CV-8
E83373
CV-8 is the hull number of USS Hornet, a famed World War II U.S. Navy aircraft carrier best known for launching the Doolittle Raid and participating in the Battle of Midway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| CV-8 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T676661 — 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-8 Context triple: [USS Hornet (CV-8), hullNumber, CV-8]
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A.
CUHAV
CUHAV is the UN/LOCODE identifier for the port and city of Havana, the capital of Cuba.
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CV-5
CV-5 was the hull classification and pennant number of USS Yorktown, a famed U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that played a crucial role in early World War II Pacific battles before being sunk at Midway.
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C.
CVO
CVO is the IATA airport code for Corvallis Municipal Airport, a public airport serving Corvallis, Oregon, in the United States.
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D.
Crimson Typhoon
Crimson Typhoon is a three-armed Chinese Mark-4 Jaeger from the Pacific Rim universe, renowned for its agility and distinctive multi-pilot combat style against kaiju.
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E.
N84
N84 is a regional road that serves as a key junction route connecting to the town of Bastogne in Belgium.
- 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-8 Target entity description: CV-8 is the hull number of USS Hornet, a famed World War II U.S. Navy aircraft carrier best known for launching the Doolittle Raid and participating in the Battle of Midway.
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A.
CUHAV
CUHAV is the UN/LOCODE identifier for the port and city of Havana, the capital of Cuba.
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B.
CV-5
CV-5 was the hull classification and pennant number of USS Yorktown, a famed U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that played a crucial role in early World War II Pacific battles before being sunk at Midway.
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C.
CVO
CVO is the IATA airport code for Corvallis Municipal Airport, a public airport serving Corvallis, Oregon, in the United States.
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Crimson Typhoon
Crimson Typhoon is a three-armed Chinese Mark-4 Jaeger from the Pacific Rim universe, renowned for its agility and distinctive multi-pilot combat style against kaiju.
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E.
N84
N84 is a regional road that serves as a key junction route connecting to the town of Bastogne in Belgium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy ship
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World War II warship ⓘ Yorktown-class aircraft carrier ⓘ aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| aircraftLaunchedInDoolittleRaid |
North American B-25B Mitchell
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surface form:
B-25 Mitchell bombers
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| airGroupCapacity | about 80–90 aircraft ⓘ |
| armament |
8 × 5-inch/38 caliber guns
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anti-aircraft guns ⓘ machine guns ⓘ |
| awarded |
Presidential Unit Citation (United States)
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surface form:
Presidential Unit Citation
multiple battle stars ⓘ |
| beam | about 83 feet (waterline) ⓘ |
| builder | Newport News Shipbuilding ⓘ |
| builtAt | Newport News, Virginia ⓘ |
| commandingOfficerDuringDoolittleRaid |
Marc A. Mitscher
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surface form:
Captain Marc A. Mitscher
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| commissionedOn | 1941-10-20 ⓘ |
| crewComplement | approximately 2,000 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| decommissionedOn | 1942-10-26 ⓘ |
| displacement | about 20,000 tons (standard) ⓘ |
| fate | sunk in combat ⓘ |
| followedBy | USS Hornet (CV-12) ⓘ |
| hasCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| hasHullNumber | CV-8 ⓘ |
| hasName |
USS Hornet (CV-12)
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surface form:
USS Hornet
|
| hasShipClass | Yorktown class ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1939-09-25 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1940-12-14 ⓘ |
| length | about 809 feet ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 32.5 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
hornet
ⓘ
previous US Navy ships named Hornet ⓘ |
| notableCommander | Marc A. Mitscher ⓘ |
| notableFor |
launching the Doolittle Raid
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participation in the Battle of Midway ⓘ service in early Pacific War carrier battles ⓘ |
| operatedBy | United States Navy ⓘ |
| precededBy | USS Yorktown (CV-5) ⓘ |
| propulsion |
oil-fired boilers
ⓘ
steam turbines ⓘ |
| roleInDoolittleRaid | launched B-25 bombers for first air raid on Tokyo ⓘ |
| servedInTheater | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| servedInWar | World War II ⓘ |
| sunkBy |
Imperial Japanese Navy
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surface form:
Imperial Japanese Navy forces
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| sunkIn | Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands ⓘ |
| sunkInTheater |
Pacific War
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surface form:
Pacific Theater of World War II
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| sunkOn | 1942-10-26 ⓘ |
| tookPartIn |
Battle of Midway
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Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands ⓘ Doolittle Raid ⓘ Battle of Guadalcanal ⓘ
surface form:
Guadalcanal Campaign
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How these facts were elicited
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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-8 Description of subject: CV-8 is the hull number of USS Hornet, a famed World War II U.S. Navy aircraft carrier best known for launching the Doolittle Raid and participating in the Battle of Midway.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.