CVA-9
E398332
CVA-9 was the postwar attack aircraft carrier designation for USS Essex (CV-9), a World War II-era Essex-class carrier that later served in the Korean War and beyond.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CVA-9 canonical | 3 |
| attack aircraft carrier (CVA-9) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3910339 — 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: CVA-9 Context triple: [USS Essex (CV-9), reclassifiedAs, CVA-9]
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A.
USS Langley (CVL-27)
USS Langley (CVL-27) was an Independence-class light aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that served in major Pacific Theater operations during World War II.
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B.
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) was a U.S. Navy Kitty Hawk–class supercarrier that served as a key conventionally powered aircraft carrier from the early 1960s until its decommissioning in 2009.
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C.
USS Yorktown (CV-10)
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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D.
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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E.
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) was an Essex-class U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that saw extensive combat service in the Pacific Theater during World War II, including major operations against Japan.
- 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: CVA-9 Target entity description: CVA-9 was the postwar attack aircraft carrier designation for USS Essex (CV-9), a World War II-era Essex-class carrier that later served in the Korean War and beyond.
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A.
USS Langley (CVL-27)
USS Langley (CVL-27) was an Independence-class light aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that served in major Pacific Theater operations during World War II.
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B.
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) was a U.S. Navy Kitty Hawk–class supercarrier that served as a key conventionally powered aircraft carrier from the early 1960s until its decommissioning in 2009.
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C.
USS Yorktown (CV-10)
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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D.
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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E.
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) was an Essex-class U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that saw extensive combat service in the Pacific Theater during World War II, including major operations against Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Essex-class aircraft carrier
ⓘ
aircraft carrier designation ⓘ fleet aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| appliedToShip | USS Essex (CV-9) ⓘ |
| appliedToShipClass | Essex-class aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| armament | carrier-based aircraft ⓘ |
| awards |
Presidential Unit Citation (US) for World War II service
ⓘ
battle stars for Korean War ⓘ multiple battle stars for World War II ⓘ |
| builder | Newport News Shipbuilding ⓘ |
| builtAt | Newport News, Virginia ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1942-12-31 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decommissionedOn | 1969-06-30 ⓘ |
| displacement | about 27000 tons standard ⓘ |
| era |
Cold War
ⓘ
post–World War II ⓘ |
| fate | scrapped ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1941-04-28 ⓘ |
| laterReclassifiedAs | CVS-9 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1942-07-31 ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 33 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Essex
ⓘ
surface form:
Essex (historic county in England)
Essex County, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| navalHullClassification | attack aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| partOf |
U.S. Pacific Fleet
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Pacific Fleet
|
| postwarRedesignationOf | CV-9 ⓘ |
| propulsion |
4 shafts
ⓘ
steam turbines ⓘ |
| reclassifiedAs | CVA-9 self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| refersTo | USS Essex (CV-9) ⓘ |
| role |
anti-submarine warfare carrier
ⓘ
attack aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| sawServiceIn | Korean War ⓘ |
| scrappedIn | 1970s ⓘ |
| servedInConflict |
Cold War
ⓘ
Korean War ⓘ World War II ⓘ |
| shipClass | Essex class ⓘ |
| shipType | attack aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Pacific Theater of Operations
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surface form:
Pacific Theater of World War II
|
| tookPartIn |
Korean War carrier air operations
ⓘ
Leyte Gulf operations ⓘ Philippine Sea operations ⓘ strikes against Japan in 1945 ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Naval Aviation
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surface form:
US Navy carrier aviation
|
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: CVA-9 Description of subject: CVA-9 was the postwar attack aircraft carrier designation for USS Essex (CV-9), a World War II-era Essex-class carrier that later served in the Korean War and beyond.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
USS Essex (CV-9)
this entity surface form:
attack aircraft carrier (CVA-9)
subject surface form:
USS Essex (CV-9)