Turner Joy (DD-951) was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of the United States Navy best known for its controversial role in the events that escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
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C.
USS Hammann (DE-131)
USS Hammann (DE-131) was a World War II-era U.S. Navy Edsall-class destroyer escort named in honor of Medal of Honor recipient Charles Hammann.
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D.
USS O’Brien (DD-415)
USS O’Brien (DD-415) was a World War II-era United States Navy destroyer that served in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters before being lost to damage sustained from a Japanese torpedo attack in 1942.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) Target entity description: USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) was a John C. Butler–class destroyer escort famed for its heroic, outgunned charge against a superior Japanese fleet during the Battle off Samar in World War II.
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A.
USS Maddox (DD-731)
USS Maddox (DD-731) was a U.S. Navy destroyer best known for its controversial role in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, which helped escalate American involvement in the Vietnam War.
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B.
USS Turner Joy (DD-951)
USS Turner Joy (DD-951) was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of the United States Navy best known for its controversial role in the events that escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
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C.
USS Hammann (DE-131)
USS Hammann (DE-131) was a World War II-era U.S. Navy Edsall-class destroyer escort named in honor of Medal of Honor recipient Charles Hammann.
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D.
USS O’Brien (DD-415)
USS O’Brien (DD-415) was a World War II-era United States Navy destroyer that served in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters before being lost to damage sustained from a Japanese torpedo attack in 1942.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
John C. Butler-class destroyer escort
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destroyer escort ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| armament |
20 mm anti-aircraft guns
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40 mm anti-aircraft guns ⓘ 5-inch/38 caliber guns ⓘ depth charge projectors ⓘ depth charge racks ⓘ torpedo tubes ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Escort Carrier Task Unit 77.4.3
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Taffy 3 ⓘ |
| battleHonors |
Battle star for World War II service
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Presidential Unit Citation (United States) ⓘ
surface form:
Presidential Unit Citation
|
| beam | about 36 feet 10 inches ⓘ |
| builder | Brown Shipbuilding Company, Houston, Texas ⓘ |
| builtAt | Brown Shipbuilding Company ⓘ |
| causeOfSinking |
Japanese naval gunfire
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torpedo damage ⓘ |
| class | John C. Butler-class ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewComplement | approximately 200 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| dateOfSinking | 25 October 1944 ⓘ |
| designation | DE-413 ⓘ |
| displacement | approximately 1,350 tons standard ⓘ |
| engagedWith |
Battle off Samar
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surface form:
Japanese Center Force at Battle off Samar
|
| era | World War II era ⓘ |
| fate | sunk in action ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor |
USS Samuel B. Roberts (DD-823)
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USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) ⓘ |
| length | about 306 feet ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 24 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Samuel B. Roberts ⓘ |
| navalEnsign | Ensign of the United States Navy ⓘ |
| notableAs | “destroyer escort that fought like a battleship” ⓘ |
| notableFor | heroic charge against superior Japanese surface forces at Battle off Samar ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Battle off Samar ⓘ |
| partOf |
U.S. Pacific Fleet
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surface form:
United States Navy Pacific Fleet
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| placeOfSinking | off Samar, Philippines ⓘ |
| propulsion | diesel-electric drive ⓘ |
| role |
anti-submarine warfare ship
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escort vessel ⓘ screening ship for escort carriers ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| serviceEntryEra | 1940s ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations | Pacific Theater of Operations ⓘ |
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: USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) Description of subject: USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) was a John C. Butler–class destroyer escort famed for its heroic, outgunned charge against a superior Japanese fleet during the Battle off Samar in World War II.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts