USS Langley
E408436
USS Langley was the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier, converted from a collier and used as a pioneering platform for naval aviation development in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USS Langley canonical | 2 |
| USS Langley (CV-1) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4044869 — 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 Langley Context triple: [Marc A. Mitscher, notableCommanderOf, USS Langley]
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A.
USS Langley (CVL-27)
USS Langley (CVL-27) was an Independence-class light aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that served in major Pacific Theater operations during World War II.
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B.
USS Wasp
USS Wasp was a prominent warship of the American Revolutionary-era Continental Navy, known for its role in early naval engagements against British forces.
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C.
USS Ranger
USS Ranger was a prominent sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, best known for its daring Atlantic operations under Captain John Paul Jones.
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D.
USS Lexington
USS Lexington was a prominent warship of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, known for its early naval engagements against British forces.
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E.
USS Saratoga
USS Saratoga was a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, originally commissioned in the 1920s, that later became notable as a target ship in early post–World War II nuclear weapons tests.
- 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 Langley Target entity description: USS Langley was the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier, converted from a collier and used as a pioneering platform for naval aviation development in the early 20th century.
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A.
USS Langley (CVL-27)
USS Langley (CVL-27) was an Independence-class light aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that served in major Pacific Theater operations during World War II.
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B.
USS Wasp
USS Wasp was a prominent warship of the American Revolutionary-era Continental Navy, known for its role in early naval engagements against British forces.
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C.
USS Ranger
USS Ranger was a prominent sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, best known for its daring Atlantic operations under Captain John Paul Jones.
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D.
USS Lexington
USS Lexington was a prominent warship of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, known for its early naval engagements against British forces.
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E.
USS Saratoga
USS Saratoga was a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, originally commissioned in the 1920s, that later became notable as a target ship in early post–World War II nuclear weapons tests.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy ship
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aircraft carrier ⓘ collier conversion ⓘ experimental ship ⓘ |
| aircraftCapacity | about 34 aircraft ⓘ |
| armament | 4-inch guns ⓘ |
| beam |
20 m
ⓘ
65 ft ⓘ |
| builder | Mare Island Naval Shipyard ⓘ |
| category |
Ships built in Vallejo, California
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United States Navy aircraft carriers ⓘ World War II auxiliary ships of the United States ⓘ |
| causeOfSinking | Japanese air attack ⓘ |
| commissionedAsJupiterDate | 1913-04-07 ⓘ |
| commissionedAsLangleyDate | 1922-03-20 ⓘ |
| conversionCompletionDate | 1922-03-20 ⓘ |
| conversionStartDate | 1919-03-11 ⓘ |
| conversionType |
aircraft carrier
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seaplane tender ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| crewComplement | approximately 468 ⓘ |
| dateOfSinking | 1942-02-27 ⓘ |
| displacement | about 11,500 long tons ⓘ |
| fate | sunk ⓘ |
| flightDeckType | full-length wooden flight deck ⓘ |
| homePort |
Norfolk, Virginia
ⓘ
San Diego, California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
San Diego, California
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| hullNumber |
AV-3
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CV-1 ⓘ |
| influenced | design of later U.S. aircraft carriers ⓘ |
| laidDownAs | USS Jupiter ⓘ |
| laidDownDate | 1911-10-18 ⓘ |
| launchDateAsJupiter | 1912-08-14 ⓘ |
| length |
165 m
ⓘ
542 ft ⓘ |
| locationOfSinking | south of Java ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 15 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Samuel Pierpont Langley ⓘ |
| notableAs | first United States Navy aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first U.S. Navy carrier takeoff and landing tests ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| originalHullNumber | AC-3 ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
World War I as collier USS Jupiter
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World War II as seaplane tender ⓘ |
| previousHullNumber | AC-3 ⓘ |
| previousName | USS Jupiter ⓘ |
| propulsion |
electric drive
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| reclassifiedAs | seaplane tender ⓘ |
| reclassifiedDate | 1937-04-21 ⓘ |
| reclassifiedHullNumber | AV-3 ⓘ |
| role |
experimental carrier
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seaplane tender in World War II ⓘ test platform for naval aviation ⓘ training carrier ⓘ |
| scuttledBy | escort ships after disabling damage ⓘ |
| shipTypeAtLaunch | collier ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Asiatic Fleet in the Western Pacific
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surface form:
Asiatic Fleet area
Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| usedFor |
arresting gear development
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carrier landing experiments ⓘ catapult trials ⓘ development of carrier operations doctrine ⓘ pilot training ⓘ |
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 Langley Description of subject: USS Langley was the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier, converted from a collier and used as a pioneering platform for naval aviation development in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
USS Lexington (CV-2)
this entity surface form:
USS Langley (CV-1)
subject surface form:
USS Ranger