BB-46
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BB-46 is the hull classification symbol for USS Maryland, a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BB-46 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T491390 — 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: BB-46 Context triple: [USS Maryland (BB-46), hullNumber, BB-46]
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A.
BB-44
BB-44 was the hull classification symbol for USS California, a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served notably during World War II.
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B.
BB-48
BB-48 is the hull classification symbol for USS West Virginia, a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that was damaged at Pearl Harbor and later modernized for World War II service.
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C.
BB-43
BB-43 is the hull classification symbol for USS Tennessee, a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during World War II.
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D.
BB-36
BB-36 is the hull classification symbol for USS Nevada, a U.S. Navy battleship notable for its service during both World Wars and survival of the Pearl Harbor attack.
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E.
BB-39
BB-39 is the hull classification symbol for USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
- 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: BB-46 Target entity description: BB-46 is the hull classification symbol for USS Maryland, a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during World War II.
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A.
BB-44
BB-44 was the hull classification symbol for USS California, a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served notably during World War II.
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B.
BB-48
BB-48 is the hull classification symbol for USS West Virginia, a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that was damaged at Pearl Harbor and later modernized for World War II service.
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C.
BB-43
BB-43 is the hull classification symbol for USS Tennessee, a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during World War II.
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D.
BB-36
BB-36 is the hull classification symbol for USS Nevada, a U.S. Navy battleship notable for its service during both World Wars and survival of the Pearl Harbor attack.
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E.
BB-39
BB-39 is the hull classification symbol for USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Colorado-class battleship
ⓘ
battleship ⓘ battleship class ⓘ hull classification symbol ⓘ |
| armament |
anti-aircraft guns
ⓘ
heavy naval guns ⓘ secondary batteries ⓘ |
| armamentType | naval artillery ⓘ |
| builtFor | United States Navy ⓘ |
| category |
Colorado-class battleship
ⓘ
surface form:
Colorado-class battleships of the United States Navy
United States battleship fleet ⓘ
surface form:
United States Navy battleships
World War II battleships of the United States ⓘ |
| class | Colorado-class battleship ⓘ |
| classShipCount |
Colorado-class battleship
ⓘ
surface form:
Colorado-class
|
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewType | enlisted sailors and officers ⓘ |
| design | standard-type battleship ⓘ |
| displacementType | standard displacement battleship ⓘ |
| era |
World War II
ⓘ
surface form:
World War II era
World War II era ⓘ interwar period ⓘ |
| hullNumber | BB-46 self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| launchedAs | USS Maryland (BB-46) ⓘ |
| material | steel hull ⓘ |
| member |
USS Colorado (BB-45)
ⓘ
surface form:
USS Colorado
USS Maryland (BB-46) ⓘ
surface form:
USS Maryland
USS West Virginia (BB-48) ⓘ
surface form:
USS West Virginia
|
| namedAfter |
Maryland
ⓘ
Maryland ⓘ
surface form:
State of Maryland
|
| navalForce | United States Navy ⓘ |
| navyBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| operator |
United States Navy
ⓘ
United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn | naval operations in the Pacific during World War II ⓘ |
| propulsion | steam turbine ⓘ |
| refersTo |
USS Maryland (BB-46)
ⓘ
surface form:
USS Maryland
|
| role | capital ship ⓘ |
| service | World War II ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| serviceStatus | retired ⓘ |
| shipType | dreadnought battleship ⓘ |
| theater |
Pacific War
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Theater
|
| usedBy | United States Navy in World War II ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Pacific War
ⓘ
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: BB-46 Description of subject: BB-46 is the hull classification symbol for USS Maryland, a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during World War II.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
USS Maryland