New York Naval Shipyard
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The New York Naval Shipyard, also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was a major United States Navy shipbuilding and repair facility in Brooklyn, New York, that played a key role in constructing warships from the early 19th through the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New York Naval Shipyard canonical | 8 |
| New York Navy Yard | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2233851 — 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: New York Naval Shipyard Context triple: [USS Tennessee, builder, New York Naval Shipyard]
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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is a historic U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility located in Kittery, Maine, known especially for constructing and overhauling naval vessels including submarines.
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Dry Dock No. 3
Dry Dock No. 3 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable for its role in U.S. naval shipbuilding and repair.
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Dry Dock No. 2
Dry Dock No. 2 is a historic early-19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable for its role in U.S. naval shipbuilding and maritime engineering.
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Dry Dock No. 1
Dry Dock No. 1 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable as one of the oldest surviving naval dry docks in the United States.
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Dry Dock No. 4
Dry Dock No. 4 is a historic early-20th-century naval dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City, notable for its role in the construction and repair of U.S. Navy vessels.
- 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 York Naval Shipyard Target entity description: The New York Naval Shipyard, also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was a major United States Navy shipbuilding and repair facility in Brooklyn, New York, that played a key role in constructing warships from the early 19th through the mid-20th century.
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A.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is a historic U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility located in Kittery, Maine, known especially for constructing and overhauling naval vessels including submarines.
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B.
Dry Dock No. 3
Dry Dock No. 3 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable for its role in U.S. naval shipbuilding and repair.
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C.
Dry Dock No. 2
Dry Dock No. 2 is a historic early-19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable for its role in U.S. naval shipbuilding and maritime engineering.
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Dry Dock No. 1
Dry Dock No. 1 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable as one of the oldest surviving naval dry docks in the United States.
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E.
Dry Dock No. 4
Dry Dock No. 4 is a historic early-20th-century naval dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City, notable for its role in the construction and repair of U.S. Navy vessels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy installation
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historic district ⓘ naval shipyard ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Brooklyn Navy Yard ⓘ |
| area | about 300 acres ⓘ |
| builtShip |
USS Arizona (BB-39)
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USS Connecticut (BB-18) ⓘ USS Iowa ⓘ
surface form:
USS Iowa (BB-61)
USS Kearsarge ⓘ
surface form:
USS Kearsarge (BB-5)
USS Maine (ACR-1) ⓘ USS Missouri ⓘ
surface form:
USS Missouri (BB-63)
USS North Carolina (BB-55) ⓘ numerous auxiliary vessels ⓘ numerous cruisers ⓘ numerous destroyers ⓘ |
| closed | 1966 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1801 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| currentManager |
Brooklyn Navy Yard
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surface form:
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation
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| governedBy |
Bureau of Yards and Docks
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Department of the Navy ⓘ
surface form:
United States Navy Department
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| hasFacility |
dry docks
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foundries ⓘ machine shops ⓘ power plant ⓘ timber basins ⓘ |
| listedOn | National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brooklyn
ⓘ
New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York (state)
New York City ⓘ |
| locatedInNeighborhood | Wallabout Bay ⓘ |
| locatedOn | East River ⓘ |
| notableEra |
American Civil War
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War of 1812 ⓘ World War I ⓘ World War II ⓘ |
| opened | 1806 ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
United States government
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surface form:
United States federal government
|
| peakEmployment | over 70,000 workers during World War II ⓘ |
| postClosureUse |
commercial offices
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film and television production facilities ⓘ industrial park ⓘ manufacturing center ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
ship repair
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shipbuilding ⓘ |
| role |
key Atlantic Fleet shipbuilding center
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major industrial employer in Brooklyn ⓘ |
| significance | major U.S. naval shipbuilding and repair facility from early 19th to mid-20th century ⓘ |
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 York Naval Shipyard Description of subject: The New York Naval Shipyard, also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was a major United States Navy shipbuilding and repair facility in Brooklyn, New York, that played a key role in constructing warships from the early 19th through the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
New York Navy Yard
this entity surface form:
New York Navy Yard
this entity surface form:
New York Navy Yard
this entity surface form:
New York Navy Yard
this entity surface form:
New York Navy Yard
this entity surface form:
New York Navy Yard
subject surface form:
USS Tennessee (BB-43)
this entity surface form:
New York Navy Yard
this entity surface form:
New York Navy Yard