U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus
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The U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus was a 1939 sinking of an American submarine during a test dive off New Hampshire that led to a dramatic deep-sea rescue and later inspired Peter Maas’s book "The Terrible Hours."
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| U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19545407 — 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: U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus Context triple: [Peter Maas, notableSubject, U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus]
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Soviet submarine K-19
Soviet submarine K-19 was a Cold War-era nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine of the Soviet Navy, infamous for a catastrophic 1961 reactor accident that exposed its crew to lethal radiation.
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B.
SS Carl D. Bradley shipwreck
The SS Carl D. Bradley shipwreck is the remains of a Great Lakes freighter that tragically sank in Lake Michigan during a 1958 storm, becoming one of the region’s most infamous maritime disasters.
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C.
Sinking of Steuben
The Sinking of Steuben was a World War II maritime disaster in the Baltic Sea in which the German passenger ship SS General von Steuben, carrying soldiers and civilians, was torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet submarine in February 1945 with heavy loss of life.
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shipwreck of the Tsimtsum
The shipwreck of the Tsimtsum is the catastrophic maritime disaster in "Life of Pi" that strands the protagonist at sea and sets the novel’s survival story in motion.
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E.
Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck
The Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck is the remains of a famous American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a 1975 storm on Lake Superior, becoming one of the region’s most legendary maritime disasters.
- 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: U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus Target entity description: The U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus was a 1939 sinking of an American submarine during a test dive off New Hampshire that led to a dramatic deep-sea rescue and later inspired Peter Maas’s book "The Terrible Hours."
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A.
Soviet submarine K-19
Soviet submarine K-19 was a Cold War-era nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine of the Soviet Navy, infamous for a catastrophic 1961 reactor accident that exposed its crew to lethal radiation.
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B.
SS Carl D. Bradley shipwreck
The SS Carl D. Bradley shipwreck is the remains of a Great Lakes freighter that tragically sank in Lake Michigan during a 1958 storm, becoming one of the region’s most infamous maritime disasters.
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C.
Sinking of Steuben
The Sinking of Steuben was a World War II maritime disaster in the Baltic Sea in which the German passenger ship SS General von Steuben, carrying soldiers and civilians, was torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet submarine in February 1945 with heavy loss of life.
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D.
shipwreck of the Tsimtsum
The shipwreck of the Tsimtsum is the catastrophic maritime disaster in "Life of Pi" that strands the protagonist at sea and sets the novel’s survival story in motion.
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E.
Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck
The Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck is the remains of a famous American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a 1975 storm on Lake Superior, becoming one of the region’s most legendary maritime disasters.
- F. None of above. chosen
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