USS America (CV-66)
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USS America (CV-66) was a U.S. Navy supercarrier that served from the 1960s through the early 1990s, participating in major Cold War and post–Vietnam operations before being intentionally sunk in 2005 as a live-fire test platform.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USS America (CV-66) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10583731 — 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 America (CV-66) Context triple: [Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, includesShip, USS America (CV-66)]
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A.
USS Independence (CV-62)
USS Independence (CV-62) was a Forrestal-class U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that served from the late 1950s through the Cold War and into the 1990s, participating in major operations including the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm.
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B.
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) was a U.S. Navy Kitty Hawk–class supercarrier that served as a key conventionally powered aircraft carrier from the early 1960s until its decommissioning in 2009.
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C.
USS Ranger (CV-61)
USS Ranger (CV-61) was a U.S. Navy supercarrier that served from the late 1950s through the early 1990s, participating in Cold War operations and the Vietnam War.
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D.
USS Constellation (CV-64)
USS Constellation (CV-64) was a U.S. Navy supercarrier that served extensively during the Cold War and Vietnam War as part of the Kitty Hawk-class of aircraft carriers.
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E.
USS Saratoga (CV-60)
USS Saratoga (CV-60) was a U.S. Navy supercarrier that served during the Cold War and participated in major operations including the Vietnam War and the Gulf War.
- 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 America (CV-66) Target entity description: USS America (CV-66) was a U.S. Navy supercarrier that served from the 1960s through the early 1990s, participating in major Cold War and post–Vietnam operations before being intentionally sunk in 2005 as a live-fire test platform.
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A.
USS Independence (CV-62)
USS Independence (CV-62) was a Forrestal-class U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that served from the late 1950s through the Cold War and into the 1990s, participating in major operations including the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm.
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B.
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) was a U.S. Navy Kitty Hawk–class supercarrier that served as a key conventionally powered aircraft carrier from the early 1960s until its decommissioning in 2009.
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C.
USS Ranger (CV-61)
USS Ranger (CV-61) was a U.S. Navy supercarrier that served from the late 1950s through the early 1990s, participating in Cold War operations and the Vietnam War.
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D.
USS Constellation (CV-64)
USS Constellation (CV-64) was a U.S. Navy supercarrier that served extensively during the Cold War and Vietnam War as part of the Kitty Hawk-class of aircraft carriers.
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E.
USS Saratoga (CV-60)
USS Saratoga (CV-60) was a U.S. Navy supercarrier that served during the Cold War and participated in major operations including the Vietnam War and the Gulf War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier
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United States Navy ship ⓘ |
| aircraftCapacity | around 80–90 aircraft ⓘ |
| airWing |
Carrier Air Wing 1
NERFINISHED
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Carrier Air Wing 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ Carrier Air Wing 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| armament |
Phalanx CIWS
NERFINISHED
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RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles NERFINISHED ⓘ various 5-inch guns (early in career) ⓘ |
| awarded |
Battle Efficiency Award
NERFINISHED
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Meritorious Unit Commendation NERFINISHED ⓘ Navy Unit Commendation NERFINISHED ⓘ Southwest Asia Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Vietnam Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builder | Newport News Shipbuilding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1965-01-23 ⓘ |
| conflictParticipated |
Cold War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lebanon crisis of 1983 NERFINISHED ⓘ Operation Desert Shield NERFINISHED ⓘ Operation Desert Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ Operation El Dorado Canyon NERFINISHED ⓘ Vietnam War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1996-08-09 ⓘ |
| displacement |
approximately 60,000 tons standard
ⓘ
over 80,000 tons full load ⓘ |
| fate | sunk as target ⓘ |
| homeport | Norfolk, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hullNumber | CV-66 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1961-01-09 ⓘ |
| launched | 1964-02-01 ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | over 30 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature | first U.S. supercarrier intentionally sunk as a live-fire test target ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| propulsion |
conventional steam turbines
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oil-fired boilers ⓘ |
| servicePeriod | 1965–1996 ⓘ |
| shipClass | Kitty Hawk class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shipType |
aircraft carrier
ⓘ
conventional-powered aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| sinkingMethod | live-fire test ⓘ |
| sinkingPurpose |
survivability assessment of aircraft carriers
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weapons effects testing ⓘ |
| successorNameCarrier | USS America (LHA-6) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sunk | 2005-05-14 ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Atlantic Ocean
NERFINISHED
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Caribbean Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Indian Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ Mediterranean Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Persian Gulf 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: USS America (CV-66) Description of subject: USS America (CV-66) was a U.S. Navy supercarrier that served from the 1960s through the early 1990s, participating in major Cold War and post–Vietnam operations before being intentionally sunk in 2005 as a live-fire test platform.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.