USS New Orleans (CA-32)
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USS New Orleans (CA-32) was a New Orleans-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy that saw extensive action in the Pacific during World War II, earning numerous battle stars for its service.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS New Orleans (CA-32) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T781400 — 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)
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Target entity: USS New Orleans (CA-32) Context triple: [Battle of Tassafaronga, USShipHeavilyDamaged, USS New Orleans (CA-32)]
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USS Northampton (CA-26)
USS Northampton (CA-26) was a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser of the Northampton class that served in the Pacific during World War II until she was lost in late 1942.
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USS Minneapolis (CA-36)
USS Minneapolis (CA-36) was a New Orleans-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy that saw extensive combat in the Pacific during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for her service.
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C.
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently in both World Wars, particularly in the Pacific Theater.
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D.
USS Chicago
USS Chicago was a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser that served in the Pacific during World War II, seeing significant action before being sunk in early 1943.
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E.
USS California (BB-44)
USS California (BB-44) was a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served as the flagship of the Pacific Fleet and saw extensive action in World War II, including being sunk and later salvaged and modernized after the Pearl Harbor attack.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: USS New Orleans (CA-32) Target entity description: USS New Orleans (CA-32) was a New Orleans-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy that saw extensive action in the Pacific during World War II, earning numerous battle stars for its service.
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A.
USS Northampton (CA-26)
USS Northampton (CA-26) was a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser of the Northampton class that served in the Pacific during World War II until she was lost in late 1942.
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B.
USS Minneapolis (CA-36)
USS Minneapolis (CA-36) was a New Orleans-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy that saw extensive combat in the Pacific during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for her service.
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C.
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently in both World Wars, particularly in the Pacific Theater.
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D.
USS Chicago
USS Chicago was a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser that served in the Pacific during World War II, seeing significant action before being sunk in early 1943.
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E.
USS California (BB-44)
USS California (BB-44) was a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served as the flagship of the Pacific Fleet and saw extensive action in World War II, including being sunk and later salvaged and modernized after the Pearl Harbor attack.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Orleans-class heavy cruiser
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United States Navy cruiser ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| aircraftCarried | floatplanes ⓘ |
| armamentAA |
multiple 20 mm Oerlikon cannons
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multiple 40 mm Bofors guns ⓘ |
| armamentMain | 9 × 8-inch/55 caliber guns ⓘ |
| armamentSecondary | 8 × 5-inch/25 caliber guns ⓘ |
| awarded |
Presidential Unit Citation (United States)
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surface form:
Presidential Unit Citation
|
| battleHonors | 17 battle stars ⓘ |
| beam | 61 feet 9 inches ⓘ |
| builder |
New York Naval Shipyard
ⓘ
surface form:
New York Navy Yard
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| commissioned | 15 February 1934 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplementWartime | approximately 1,000 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 10 February 1947 ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | approximately 12,463 long tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | approximately 9,950 long tons ⓘ |
| draft | 19 feet 4 inches ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| homeportPrewar |
Pearl Harbor (interwar and early WWII)
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surface form:
Pearl Harbor
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| hullNumber | CA-32 ⓘ |
| laidDown | 14 March 1931 ⓘ |
| launched | 12 April 1933 ⓘ |
| length | 588 feet ⓘ |
| locationDuringPearlHarborAttack |
Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, United States
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surface form:
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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| namedAfter |
New Orleans
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surface form:
New Orleans, Louisiana
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| notableDamage | severe bow damage at Battle of Tassafaronga ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
attack on Pearl Harbor
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surface form:
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Battle of Midway ⓘ Battle of Tassafaronga ⓘ Battle of Coral Sea ⓘ
surface form:
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of the Philippine Sea ⓘ Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign ⓘ Solomon Islands campaign ⓘ
surface form:
Guadalcanal Campaign
Leyte Gulf operations ⓘ Marianas campaign ⓘ Battle of Okinawa ⓘ
surface form:
Okinawa campaign
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| propulsion |
8 boilers
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geared turbines ⓘ steam turbines ⓘ |
| repairLocation |
Sydney
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surface form:
Sydney, Australia
Tulagi ⓘ |
| scrappedAt |
Seattle, Washington, United States
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surface form:
Seattle, Washington
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| shaftCount | 4 ⓘ |
| shipClass | New Orleans class ⓘ |
| soldForScrap | 1957 ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Pacific War
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surface form:
Pacific Theater
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| topSpeed | 32.7 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: USS New Orleans (CA-32) Description of subject: USS New Orleans (CA-32) was a New Orleans-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy that saw extensive action in the Pacific during World War II, earning numerous battle stars for its service.
Referenced by (3)
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