USS Russell (DD-414)
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USS Russell (DD-414) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served prominently in the Pacific during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Russell (DD-414) canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T302026 — 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 Russell (DD-414) Context triple: [Sims-class destroyer, notableShip, USS Russell (DD-414)]
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USS Anderson (DD-411)
USS Anderson (DD-411) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that saw extensive service in World War II, participating in major Pacific campaigns and earning multiple battle stars before being sunk during atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.
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USS Hammann (DD-412)
USS Hammann (DD-412) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served in the early years of World War II in the Pacific before being sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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USS Mustin (DD-413)
USS Mustin (DD-413) was a United States Navy destroyer that served prominently in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat operations.
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USS Hughes (DD-410)
USS Hughes (DD-410) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served prominently in the Pacific Theater during World War II, participating in major battles and surviving a kamikaze attack.
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USS Sims (DD-409)
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.
- 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 Russell (DD-414) Target entity description: USS Russell (DD-414) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served prominently in the Pacific during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat operations.
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A.
USS Anderson (DD-411)
USS Anderson (DD-411) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that saw extensive service in World War II, participating in major Pacific campaigns and earning multiple battle stars before being sunk during atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.
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B.
USS Hammann (DD-412)
USS Hammann (DD-412) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served in the early years of World War II in the Pacific before being sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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C.
USS Mustin (DD-413)
USS Mustin (DD-413) was a United States Navy destroyer that served prominently in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat operations.
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D.
USS Hughes (DD-410)
USS Hughes (DD-410) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served prominently in the Pacific Theater during World War II, participating in major battles and surviving a kamikaze attack.
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E.
USS Sims (DD-409)
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bagley-class destroyer
ⓘ
U.S. Navy destroyer ⓘ |
| armament |
5 × 5-inch/38 caliber guns
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anti-aircraft guns ⓘ depth charges ⓘ torpedo tubes ⓘ |
| awarded | 16 battle stars ⓘ |
| beam | 35 feet 6 inches ⓘ |
| builder | Charleston Navy Yard ⓘ |
| class | Bagley class ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1939-11-03 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewComplement | about 250 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| decommissionedOn | 1946-11-15 ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | 2400 long tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | 1500 long tons ⓘ |
| draft | 9 feet 10 inches ⓘ |
| fate | decommissioned after World War II ⓘ |
| followedBy | USS Henley (DD-391) ⓘ |
| homeportDuringWWII | various Pacific bases ⓘ |
| hullNumber | DD-414 ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1937-12-20 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1938-12-08 ⓘ |
| length | 341 feet 3 inches ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 38 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Rear Admiral John Henry Russell ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Aleutian Islands campaign
ⓘ
Battle of Midway ⓘ Battle of Coral Sea ⓘ
surface form:
Battle of the Coral Sea
Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign ⓘ
surface form:
Gilbert Islands campaign
Solomon Islands campaign ⓘ
surface form:
Guadalcanal campaign
Battle of Iwo Jima ⓘ
surface form:
Iwo Jima operation
Mariana and Palau Islands campaign ⓘ Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign ⓘ
surface form:
Marshall Islands campaign
Battle of Okinawa ⓘ
surface form:
Okinawa operation
Philippines campaign (1941–1942) ⓘ
surface form:
Philippines campaign
|
| precededBy | USS Bagley (DD-386) ⓘ |
| propulsion |
2 propeller shafts
ⓘ
geared steam turbines ⓘ |
| role |
anti-submarine warfare
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escort duties ⓘ screening aircraft carriers ⓘ shore bombardment ⓘ |
| scrappedIn | 1948 ⓘ |
| soldForScrapOn | 1947-11-18 ⓘ |
| sponsor | Miss Elizabeth H. Russell ⓘ |
| strickenFromNavalRegisterOn | 1947-01-25 ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Pacific War
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surface form:
Pacific Theater of World War II
|
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 Russell (DD-414) Description of subject: USS Russell (DD-414) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served prominently in the Pacific during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat operations.
Referenced by (4)
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