DD-731
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DD-731 is the hull number of USS Maddox, a U.S. Navy destroyer best known for its involvement in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident during the Vietnam War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DD-731 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5554116 — 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: DD-731 Context triple: [USS Maddox (DD-731), hullNumber, DD-731]
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A.
DD-412
DD-412 was the hull number of USS Hammann, a Sims-class U.S. Navy destroyer that served in World War II and was sunk during the Battle of Midway.
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B.
DD-418
DD-418 was the hull classification and pennant number of USS Roe, a World War II-era Sims-class destroyer in the United States Navy.
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C.
DD-411
DD-411 was the hull number of USS Anderson, a Sims-class destroyer that served in the United States Navy during World War II.
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D.
DD-417
DD-417 was the hull number of USS Morris, a Sims-class destroyer that served with distinction in the United States Navy during World War II.
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E.
DD-413
DD-413 was the hull number of USS Mustin, a United States Navy Sims-class destroyer that served during World War II.
- 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: DD-731 Target entity description: DD-731 is the hull number of USS Maddox, a U.S. Navy destroyer best known for its involvement in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident during the Vietnam War.
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A.
DD-412
DD-412 was the hull number of USS Hammann, a Sims-class U.S. Navy destroyer that served in World War II and was sunk during the Battle of Midway.
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B.
DD-418
DD-418 was the hull classification and pennant number of USS Roe, a World War II-era Sims-class destroyer in the United States Navy.
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C.
DD-411
DD-411 was the hull number of USS Anderson, a Sims-class destroyer that served in the United States Navy during World War II.
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D.
DD-417
DD-417 was the hull number of USS Morris, a Sims-class destroyer that served with distinction in the United States Navy during World War II.
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E.
DD-413
DD-413 was the hull number of USS Mustin, a United States Navy Sims-class destroyer that served during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer
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United States Navy destroyer ⓘ |
| adversaryInIncident | North Vietnam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| armamentWartime |
10 × 21 in torpedo tubes
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11 × 20 mm AA guns ⓘ 12 × 40 mm AA guns ⓘ 6 × 5 in/38 caliber guns ⓘ depth charge projectors ⓘ |
| awarded |
Korean War battle stars
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Vietnam Service medals ⓘ World War II battle stars ⓘ |
| beam | 12.0 m ⓘ |
| builder | Bath Iron Works NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| class | Allen M. Sumner class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1944-06-02 ⓘ |
| conflict |
Korean War
ⓘ
Vietnam War ⓘ World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplementWartime | approximately 336 ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 1964-08-02 ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1972-07-02 ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | approximately 3,200 tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | approximately 2,200 tons ⓘ |
| draft | 4.6 m ⓘ |
| fate | transferred to Republic of China Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flag | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeport | various U.S. Pacific Fleet bases ⓘ |
| hullNumber | DD-731 ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1943-10-28 ⓘ |
| launched | 1944-03-19 ⓘ |
| length | 114.8 m ⓘ |
| locationOfEvent | Gulf of Tonkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 34 knots ⓘ |
| missionDuringIncident | signals intelligence patrol ⓘ |
| namedAfter | William A. T. Maddox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Gulf of Tonkin incident NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | DD-731 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| powerOutput | 60,000 shp ⓘ |
| propulsion |
2 geared steam turbines
ⓘ
4 boilers ⓘ |
| scrapped | after service in Republic of China Navy ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | World War II era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subsequentName | ROCS Po Yang (DD-10) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorOperator | Republic of China Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Gulf of Tonkin
NERFINISHED
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Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ Sea of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: DD-731 Description of subject: DD-731 is the hull number of USS Maddox, a U.S. Navy destroyer best known for its involvement in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident during the Vietnam War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.