Wheeler Shipbuilding
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Wheeler Shipbuilding was an American boatbuilding company best known for constructing the yacht Granma, which carried Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba in 1956.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wheeler Shipbuilding canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8231198 — 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.
Target entity: Wheeler Shipbuilding Context triple: [Granma, builder, Wheeler Shipbuilding]
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American Ship Building Company
American Ship Building Company was a prominent U.S. shipbuilding firm best known for constructing Great Lakes freighters and other commercial vessels during the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation was a major American shipbuilding company, particularly prominent in the early to mid-20th century for constructing numerous naval and commercial vessels.
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Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company was a major American shipyard in Kearny, New Jersey, that built numerous naval vessels, particularly destroyers, for the U.S. Navy during the early to mid-20th century.
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Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company was a prominent Scottish shipbuilding and engineering firm based on the River Clyde, renowned for constructing major Royal Navy warships and commercial vessels during the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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Crescent Shipyard
Crescent Shipyard was a prominent late-19th-century American shipbuilding yard in Elizabeth, New Jersey, best known for constructing John Philip Holland’s pioneering submarines for the U.S. Navy.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Wheeler Shipbuilding Target entity description: Wheeler Shipbuilding was an American boatbuilding company best known for constructing the yacht Granma, which carried Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba in 1956.
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A.
American Ship Building Company
American Ship Building Company was a prominent U.S. shipbuilding firm best known for constructing Great Lakes freighters and other commercial vessels during the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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B.
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation was a major American shipbuilding company, particularly prominent in the early to mid-20th century for constructing numerous naval and commercial vessels.
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C.
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company was a major American shipyard in Kearny, New Jersey, that built numerous naval vessels, particularly destroyers, for the U.S. Navy during the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company was a prominent Scottish shipbuilding and engineering firm based on the River Clyde, renowned for constructing major Royal Navy warships and commercial vessels during the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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Crescent Shipyard
Crescent Shipyard was a prominent late-19th-century American shipbuilding yard in Elizabeth, New Jersey, best known for constructing John Philip Holland’s pioneering submarines for the U.S. Navy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
boat builder
ⓘ
motor yacht ⓘ shipbuilding company ⓘ |
| activity |
constructing boats
ⓘ
designing boats ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Cuban Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Cuban Revolution (indirectly, via Granma) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Brooklyn, New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| builder | Wheeler Shipbuilding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtFor |
government agencies
ⓘ
private owners ⓘ |
| builtVessel | Granma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ceasedOperation | 20th century ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| displayedAt | Museum of the Revolution, Havana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | builder of the yacht used in the start of the Cuban Revolution ⓘ |
| industry |
boatbuilding
ⓘ
shipbuilding ⓘ |
| knownFor | constructing the yacht Granma ⓘ |
| launchedInDecade | 1940s ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| notableEvent | voyage from Tuxpan, Mexico to Cuba in 1956 ⓘ |
| notableWork | yacht Granma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedDuring | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator |
26th of July Movement
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fidel Castro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product |
commercial vessels
ⓘ
motorboats ⓘ pleasure craft ⓘ yachts ⓘ |
| status | preserved as a memorial in Havana ⓘ |
| supplied |
United States Coast Guard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
recreational cruising
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transporting revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Wheeler Shipbuilding Description of subject: Wheeler Shipbuilding was an American boatbuilding company best known for constructing the yacht Granma, which carried Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba in 1956.
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