USS Houston (CA-30)
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USS Houston (CA-30) was a Northampton-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy that served as the flagship of the Asiatic Fleet and was sunk during the Battle of Sunda Strait in World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Houston (CA-30) canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3004767 — 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 Houston (CA-30) Context triple: [USS Chicago, followedBy, USS Houston (CA-30)]
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USS Portland (CA-33)
USS Portland (CA-33) was a U.S. Navy Portland-class heavy cruiser that saw extensive action in the Pacific Theater during World War II, including major engagements such as the Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal.
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USS Louisville (CA-28)
USS Louisville (CA-28) was a Northampton-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy that saw extensive combat service in the Pacific during World War II.
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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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D.
USS Pensacola (CA-24)
USS Pensacola (CA-24) was a U.S. Navy Pensacola-class heavy cruiser that served prominently in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning numerous battle stars for its combat operations.
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E.
USS Wichita (CA-45)
USS Wichita (CA-45) was a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser of the late 1930s and World War II that saw extensive combat service in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters.
- 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 Houston (CA-30) Target entity description: USS Houston (CA-30) was a Northampton-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy that served as the flagship of the Asiatic Fleet and was sunk during the Battle of Sunda Strait in World War II.
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A.
USS Portland (CA-33)
USS Portland (CA-33) was a U.S. Navy Portland-class heavy cruiser that saw extensive action in the Pacific Theater during World War II, including major engagements such as the Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal.
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B.
USS Louisville (CA-28)
USS Louisville (CA-28) was a Northampton-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy that saw extensive combat service in the Pacific during World War II.
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C.
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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D.
USS Pensacola (CA-24)
USS Pensacola (CA-24) was a U.S. Navy Pensacola-class heavy cruiser that served prominently in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning numerous battle stars for its combat operations.
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E.
USS Wichita (CA-45)
USS Wichita (CA-45) was a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser of the late 1930s and World War II that saw extensive combat service in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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 Houston (CA-30) Description of subject: USS Houston (CA-30) was a Northampton-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy that served as the flagship of the Asiatic Fleet and was sunk during the Battle of Sunda Strait in World War II.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.