USS Sims (DD-409)
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USS Sims (DD-409) was the lead ship of her class of U.S. Navy destroyers that served in the early years of World War II before being sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Sims (DD-409) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T302021 — 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 Sims (DD-409) Context triple: [Sims-class destroyer, notableShip, USS Sims (DD-409)]
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A.
USS Milwaukee
USS Milwaukee was a United States Navy warship whose deep-sea sounding work contributed to the discovery of the Milwaukee Deep, one of the deepest points in the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
USS Hancock
USS Hancock was a prominent frigate of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, known for its early naval engagements against the British.
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C.
USS Providence
USS Providence was a prominent warship of the Continental Navy that served during the American Revolutionary War, participating in several key naval operations against British forces.
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D.
USS Maryland (BB-46)
USS Maryland (BB-46) was a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently in the Pacific Theater during World War II, including surviving and continuing operations after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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E.
USS West Virginia (BB-48)
USS West Virginia (BB-48) was a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that was sunk and later refloated and modernized after the Pearl Harbor attack, subsequently serving in major Pacific Theater operations during World War II.
- 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 Sims (DD-409) Target entity description: USS Sims (DD-409) was the lead ship of her class of U.S. Navy destroyers that served in the early years of World War II before being sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942.
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A.
USS Milwaukee
USS Milwaukee was a United States Navy warship whose deep-sea sounding work contributed to the discovery of the Milwaukee Deep, one of the deepest points in the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
USS Hancock
USS Hancock was a prominent frigate of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, known for its early naval engagements against the British.
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C.
USS Providence
USS Providence was a prominent warship of the Continental Navy that served during the American Revolutionary War, participating in several key naval operations against British forces.
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D.
USS Maryland (BB-46)
USS Maryland (BB-46) was a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently in the Pacific Theater during World War II, including surviving and continuing operations after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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E.
USS West Virginia (BB-48)
USS West Virginia (BB-48) was a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that was sunk and later refloated and modernized after the Pearl Harbor attack, subsequently serving in major Pacific Theater operations during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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 Sims (DD-409) Description of subject: USS Sims (DD-409) was the lead ship of her class of U.S. Navy destroyers that served in the early years of World War II before being sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sims-class destroyer
subject surface form:
Sims-class destroyer