CA-26
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CA-26 was the hull classification symbol for USS Northampton, a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser that served prominently in the Pacific during the early years of World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CA-26 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4217441 — 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: CA-26 Context triple: [USS Northampton (CA-26), hullNumber, CA-26]
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A.
CA-29
CA-29 was a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser named USS Chicago that served primarily in the Pacific during the interwar period and early World War II.
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B.
CA-MB
CA-MB is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code that uniquely identifies the Canadian province of Manitoba in international standards.
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C.
CA-5
CA-5 is a major Honduran highway that connects the capital city Tegucigalpa with the industrial hub of San Pedro Sula and other key regions.
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D.
CA-13
CA-13 is a United States congressional district in California represented in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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E.
CA 180
CA 180 is a major California state highway that runs from the Central Valley city of Fresno eastward into the Sierra Nevada, providing access to Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks.
- 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: CA-26 Target entity description: CA-26 was the hull classification symbol for USS Northampton, a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser that served prominently in the Pacific during the early years of World War II.
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A.
CA-29
CA-29 was a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser named USS Chicago that served primarily in the Pacific during the interwar period and early World War II.
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B.
CA-MB
CA-MB is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code that uniquely identifies the Canadian province of Manitoba in international standards.
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C.
CA-5
CA-5 is a major Honduran highway that connects the capital city Tegucigalpa with the industrial hub of San Pedro Sula and other key regions.
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D.
CA-13
CA-13 is a United States congressional district in California represented in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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E.
CA 180
CA 180 is a major California state highway that runs from the Central Valley city of Fresno eastward into the Sierra Nevada, providing access to Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy ship
ⓘ
heavy cruiser ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| aircraftCarried | floatplanes ⓘ |
| armament | anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| armamentMain | 9 × 8-inch/55 caliber guns ⓘ |
| armamentSecondary | 4 × 5-inch/25 caliber guns ⓘ |
| awarded | 6 battle stars ⓘ |
| beam | 66 ft ⓘ |
| callSign | Navy hull number CA-26 ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1930-05-17 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement | about 650 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| damagedBy | Japanese torpedoes ⓘ |
| dateOfServiceEntry | 1930 ⓘ |
| decommissionedOn | 1942-11-30 ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | 12200 long tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | 9100 long tons ⓘ |
| draft | 19 ft ⓘ |
| era |
World War II
ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ |
| fate | sunk in battle ⓘ |
| hullClassificationSymbol | CA-26 ⓘ |
| laidDownAt | Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Fore River Shipyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laidDownIn | Quincy, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1928-04-12 ⓘ |
| launchedBy | Bethlehem Steel Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1929-09-05 ⓘ |
| length | 600 ft ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 32 knots ⓘ |
| namesake | Northampton, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navalFleet | United States Pacific Fleet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Midway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of the Coral Sea (operations support) NERFINISHED ⓘ Guadalcanal Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Northampton-class cruiser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion |
four propeller shafts
ⓘ
oil-fired boilers ⓘ steam turbines ⓘ |
| role |
screening carrier task forces
ⓘ
surface action ship ⓘ |
| sponsor | Grace Coolidge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sunkDuring | Battle of Tassafaronga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sunkNear | Guadalcanal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sunkOn | 1942-11-30 ⓘ |
| theater | Pacific War ⓘ |
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: CA-26 Description of subject: CA-26 was the hull classification symbol for USS Northampton, a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser that served prominently in the Pacific during the early years of World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.