American Ship Building Company
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American Ship Building Company was a prominent U.S. shipbuilding firm best known for constructing Great Lakes freighters and other commercial vessels during the late 19th and 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| American Ship Building Company canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3493888 — 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.
Target entity: American Ship Building Company Context triple: [The Boss, parentCompanyFoundedByFamily, American Ship Building Company]
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Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company was a major American shipyard in Kearny, New Jersey, that built numerous naval vessels, particularly destroyers, for the U.S. Navy during the early to mid-20th century.
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Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation was a major American shipbuilding company, particularly prominent in the early to mid-20th century for constructing numerous naval and commercial vessels.
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Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company was a prominent Scottish shipbuilding and engineering firm based on the River Clyde, renowned for constructing major Royal Navy warships and commercial vessels during the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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New York Shipbuilding Corporation
New York Shipbuilding Corporation was a major American shipyard based in Camden, New Jersey, known for constructing numerous U.S. Navy warships in the early to mid-20th century.
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E.
Newport News Shipbuilding
Newport News Shipbuilding is a major American shipyard in Virginia renowned for constructing U.S. Navy warships, including battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: American Ship Building Company Target entity description: American Ship Building Company was a prominent U.S. shipbuilding firm best known for constructing Great Lakes freighters and other commercial vessels during the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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A.
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company was a major American shipyard in Kearny, New Jersey, that built numerous naval vessels, particularly destroyers, for the U.S. Navy during the early to mid-20th century.
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B.
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation was a major American shipbuilding company, particularly prominent in the early to mid-20th century for constructing numerous naval and commercial vessels.
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C.
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company was a prominent Scottish shipbuilding and engineering firm based on the River Clyde, renowned for constructing major Royal Navy warships and commercial vessels during the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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D.
New York Shipbuilding Corporation
New York Shipbuilding Corporation was a major American shipyard based in Camden, New Jersey, known for constructing numerous U.S. Navy warships in the early to mid-20th century.
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E.
Newport News Shipbuilding
Newport News Shipbuilding is a major American shipyard in Virginia renowned for constructing U.S. Navy warships, including battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct company
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shipbuilding company ⓘ |
| activity |
ship construction
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ship design ⓘ ship repair ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States Midwest ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
expansion of bulk commodity trade in the Great Lakes region
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regional industrial development around the Great Lakes ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| historicalRole |
important contributor to U.S. maritime commerce
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major builder of Great Lakes commercial tonnage ⓘ |
| industry | shipbuilding ⓘ |
| market |
Great Lakes shipping industry
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North American inland waterways shipping ⓘ |
| notableFor |
construction of Great Lakes freighters
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construction of commercial vessels ⓘ |
| operatedInCentury |
19th century
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20th century ⓘ |
| operatedRegion | Great Lakes ⓘ |
| product |
bulk carriers
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commercial cargo ships ⓘ lake freighters ⓘ ore carriers ⓘ self-unloading freighters ⓘ |
| servedSector |
bulk commodities transport
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coal shipping ⓘ grain shipping ⓘ iron ore shipping ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfProminence |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ mid 20th century ⓘ |
| transportMode | water transport ⓘ |
| vesselOperatingArea |
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system
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surface form:
U.S.-Canada Great Lakes routes
freshwater routes ⓘ inland seas ⓘ |
| vesselTypeBuilt |
barges
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diesel-powered freighters ⓘ steam-powered freighters ⓘ steel-hulled freighters ⓘ tugs ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: American Ship Building Company Description of subject: American Ship Building Company was a prominent U.S. shipbuilding firm best known for constructing Great Lakes freighters and other commercial vessels during the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.