New Orleans-class cruiser
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The New Orleans-class cruiser was a class of U.S. Navy heavy cruisers built in the 1930s that saw extensive service during World War II, noted for their significant role in Pacific naval battles.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New Orleans-class cruiser canonical | 9 |
| New Orleans-class cruisers | 3 |
| New Orleans-class cruisers of the United States Navy | 2 |
| New Orleans-class heavy cruiser | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13221162 — 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: New Orleans-class cruiser Context triple: [USS Vincennes (CA-44), shipClass, New Orleans-class cruiser]
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A.
Cleveland-class cruiser
The Cleveland-class cruiser was a World War II–era class of U.S. Navy light cruisers known for their heavy anti-aircraft armament, numerous wartime deployments, and later conversions into guided missile cruisers.
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B.
Wichita-class cruiser
The Wichita-class cruiser was a class of U.S. Navy heavy cruisers built in the late 1930s that bridged the design between earlier treaty cruisers and the more advanced World War II-era Baltimore-class.
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C.
Olympia-class cruiser
The Olympia-class cruiser was a late 19th-century United States Navy protected cruiser class best known for its lead ship, USS Olympia, flagship of Commodore Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay.
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D.
Brooklyn-class cruiser
The Brooklyn-class cruiser was a class of United States Navy light cruisers built in the 1930s, known for their heavy main battery of fifteen 6-inch guns and extensive World War II service, with some ships later serving in foreign navies.
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E.
Ticonderoga-class cruiser
The Ticonderoga-class cruiser is a class of U.S. Navy guided-missile warships equipped with the Aegis combat system, designed for multi-role air, surface, and missile defense operations.
- 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: New Orleans-class cruiser Target entity description: The New Orleans-class cruiser was a class of U.S. Navy heavy cruisers built in the 1930s that saw extensive service during World War II, noted for their significant role in Pacific naval battles.
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A.
Cleveland-class cruiser
The Cleveland-class cruiser was a World War II–era class of U.S. Navy light cruisers known for their heavy anti-aircraft armament, numerous wartime deployments, and later conversions into guided missile cruisers.
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B.
Wichita-class cruiser
The Wichita-class cruiser was a class of U.S. Navy heavy cruisers built in the late 1930s that bridged the design between earlier treaty cruisers and the more advanced World War II-era Baltimore-class.
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C.
Olympia-class cruiser
The Olympia-class cruiser was a late 19th-century United States Navy protected cruiser class best known for its lead ship, USS Olympia, flagship of Commodore Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay.
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D.
Brooklyn-class cruiser
The Brooklyn-class cruiser was a class of United States Navy light cruisers built in the 1930s, known for their heavy main battery of fifteen 6-inch guns and extensive World War II service, with some ships later serving in foreign navies.
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E.
Ticonderoga-class cruiser
The Ticonderoga-class cruiser is a class of U.S. Navy guided-missile warships equipped with the Aegis combat system, designed for multi-role air, surface, and missile defense operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: New Orleans-class cruiser Description of subject: The New Orleans-class cruiser was a class of U.S. Navy heavy cruisers built in the 1930s that saw extensive service during World War II, noted for their significant role in Pacific naval battles.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
CA-44
linked to: New Orleans-class cruiser
linked to: New Orleans-class cruiser
subject linked to:
CA-34
linked to: New Orleans-class cruiser
subject linked to:
CA-32
subject linked to:
CA-38
linked to: New Orleans-class cruiser
subject linked to:
CA-38
linked to: New Orleans-class cruiser
subject linked to:
CA-33