CV-9
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CV-9 is the hull number of USS Essex, a World War II-era Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that played a major role in Pacific Theater operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| CV-9 canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3910301 — 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: CV-9 Context triple: [USS Essex (CV-9), hullNumber, CV-9]
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A.
C-9
C-9 is a mountain railway line of Madrid’s Cercanías commuter rail network that connects the city with the Sierra de Guadarrama, including the Puerto de Navacerrada and Cotos areas.
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CV-4
CV-4 is the hull number of USS Ranger, the first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier designed and built from the keel up as a carrier.
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C.
CV-3
CV-3 was the hull classification symbol for USS Saratoga, a pioneering U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that served prominently from the interwar period through World War II.
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D.
CV-8
CV-8 is the hull number of USS Hornet, a famed World War II U.S. Navy aircraft carrier best known for launching the Doolittle Raid and participating in the Battle of Midway.
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E.
AC-9
The AC-9 was a class of massive 2-8-8-4 articulated steam locomotives built for the Southern Pacific Railroad, notable for their conventional (non-cab-forward) design and use in heavy freight service.
- 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: CV-9 Target entity description: CV-9 is the hull number of USS Essex, a World War II-era Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that played a major role in Pacific Theater operations.
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A.
C-9
C-9 is a mountain railway line of Madrid’s Cercanías commuter rail network that connects the city with the Sierra de Guadarrama, including the Puerto de Navacerrada and Cotos areas.
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B.
CV-4
CV-4 is the hull number of USS Ranger, the first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier designed and built from the keel up as a carrier.
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C.
CV-3
CV-3 was the hull classification symbol for USS Saratoga, a pioneering U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that served prominently from the interwar period through World War II.
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D.
CV-8
CV-8 is the hull number of USS Hornet, a famed World War II U.S. Navy aircraft carrier best known for launching the Doolittle Raid and participating in the Battle of Midway.
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E.
AC-9
The AC-9 was a class of massive 2-8-8-4 articulated steam locomotives built for the Southern Pacific Railroad, notable for their conventional (non-cab-forward) design and use in heavy freight service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Essex-class aircraft carrier
ⓘ
United States Navy ship ⓘ aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| airGroupCapacity | approximately 90–100 aircraft ⓘ |
| awarded |
13 battle stars for World War II service
ⓘ
4 battle stars for Korean War service ⓘ Navy Unit Commendation ⓘ Presidential Unit Citation (United States) ⓘ
surface form:
Presidential Unit Citation
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| beam |
28.3 m
ⓘ
93 ft ⓘ |
| builder | Newport News Shipbuilding ⓘ |
| classLeadShip | Essex class ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1942-12-31 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1947-01-09 ⓘ |
| displacement |
about 27,100 long tons standard
ⓘ
about 36,380 long tons full load ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| finalDecommissioning | 1969-06-30 ⓘ |
| followedBy | USS Yorktown (CV-10) ⓘ |
| homeport | Pacific Fleet ⓘ |
| hullNumber | CV-9 self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1941-04-28 ⓘ |
| laterReclassifiedAs | antisubmarine warfare carrier (CVS-9) ⓘ |
| launched | 1942-07-31 ⓘ |
| length |
265.8 m
ⓘ
872 ft ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 33 knots ⓘ |
| modernizedAs |
CVA-9
ⓘ
surface form:
attack aircraft carrier (CVA-9)
|
| namedAfter |
Essex County, Massachusetts
ⓘ
USS Essex (1799) ⓘ |
| notableFor | major role in Pacific Theater operations during World War II ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Leyte Gulf
ⓘ
Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign ⓘ Korean War operations ⓘ Marianas campaign ⓘ Battle of Okinawa ⓘ
surface form:
Okinawa campaign
U.S. invasion of Leyte ⓘ
surface form:
Philippines campaign
|
| placeBuilt | Newport News, Virginia ⓘ |
| precededBy | USS Wasp (CV-7) ⓘ |
| propulsion |
4 shafts
ⓘ
steam turbines ⓘ |
| recommissioned | 1951-01-16 ⓘ |
| role | fleet carrier ⓘ |
| shipClass | Essex class ⓘ |
| soldForScrap | 1975-06-01 ⓘ |
| strickenFromNavalRegister | 1973-06-01 ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
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: CV-9 Description of subject: CV-9 is the hull number of USS Essex, a World War II-era Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that played a major role in Pacific Theater operations.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
USS Essex (CV-9)
subject surface form:
USS Essex