USS Bowfin (SS-287)
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USS Bowfin (SS-287) is a World War II-era American Balao-class submarine famed for its successful wartime patrols in the Pacific and preservation as a museum ship in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Bowfin (SS-287) canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T715612 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: USS Bowfin (SS-287) Context triple: [Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum, hasExhibit, USS Bowfin (SS-287)]
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A.
Astute-class submarine
The Astute-class submarine is a fleet of advanced nuclear-powered attack submarines built for the Royal Navy, known for their stealth, endurance, and sophisticated weapons and sensor systems.
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B.
USS Pampanito
USS Pampanito is a World War II-era Balao-class submarine preserved as a museum ship and memorial in San Francisco.
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C.
U-505 submarine
The U-505 submarine is a captured German World War II U-boat preserved as a historic naval artifact and war prize.
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D.
USS Maryland (SSBN-738)
USS Maryland (SSBN-738) is an Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine of the United States Navy, designed for strategic deterrence patrols.
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E.
USS Morris (DD-417)
USS Morris (DD-417) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that saw extensive and distinguished service in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat actions.
- 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 Bowfin (SS-287) Target entity description: USS Bowfin (SS-287) is a World War II-era American Balao-class submarine famed for its successful wartime patrols in the Pacific and preservation as a museum ship in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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A.
Astute-class submarine
The Astute-class submarine is a fleet of advanced nuclear-powered attack submarines built for the Royal Navy, known for their stealth, endurance, and sophisticated weapons and sensor systems.
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B.
USS Pampanito
USS Pampanito is a World War II-era Balao-class submarine preserved as a museum ship and memorial in San Francisco.
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C.
U-505 submarine
The U-505 submarine is a captured German World War II U-boat preserved as a historic naval artifact and war prize.
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D.
USS Maryland (SSBN-738)
USS Maryland (SSBN-738) is an Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine of the United States Navy, designed for strategic deterrence patrols.
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E.
USS Morris (DD-417)
USS Morris (DD-417) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that saw extensive and distinguished service in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat actions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Bowfin (SS-287) Description of subject: USS Bowfin (SS-287) is a World War II-era American Balao-class submarine famed for its successful wartime patrols in the Pacific and preservation as a museum ship in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Balao-class submarine