USS Yorktown (CV-10)
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USS Yorktown (CV-10) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that saw extensive service in the Pacific Theater during World War II and is now preserved as a museum ship in Charleston, South Carolina.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Yorktown (CV-10) canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1293580 — 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 Yorktown (CV-10) Context triple: [Battle of the Philippine Sea, aircraftCarrierInvolved, USS Yorktown (CV-10)]
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USS Yorktown (CV-5)
USS Yorktown (CV-5) was a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier of the Yorktown class that played a pivotal role in early World War II Pacific battles before being sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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USS Hornet (CV-12)
USS Hornet (CV-12) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that saw extensive service in World War II and is now preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California.
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C.
USS Lexington (CV-16)
USS Lexington (CV-16) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that served prominently in the Pacific Theater of World War II and later as a training carrier.
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USS Hornet (CV-8)
USS Hornet (CV-8) was a U.S. Navy Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of World War II best known for launching the Doolittle Raid and for its role in major Pacific battles before being sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
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USS Essex (CV-9)
USS Essex (CV-9) was the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s Essex-class aircraft carriers that played a major role in World War II Pacific 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: USS Yorktown (CV-10) Target entity description: USS Yorktown (CV-10) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that saw extensive service in the Pacific Theater during World War II and is now preserved as a museum ship in Charleston, South Carolina.
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A.
USS Yorktown (CV-5)
USS Yorktown (CV-5) was a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier of the Yorktown class that played a pivotal role in early World War II Pacific battles before being sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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B.
USS Hornet (CV-12)
USS Hornet (CV-12) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that saw extensive service in World War II and is now preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California.
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C.
USS Lexington (CV-16)
USS Lexington (CV-16) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that served prominently in the Pacific Theater of World War II and later as a training carrier.
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D.
USS Hornet (CV-8)
USS Hornet (CV-8) was a U.S. Navy Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of World War II best known for launching the Doolittle Raid and for its role in major Pacific battles before being sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
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USS Essex (CV-9)
USS Essex (CV-9) was the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s Essex-class aircraft carriers that played a major role in World War II Pacific operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Essex-class aircraft carrier
ⓘ
United States Navy aircraft carrier ⓘ museum ship ⓘ |
| airGroupSize | approximately 90–100 aircraft (WWII) ⓘ |
| armedConflict | World War II ⓘ |
| awarded |
Navy Unit Commendation
ⓘ
Presidential Unit Citation (United States) ⓘ
surface form:
Presidential Unit Citation
|
| battle |
Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Battle of the Philippine Sea ⓘ operations against Okinawa ⓘ operations in the Mariana Islands ⓘ operations in the Marshall Islands ⓘ |
| battleHonors |
Vietnam War service stars
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World War II battle stars ⓘ |
| beam | about 93 feet at waterline ⓘ |
| builder | Newport News Shipbuilding ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1943-04-15 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement | around 2,600 officers and enlisted (WWII) ⓘ |
| currentLocation |
Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
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surface form:
Charleston, South Carolina
|
| currentUse | museum ship ⓘ |
| decommissionedOn | 1970-06-27 ⓘ |
| displacement |
about 27,100 long tons standard
ⓘ
about 36,380 long tons full load ⓘ |
| flightDeckBeam | about 147 feet ⓘ |
| homeport | various Pacific Fleet bases during WWII ⓘ |
| hullNumber | CV-10 ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1941-12-01 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1943-01-21 ⓘ |
| length | approximately 872 feet ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 33 knots ⓘ |
| modernization |
angled flight deck added during postwar refit
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hurricane bow added during SCB-27/SCB-125 conversions ⓘ |
| museumAt | Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Siege of Yorktown
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surface form:
Battle of Yorktown
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| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| partOf | Essex class ⓘ |
| placeBuilt | Newport News, Virginia ⓘ |
| preservedSince | 1970s ⓘ |
| previousName | Bon Homme Richard ⓘ |
| propulsion |
4 shafts
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8 boilers ⓘ steam turbines ⓘ |
| renamedOn | 1942-09-26 ⓘ |
| renamedToHonor | USS Yorktown (CV-5) ⓘ |
| servicePeriod |
Korean War era
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Vietnam War era ⓘ World War II ⓘ |
| shipClass | Essex-class aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| theater |
Pacific Theater of Operations
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surface form:
Pacific Theater of World War II
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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 Yorktown (CV-10) Description of subject: USS Yorktown (CV-10) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that saw extensive service in the Pacific Theater during World War II and is now preserved as a museum ship in Charleston, South Carolina.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Essex-class aircraft carrier
subject surface form:
Essex-class aircraft carrier
subject surface form:
USS Essex (CV-9)