BB-48
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BB-48 is the hull classification symbol for USS West Virginia, a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that was damaged at Pearl Harbor and later modernized for World War II service.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BB-48 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T259921 — 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: BB-48 Context triple: [USS West Virginia (BB-48), hullNumber, BB-48]
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A.
BB-39
BB-39 is the hull classification symbol for USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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B.
BB-37
BB-37 is the hull number of USS Oklahoma, a Nevada-class battleship of the United States Navy that was sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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C.
BB-31
BB-31 was the original battleship designation for USS Utah, a Florida-class dreadnought that later served as a target and training ship for the U.S. Navy.
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D.
Bredius 439
Bredius 439 is the catalogue raisonné entry assigned to Rembrandt’s famous painting "The Night Watch" in Abraham Bredius’s authoritative listing of the artist’s works.
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E.
Bun
Bun is a modern, high-performance JavaScript runtime and toolkit designed as an alternative to Node.js and Deno, featuring a built-in bundler, test runner, and package manager.
- 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: BB-48 Target entity description: BB-48 is the hull classification symbol for USS West Virginia, a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that was damaged at Pearl Harbor and later modernized for World War II service.
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A.
BB-39
BB-39 is the hull classification symbol for USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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B.
BB-37
BB-37 is the hull number of USS Oklahoma, a Nevada-class battleship of the United States Navy that was sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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C.
BB-31
BB-31 was the original battleship designation for USS Utah, a Florida-class dreadnought that later served as a target and training ship for the U.S. Navy.
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D.
Bredius 439
Bredius 439 is the catalogue raisonné entry assigned to Rembrandt’s famous painting "The Night Watch" in Abraham Bredius’s authoritative listing of the artist’s works.
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E.
Bun
Bun is a modern, high-performance JavaScript runtime and toolkit designed as an alternative to Node.js and Deno, featuring a built-in bundler, test runner, and package manager.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Colorado-class battleship
ⓘ
United States Navy sailor ⓘ battleship ⓘ hull classification symbol ⓘ |
| armamentAA |
20 mm Oerlikon cannons (WWII)
ⓘ
40 mm Bofors guns (WWII) ⓘ 5-inch/38 caliber dual-purpose guns (WWII) ⓘ |
| armamentMain | 8 × 16-inch/45 caliber guns ⓘ |
| armamentSecondary | 12 × 5-inch/51 caliber guns (as built) ⓘ |
| armorBelt | up to 13.5 in ⓘ |
| armorDeck | up to 3.5 in ⓘ |
| armorTurrets | up to 18 in ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Navy Cross ⓘ |
| battleHonors | World War II battle stars ⓘ |
| beam | 97.3 ft ⓘ |
| builder |
Newport News Shipbuilding
ⓘ
surface form:
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
|
| class | Colorado class ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1923-12-01 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement |
approximately 1400 (peacetime)
ⓘ
approximately 1500+ (WWII) ⓘ |
| damagedIn |
attack on Pearl Harbor
ⓘ
surface form:
Attack on Pearl Harbor
|
| dateOfDamage | 1941-12-07 ⓘ |
| decommissionedOn | 1947-01-09 ⓘ |
| denotes |
USS West Virginia (BB-48)
ⓘ
surface form:
USS West Virginia
|
| displacementFullLoad | 33000+ long tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | 32500 long tons ⓘ |
| draft | 30.5 ft ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| followedBy | USS Washington (BB-56) ⓘ |
| homeportPreWWII |
Pearl Harbor (interwar and early WWII)
ⓘ
surface form:
Pearl Harbor
|
| hullNumber | BB-48 self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| laidDownAt | Newport News Shipbuilding ⓘ |
| laidDownIn | Newport News, Virginia ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1920-04-12 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1921-11-17 ⓘ |
| lengthOverall | 624 ft ⓘ |
| locationOfDamage |
Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii
|
| maximumSpeed | 21 knots ⓘ |
| modernizationFeatures |
enhanced torpedo protection
ⓘ
improved anti-aircraft armament ⓘ reconstructed superstructure ⓘ |
| modernizedFor | World War II service ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
West Virginia
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. state of West Virginia
|
| notableCrewMember | Doris Miller ⓘ |
| notableEvent | fired first American battleship salvo at Surigao Strait ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Iwo Jima
ⓘ
Battle of Leyte Gulf ⓘ Battle of Okinawa ⓘ Battle of Surigao Strait ⓘ |
| powerOutput | 28000 shaft horsepower ⓘ |
| precededBy |
USS Maryland (BB-46)
ⓘ
surface form:
USS Maryland
|
| propulsion |
electric drive
ⓘ
oil-fired boilers ⓘ steam turbines ⓘ |
| range | 8000 nautical miles at 10 knots ⓘ |
| resultOfAttack | sunk at berth ⓘ |
| returnedToServiceIn | 1944 ⓘ |
| salvaged | yes ⓘ |
| soldForScrapOn | 1959-08-24 ⓘ |
| soldTo | Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation ⓘ |
| sponsoredBy | Alice Wright Mann ⓘ |
| strickenOn | 1947-03-01 ⓘ |
| typeOfDamage |
bomb hits
ⓘ
multiple torpedo hits ⓘ |
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: BB-48 Description of subject: BB-48 is the hull classification symbol for USS West Virginia, a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that was damaged at Pearl Harbor and later modernized for World War II service.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
USS West Virginia