Essex-class aircraft carrier
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The Essex-class aircraft carrier was a highly successful and numerous class of U.S. Navy fleet carriers used extensively during World War II and into the early Cold War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Essex-class aircraft carrier canonical | 3 |
| Essex-class aircraft carriers | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9843033 — 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: Essex-class aircraft carrier Context triple: [Midway-class aircraft carrier, precededBy, Essex-class aircraft carrier]
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A.
Midway-class aircraft carrier
The Midway-class aircraft carrier was a class of large U.S. Navy carriers commissioned near the end of World War II that served for decades as key platforms for American naval air power.
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B.
Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier
The Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier is a class of U.S. Navy conventionally powered supercarriers that served as a key predecessor to the nuclear-powered Nimitz-class.
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C.
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is a class of U.S. Navy nuclear-powered supercarriers that has formed the backbone of American naval air power since the late 20th century.
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D.
Ark Royal-class aircraft carrier
The Ark Royal-class aircraft carrier was a pioneering class of British Royal Navy fleet carriers built in the late 1930s, notable for their enclosed hangars, armored protection, and significant role in early World War II naval aviation.
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E.
Independence-class aircraft carriers
The Independence-class aircraft carriers were a group of light carriers built for the U.S. Navy during World War II by converting Cleveland-class cruiser hulls to provide fast, versatile air support in the Pacific and Atlantic theaters.
- 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: Essex-class aircraft carrier Target entity description: The Essex-class aircraft carrier was a highly successful and numerous class of U.S. Navy fleet carriers used extensively during World War II and into the early Cold War.
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A.
Midway-class aircraft carrier
The Midway-class aircraft carrier was a class of large U.S. Navy carriers commissioned near the end of World War II that served for decades as key platforms for American naval air power.
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B.
Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier
The Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier is a class of U.S. Navy conventionally powered supercarriers that served as a key predecessor to the nuclear-powered Nimitz-class.
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C.
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is a class of U.S. Navy nuclear-powered supercarriers that has formed the backbone of American naval air power since the late 20th century.
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D.
Ark Royal-class aircraft carrier
The Ark Royal-class aircraft carrier was a pioneering class of British Royal Navy fleet carriers built in the late 1930s, notable for their enclosed hangars, armored protection, and significant role in early World War II naval aviation.
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E.
Independence-class aircraft carriers
The Independence-class aircraft carriers were a group of light carriers built for the U.S. Navy during World War II by converting Cleveland-class cruiser hulls to provide fast, versatile air support in the Pacific and Atlantic theaters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (73)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aircraft carrier class
ⓘ
warship class ⓘ |
| airGroupSize | about 90 aircraft ⓘ |
| armament |
12 × 5-inch/38 caliber dual-purpose guns
ⓘ
20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns ⓘ 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| armor |
belt armor up to 4 inches
ⓘ
flight deck armor up to 1.5 inches ⓘ |
| beam | 93 feet ⓘ |
| conflict |
Korean War
ⓘ
Vietnam War ⓘ World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement | about 2600 personnel ⓘ |
| designedFor | fast carrier task forces ⓘ |
| designedInPeriod | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designVariant |
long-hull Ticonderoga subclass
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short-hull Essex subclass ⓘ |
| draft | 28 feet ⓘ |
| firstShipCommissioned | USS Essex (CV-9) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstShipLaidDown | USS Essex (CV-9) GENERATED ⓘ |
| flightDeckBeam | 147 feet ⓘ |
| followedBy | Midway-class aircraft carrier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullLoadDisplacement | 36000 long tons ⓘ |
| influenced | postwar U.S. carrier design philosophy ⓘ |
| legacy | most numerous class of large aircraft carriers ever built ⓘ |
| lengthOverall | 872 feet ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 33 knots ⓘ |
| modernizationProgram |
SCB-125
ⓘ
SCB-27 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Battle of Iwo Jima
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Leyte Gulf NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Okinawa NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of the Philippine Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | high survivability and combat effectiveness in WWII ⓘ |
| notableShip |
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)
NERFINISHED
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USS Essex (CV-9) NERFINISHED ⓘ USS Hancock (CV-19) NERFINISHED ⓘ USS Hornet (CV-12) NERFINISHED ⓘ USS Intrepid (CV-11) NERFINISHED ⓘ USS Lexington (CV-16) NERFINISHED ⓘ USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) NERFINISHED ⓘ USS Yorktown (CV-10) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfShipsCommissionedDuringWWII | 17 ⓘ |
| numberOfShipsCompleted | 24 ⓘ |
| numberOfShipsPlanned | 32 ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| postwarConversion |
angled flight deck
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hurricane bow ⓘ steam catapults ⓘ |
| powerOutput | 150000 shaft horsepower ⓘ |
| precededBy | Yorktown-class aircraft carrier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion |
4 shafts
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8 boilers ⓘ steam turbines ⓘ |
| range | 20000 nautical miles at 15 knots ⓘ |
| role | fleet carrier ⓘ |
| serviceEntryYear | 1942 ⓘ |
| shipyard |
Bethlehem Steel, Quincy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brooklyn Navy Yard NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Naval Shipyard NERFINISHED ⓘ Newport News Shipbuilding NERFINISHED ⓘ Newport News, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Norfolk Navy Yard NERFINISHED ⓘ Philadelphia Naval Shipyard NERFINISHED ⓘ Puget Sound Naval Shipyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| someShipsReclassifiedAs |
anti-submarine warfare carrier (CVS)
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attack aircraft carrier (CVA) ⓘ auxiliary aircraft transport (AVT) ⓘ training carrier (CVT) ⓘ |
| standardDisplacement | 27000 long tons ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod |
Cold War
NERFINISHED
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World War II 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: Essex-class aircraft carrier Description of subject: The Essex-class aircraft carrier was a highly successful and numerous class of U.S. Navy fleet carriers used extensively during World War II and into the early Cold War.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
USS Saratoga (CV-3)
this entity surface form:
Essex-class aircraft carriers
this entity surface form:
Essex-class aircraft carriers
this entity surface form:
Essex-class aircraft carriers