USS Lake Champlain
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USS Lake Champlain was a U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in World War II, the Korean War, and later as a recovery ship for early American crewed space missions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Lake Champlain canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3037763 — 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 Lake Champlain Context triple: [Gemini 5, recoveryShip, USS Lake Champlain]
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A.
USS Macdonough
USS Macdonough is the name given to several United States Navy warships honoring Commodore Thomas Macdonough, a notable naval officer from the War of 1812.
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B.
USS Niagara
USS Niagara was an American warship that served as Oliver Hazard Perry’s relief flagship and played a decisive role in securing U.S. victory at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
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C.
USS Guerriere
USS Guerriere was a U.S. Navy frigate of the early 19th century, notable for its service during the post-War of 1812 era under prominent American naval officers.
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D.
USS Preble
USS Preble was a U.S. Navy warship that gained distinction for its service during the War of 1812, particularly in the Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain.
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E.
USS Constitution
USS Constitution is a historic wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy, famed for her victories in the War of 1812 and recognized as the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat.
- 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 Lake Champlain Target entity description: USS Lake Champlain was a U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in World War II, the Korean War, and later as a recovery ship for early American crewed space missions.
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A.
USS Macdonough
USS Macdonough is the name given to several United States Navy warships honoring Commodore Thomas Macdonough, a notable naval officer from the War of 1812.
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B.
USS Niagara
USS Niagara was an American warship that served as Oliver Hazard Perry’s relief flagship and played a decisive role in securing U.S. victory at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
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C.
USS Guerriere
USS Guerriere was a U.S. Navy frigate of the early 19th century, notable for its service during the post-War of 1812 era under prominent American naval officers.
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D.
USS Preble
USS Preble was a U.S. Navy warship that gained distinction for its service during the War of 1812, particularly in the Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain.
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E.
USS Constitution
USS Constitution is a historic wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy, famed for her victories in the War of 1812 and recognized as the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Essex-class aircraft carrier
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United States Navy aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| aircraftCarried | carrier air wing of propeller-driven aircraft (WWII era) ⓘ |
| armament |
20 mm anti-aircraft guns
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40 mm anti-aircraft guns ⓘ 5-inch guns ⓘ |
| awards |
battle stars for Korean War service
ⓘ
battle stars for World War II service ⓘ |
| beam | about 93 feet ⓘ |
| builder | Norfolk Navy Yard ⓘ |
| category |
Essex-class aircraft carriers of the United States Navy
ⓘ
Korean War aircraft carriers of the United States ⓘ Space capsule recovery ships of the United States Navy ⓘ World War II aircraft carriers of the United States ⓘ |
| commissioned | 3 June 1945 ⓘ |
| conflict |
Korean War
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World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 2 May 1966 ⓘ |
| displacement | approximately 27,100 tons standard ⓘ |
| era | Cold War ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| hasFlightDeck | angled flight deck after modernization ⓘ |
| homeport | various U.S. Navy bases in the Atlantic Fleet ⓘ |
| hullNumber | CV-39 ⓘ |
| laidDown | 15 March 1943 ⓘ |
| launched | 2 November 1944 ⓘ |
| length | about 872 feet ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 33 knots ⓘ |
| modernization | SCB-27A modernization program ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Battle of Plattsburgh
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surface form:
Battle of Lake Champlain
|
| navalRegistry | United States Naval Vessel Register ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| placeBuilt | Portsmouth, Virginia ⓘ |
| propulsion |
four shafts
ⓘ
steam turbines ⓘ |
| role |
aircraft carrier
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spacecraft recovery ship ⓘ |
| scrapped | 1969 ⓘ |
| serviceBranch |
United States Navy
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Navy
|
| shipClass | Essex class ⓘ |
| spaceMissionRecovered |
Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7
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surface form:
Alan Shepard’s Freedom 7 capsule
Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 ⓘ
surface form:
Project Mercury mission MR-3 (Freedom 7)
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| status | scrapped ⓘ |
| type | fleet aircraft carrier ⓘ |
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 Lake Champlain Description of subject: USS Lake Champlain was a U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in World War II, the Korean War, and later as a recovery ship for early American crewed space missions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.