USS Mississippi
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USS Mississippi was a pioneering 19th-century sidewheel steam frigate of the United States Navy that played a key role in early steam-powered naval operations and in Commodore Perry’s opening of Japan to Western trade.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Mississippi canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6934625 — 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 Mississippi Context triple: [Matthew Calbraith Perry, shipCommanded, USS Mississippi]
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A.
USS Arkansas
USS Arkansas was a Wyoming-class battleship of the United States Navy that served in both World Wars before being used as a target and sunk during postwar atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.
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B.
USS Nashville
USS Nashville was a United States Navy light cruiser that served during World War II, participating in major Pacific campaigns and supporting amphibious operations.
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C.
USS Milwaukee
USS Milwaukee was a United States Navy warship whose deep-sea sounding work contributed to the discovery of the Milwaukee Deep, one of the deepest points in the Atlantic Ocean.
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D.
USS New Orleans
USS New Orleans was a U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship best known for serving as the primary recovery vessel for several Apollo space missions, including Apollo 14.
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E.
USS Chicago
USS Chicago was a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser that served in the Pacific during World War II, seeing significant action before being sunk in early 1943.
- 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 Mississippi Target entity description: USS Mississippi was a pioneering 19th-century sidewheel steam frigate of the United States Navy that played a key role in early steam-powered naval operations and in Commodore Perry’s opening of Japan to Western trade.
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A.
USS Arkansas
USS Arkansas was a Wyoming-class battleship of the United States Navy that served in both World Wars before being used as a target and sunk during postwar atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.
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B.
USS Nashville
USS Nashville was a United States Navy light cruiser that served during World War II, participating in major Pacific campaigns and supporting amphibious operations.
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C.
USS Milwaukee
USS Milwaukee was a United States Navy warship whose deep-sea sounding work contributed to the discovery of the Milwaukee Deep, one of the deepest points in the Atlantic Ocean.
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D.
USS New Orleans
USS New Orleans was a U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship best known for serving as the primary recovery vessel for several Apollo space missions, including Apollo 14.
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E.
USS Chicago
USS Chicago was a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser that served in the Pacific during World War II, seeing significant action before being sunk in early 1943.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
sidewheel steamer
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steam frigate ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| armament | naval guns ⓘ |
| builtAt | Philadelphia Navy Yard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
19th-century naval ship of the United States
ⓘ
steam frigates of the United States Navy ⓘ |
| commandedBy | Commodore Matthew C. Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissionedIn | 1841 ⓘ |
| conflictRole | Union warship ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewType | officers and enlisted sailors ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| fate | destroyed to prevent capture ⓘ |
| flagshipOf | East India Squadron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEngineType | steam engine ⓘ |
| hasHullType | wooden hull ⓘ |
| hasSailRig | auxiliary sail rig ⓘ |
| homePort | various U.S. Navy yards ⓘ |
| launchedIn | 1841 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navalArchitecturePeriod | transition from sail to steam ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long-range independent steaming capability
ⓘ
role in gunboat diplomacy ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Civil War
NERFINISHED
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Mexican–American War NERFINISHED ⓘ Perry Expedition to Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ opening of Japan to Western trade ⓘ |
| pioneerOf | steam-powered naval operations ⓘ |
| powerSource | coal-fired boilers ⓘ |
| propulsion | sidewheel steam ⓘ |
| scrapped | no ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| shipClass | Mississippi-class steam frigate ⓘ |
| sunkIn | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| technologySignificance | early ocean-going steam warship ⓘ |
| tookPartIn | Battle of Port Hudson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAs |
escort for diplomatic missions
ⓘ
showing the flag vessel ⓘ |
| usedFor |
blockade duty
ⓘ
combat operations ⓘ diplomatic missions ⓘ power projection ⓘ |
| visitedCountry | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visitedPort | Edo Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearSunk | 1863 ⓘ |
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 Mississippi Description of subject: USS Mississippi was a pioneering 19th-century sidewheel steam frigate of the United States Navy that played a key role in early steam-powered naval operations and in Commodore Perry’s opening of Japan to Western trade.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.