USS George Washington (CVN-73)
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USS George Washington (CVN-73) is a United States Navy Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that has served as a key component of the U.S. carrier strike force since the early 1990s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| CVN-73 | 1 |
| USS George Washington (CVN-73) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2596432 — 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 George Washington (CVN-73) Context triple: [USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), succeededBy, USS George Washington (CVN-73)]
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USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after the 41st U.S. president and former naval aviator George H. W. Bush.
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B.
USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the lead ship of the Nimitz-class, among the largest warships in the world.
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C.
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) was a U.S. Navy Kitty Hawk–class supercarrier that served as a key conventionally powered aircraft carrier from the early 1960s until its decommissioning in 2009.
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D.
USS Forrestal (CV-59)
USS Forrestal (CV-59) was the United States Navy’s first supercarrier, commissioned in 1955 and named in honor of the first U.S. Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal.
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E.
USS Independence (CV-62)
USS Independence (CV-62) was a Forrestal-class U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that served from the late 1950s through the Cold War and into the 1990s, participating in major operations including the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm.
- 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 George Washington (CVN-73) Target entity description: USS George Washington (CVN-73) is a United States Navy Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that has served as a key component of the U.S. carrier strike force since the early 1990s.
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A.
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after the 41st U.S. president and former naval aviator George H. W. Bush.
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B.
USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the lead ship of the Nimitz-class, among the largest warships in the world.
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C.
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) was a U.S. Navy Kitty Hawk–class supercarrier that served as a key conventionally powered aircraft carrier from the early 1960s until its decommissioning in 2009.
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D.
USS Forrestal (CV-59)
USS Forrestal (CV-59) was the United States Navy’s first supercarrier, commissioned in 1955 and named in honor of the first U.S. Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal.
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E.
USS Independence (CV-62)
USS Independence (CV-62) was a Forrestal-class U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that served from the late 1950s through the Cold War and into the 1990s, participating in major operations including the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
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United States Navy ship ⓘ nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ⓘ supercarrier ⓘ |
| aircraftCarried | approximately 75 aircraft ⓘ |
| airWing | Carrier Air Wing Five ⓘ |
| armament |
Phalanx CIWS (modernization era)
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surface form:
Phalanx CIWS
RIM-162 ESSM ⓘ RIM-7 Sea Sparrow ⓘ
surface form:
RIM-7 Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missiles
Rolling Airframe Missile ⓘ
surface form:
Rolling Airframe Missile launchers
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| beam | about 40.8 meters ⓘ |
| builder | Newport News Shipbuilding ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1992-07-04 ⓘ |
| constructionCost | approximately 3.5 billion US dollars (nominal at time of construction) ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| crewComplement |
about 2480 air wing personnel
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about 3200 ship's company ⓘ |
| deploymentRegion |
Atlantic Ocean
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Indian Ocean ⓘ Mediterranean Sea ⓘ Persian Gulf ⓘ western Pacific Ocean ⓘ
surface form:
Western Pacific Ocean
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| displacement | approximately 104000 long tons full load ⓘ |
| flightDeckWidth | about 76.8 meters ⓘ |
| followedBy | USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) ⓘ |
| forwardDeployment |
Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
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surface form:
Yokosuka, Japan
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| homeport |
Naval Station Everett
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Naval Station Mayport ⓘ Naval Station Norfolk ⓘ Yokosuka Naval Base ⓘ |
| hullNumber |
USS George Washington (CVN-73)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
CVN-73
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| laidDown | 1986-08-25 ⓘ |
| launched | 1990-07-21 ⓘ |
| length | about 333 meters ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | over 30 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | George Washington ⓘ |
| namesakeOccupation | first President of the United States ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
first forward-deployed nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan
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participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom ⓘ participated in Operation Southern Watch ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| partOf |
Carrier Strike Group Five
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U.S. Pacific Fleet ⓘ
surface form:
United States Pacific Fleet
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| precededBy | USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) ⓘ |
| propulsion |
2 Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors
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4 shafts ⓘ 4 steam turbines ⓘ |
| replaced |
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
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surface form:
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) as forward-deployed carrier in Japan
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| role |
aircraft carrier
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flagship of carrier strike group ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | early 1990s ⓘ |
| shipClass |
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
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surface form:
Nimitz class
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| shipyard | Newport News Shipbuilding ⓘ |
| status | in active service ⓘ |
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 George Washington (CVN-73) Description of subject: USS George Washington (CVN-73) is a United States Navy Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that has served as a key component of the U.S. carrier strike force since the early 1990s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
USS George Washington (CVN-73)
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hullNumber
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USS George Washington (CVN-73)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
CVN-73