USNS Sally Ride (T-AGOR-28)
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Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research ship
United States Naval Ship
United States Navy ship
oceanographic research vessel
USNS Sally Ride (T-AGOR-28) is a U.S. Navy oceanographic research vessel named in honor of astronaut and physicist Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USNS Sally Ride | 4 |
| USNS Sally Ride (T-AGOR-28) canonical | 2 |
| R/V Sally Ride (AGOR-28) | 1 |
| United States Naval Ship Sally Ride | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T356529 — 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: USNS Sally Ride (T-AGOR-28) Context triple: [Sally K. Ride, honorificEponym, USNS Sally Ride (T-AGOR-28)]
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A.
SS Jeremiah O’Brien
SS Jeremiah O’Brien is a preserved World War II Liberty ship now serving as a museum vessel and historic attraction in San Francisco.
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B.
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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C.
USS Pampanito
USS Pampanito is a World War II-era Balao-class submarine preserved as a museum ship and memorial in San Francisco.
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D.
USS Utah (AG-16)
USS Utah (AG-16) was a former U.S. battleship converted to a target and training ship that was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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E.
USS Bonhomme Richard
USS Bonhomme Richard was a famed Revolutionary War frigate commanded by John Paul Jones, best known for its victory over HMS Serapis in 1779 despite being heavily damaged.
- 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: USNS Sally Ride (T-AGOR-28) Target entity description: USNS Sally Ride (T-AGOR-28) is a U.S. Navy oceanographic research vessel named in honor of astronaut and physicist Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.
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A.
SS Jeremiah O’Brien
SS Jeremiah O’Brien is a preserved World War II Liberty ship now serving as a museum vessel and historic attraction in San Francisco.
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B.
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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C.
USS Pampanito
USS Pampanito is a World War II-era Balao-class submarine preserved as a museum ship and memorial in San Francisco.
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D.
USS Utah (AG-16)
USS Utah (AG-16) was a former U.S. battleship converted to a target and training ship that was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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E.
USS Bonhomme Richard
USS Bonhomme Richard was a famed Revolutionary War frigate commanded by John Paul Jones, best known for its victory over HMS Serapis in 1779 despite being heavily damaged.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research ship
ⓘ
United States Naval Ship ⓘ United States Navy ship ⓘ oceanographic research vessel ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Department of the Navy
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Department of the Navy
|
| assignedTo | Scripps Institution of Oceanography ⓘ |
| branchOfService | United States Navy ⓘ |
| builder | Dakota Creek Industries ⓘ |
| builtAt |
Anacortes
ⓘ
surface form:
Anacortes, Washington
|
| class | Neil Armstrong class ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasCallSign |
USNS Sally Ride (T-AGOR-28)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Naval Ship Sally Ride
|
| hasCrewType | civilian mariners ⓘ |
| hasEmbarkedPersonnel |
scientists
ⓘ
technical staff ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
accommodations for embarked scientists
ⓘ
dynamic positioning system ⓘ laboratories for scientific research ⓘ oceanographic winches and cranes ⓘ |
| homeport |
San Diego, California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
San Diego, California
Scripps Institution of Oceanography pier ⓘ |
| honors |
Sally K. Ride
ⓘ
surface form:
Sally Ride
|
| hullClassificationSymbol | T-AGOR-28 ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Sally K. Ride
ⓘ
surface form:
Sally Ride
|
| namedEntity | ship ⓘ |
| namedForDistinction | first American woman in space ⓘ |
| namedForOccupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
physicist ⓘ |
| operator | Military Sealift Command ⓘ |
| owner | United States Navy ⓘ |
| partOf |
Military Sealift Command
ⓘ
surface form:
Military Sealift Command Special Mission Program
|
| prefix | USNS ⓘ |
| primaryMission |
oceanographic research
ⓘ
support of naval oceanography ⓘ |
| propulsionType | diesel-electric propulsion ⓘ |
| researchField |
marine science
ⓘ
oceanography ⓘ |
| serviceRole | research support vessel ⓘ |
| shipClass | Neil Armstrong-class oceanographic research ship ⓘ |
| status | in active service ⓘ |
| type | auxiliary ship ⓘ |
| use |
collection of oceanographic data
ⓘ
support of marine science experiments ⓘ support of oceanographic surveys ⓘ |
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: USNS Sally Ride (T-AGOR-28) Description of subject: USNS Sally Ride (T-AGOR-28) is a U.S. Navy oceanographic research vessel named in honor of astronaut and physicist Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
United States Naval Ship Sally Ride
this entity surface form:
USNS Sally Ride
this entity surface form:
R/V Sally Ride (AGOR-28)
this entity surface form:
USNS Sally Ride