USS Walke (DD-416)
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USS Walke (DD-416) was a United States Navy destroyer that served prominently in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II before being sunk in the Guadalcanal campaign.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Walke (DD-416) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T302028 — 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 Walke (DD-416) Context triple: [Sims-class destroyer, notableShip, USS Walke (DD-416)]
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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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B.
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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C.
USS O’Brien (DD-415)
USS O’Brien (DD-415) was a World War II-era United States Navy destroyer that served in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters before being lost to damage sustained from a Japanese torpedo attack 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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E.
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.
- 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 Walke (DD-416) Target entity description: USS Walke (DD-416) was a United States Navy destroyer that served prominently in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II before being sunk in the Guadalcanal campaign.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
USS O’Brien (DD-415)
USS O’Brien (DD-415) was a World War II-era United States Navy destroyer that served in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters before being lost to damage sustained from a Japanese torpedo attack in 1942.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World War II naval ship
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destroyer ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| armament |
12 × 21-inch torpedo tubes
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5 × 5-inch/38 caliber guns ⓘ anti-aircraft guns ⓘ depth charges ⓘ |
| awards | 4 battle stars ⓘ |
| battle | Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ⓘ |
| beam | 36 feet 1 inch ⓘ |
| builder |
Charlestown Navy Yard
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surface form:
Boston Navy Yard
|
| campaign |
Battle of Guadalcanal
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surface form:
Guadalcanal campaign
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| commissionedDate | 27 April 1940 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| constructionSite | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| crewComplement | approximately 192 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | approximately 2,211 tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | approximately 1,570 tons ⓘ |
| draft | 13 feet 4 inches ⓘ |
| fate | sunk in action ⓘ |
| hullNumber | DD-416 ⓘ |
| laidDownDate | 31 May 1938 ⓘ |
| launchedDate | 20 October 1939 ⓘ |
| length | 348 feet ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Henry A. Walke ⓘ |
| navalFleet | United States Navy ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| propulsion |
geared turbines
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oil-fired boilers ⓘ steam turbines ⓘ |
| role |
convoy protection
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escort duties ⓘ screening capital ships ⓘ shore bombardment ⓘ |
| serviceEndYear | 1942 ⓘ |
| serviceEntryYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| shaftCount | 2 ⓘ |
| shipClass |
Sims-class destroyers
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surface form:
Sims-class destroyer
|
| sinkingCause |
Japanese naval gunfire
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underwater explosion, likely a torpedo or mine ⓘ |
| sinkingDate | 15 November 1942 ⓘ |
| sinkingLocation | off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands ⓘ |
| sponsor | Miss Agnes Walke ⓘ |
| successorShip | USS Walke (DD-723) ⓘ |
| sunkInBattle | Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Atlantic Ocean
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Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| topSpeed | 35 knots ⓘ |
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 Walke (DD-416) Description of subject: USS Walke (DD-416) was a United States Navy destroyer that served prominently in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II before being sunk in the Guadalcanal campaign.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sims-class destroyer