CV-13
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CV-13 is the hull number of USS Franklin, a U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that saw heavy combat and severe damage in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| CV-13 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8528401 — 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: CV-13 Context triple: [USS Franklin, hullNumber, CV-13]
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A.
CV-16
CV-16 is the hull designation of USS Lexington, a famed U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that saw extensive service in World War II and later became a museum ship.
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B.
CV-17
CV-17 is the hull number of USS Bunker Hill, a World War II-era Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.
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C.
CV-18
CV-18 is the hull classification and pennant number of USS Wasp, an Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II and the Cold War.
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D.
CV-10
CV-10 is the hull number of USS Yorktown, a famed Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and is now preserved as a museum ship.
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E.
CV-12
CV-12 is the hull number of USS Hornet, a famed U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that saw extensive service in World War II and later conflicts.
- 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: CV-13 Target entity description: CV-13 is the hull number of USS Franklin, a U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that saw heavy combat and severe damage in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
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A.
CV-16
CV-16 is the hull designation of USS Lexington, a famed U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that saw extensive service in World War II and later became a museum ship.
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B.
CV-17
CV-17 is the hull number of USS Bunker Hill, a World War II-era Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.
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C.
CV-18
CV-18 is the hull classification and pennant number of USS Wasp, an Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II and the Cold War.
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D.
CV-10
CV-10 is the hull number of USS Yorktown, a famed Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and is now preserved as a museum ship.
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E.
CV-12
CV-12 is the hull number of USS Hornet, a famed U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that saw extensive service in World War II and later conflicts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Essex-class aircraft carrier
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United States Navy aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| airGroupSize | approximately 90 to 100 aircraft ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attackedBy | Japanese dive bomber on 1945-03-19 ⓘ |
| awarded |
Battle stars for World War II service
ⓘ
Presidential Unit Citation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| beam | about 93 feet at waterline ⓘ |
| builder | Newport News Shipbuilding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| casualtiesIn1945Attack | Hundreds of crew killed or wounded ⓘ |
| category |
Essex-class aircraft carriers of the United States Navy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ships built in Newport News, Virginia ⓘ World War II aircraft carriers of the United States ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1944-01-31 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement | approximately 2,600 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1947-02-17 ⓘ |
| displacement |
approximately 27,100 long tons standard
ⓘ
approximately 36,380 long tons full load ⓘ |
| fate | Scrapped ⓘ |
| flightDeckBeam | about 147 feet ⓘ |
| followedBy | Other Essex-class carriers in wartime service sequence ⓘ |
| homeport | Pacific Fleet bases during World War II ⓘ |
| hullNumber | CV-13 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1942-12-07 ⓘ |
| launched | 1943-10-14 ⓘ |
| length | about 872 feet ⓘ |
| locationDuringAttack | Near the Japanese home islands ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Benjamin Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Severely damaged by Japanese air attack on 1945-03-19 ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| precededBy | USS Lexington (CV-16) in Essex-class sequence (design variant context) ⓘ |
| propulsion |
4 shafts
ⓘ
8 boilers ⓘ Steam turbines ⓘ |
| returnedToUnitedStates | 1945 after damage ⓘ |
| sawActionIn |
Leyte Gulf operations
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Okinawa campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippine Sea operations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scrapped | 1966 ⓘ |
| serviceEntryEra | World War II era ⓘ |
| shipClass | Essex class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | No longer extant ⓘ |
| survived | Severe bomb damage and fires in 1945 ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations | Pacific Theater of World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| topSpeed | about 33 knots ⓘ |
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: CV-13 Description of subject: CV-13 is the hull number of USS Franklin, a U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that saw heavy combat and severe damage in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.