CV-12
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CV-12 is the hull number of USS Hornet, a famed U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that saw extensive service in World War II and later conflicts.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4110820 — 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-12 Context triple: [USS Hornet (CV-12), hullNumber, CV-12]
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CVA-9
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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B.
CV-59
CV-59 is the hull classification and pennant number of USS Forrestal, the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s Forrestal-class supercarriers and one of the first supercarriers ever built.
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C.
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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CV-5
CV-5 was the hull classification and pennant number of USS Yorktown, a famed U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that played a crucial role in early World War II Pacific battles before being sunk at Midway.
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E.
USS Ranger
USS Ranger was a prominent sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, best known for its daring Atlantic operations under Captain John Paul Jones.
- 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-12 Target entity description: CV-12 is the hull number of USS Hornet, a famed U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that saw extensive service in World War II and later conflicts.
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A.
CVA-9
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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B.
CV-59
CV-59 is the hull classification and pennant number of USS Forrestal, the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s Forrestal-class supercarriers and one of the first supercarriers ever built.
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C.
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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CV-5
CV-5 was the hull classification and pennant number of USS Yorktown, a famed U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that played a crucial role in early World War II Pacific battles before being sunk at Midway.
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E.
USS Ranger
USS Ranger was a prominent sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, best known for its daring Atlantic operations under Captain John Paul Jones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Essex-class aircraft carrier
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United States Navy aircraft carrier ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| airGroupSize | approximately 90–100 aircraft (WWII) ⓘ |
| awarded |
Presidential Unit Citation (United States)
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surface form:
Presidential Unit Citation
battle stars for Korean War ⓘ battle stars for Vietnam War ⓘ multiple battle stars for World War II ⓘ |
| battleHonors |
Korean War operations
ⓘ
Vietnam War operations ⓘ Allied operations in the Pacific Theater of World War II ⓘ
surface form:
World War II Pacific Theater operations
|
| beam | about 93 feet (waterline) ⓘ |
| builder | Newport News Shipbuilding ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1943-11-29 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement | around 2,600 personnel (wartime) ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1970-06-26 ⓘ |
| designation | CV-12 self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| displacement |
approximately 27,100 tons (standard)
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approximately 36,380 tons (full load) ⓘ |
| flightDeckBeam | about 147 feet ⓘ |
| homeport | Alameda, California ⓘ |
| hullNumber | CV-12 self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1942-08-03 ⓘ |
| laterDesignation |
CV-12
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
CVA-12
CVS-12 ⓘ |
| launched | 1943-08-30 ⓘ |
| length | about 872 feet ⓘ |
| location | Alameda, California ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 33 knots ⓘ |
| museumOperator |
USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum
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surface form:
USS Hornet Museum
|
| namedAfter | Hornet ⓘ |
| NHLStatus | National Historic Landmark ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
participated in Pacific island-hopping campaign in WWII
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recovered Apollo 11 command module and astronauts ⓘ recovered Apollo 12 command module and astronauts ⓘ served as an anti-submarine warfare carrier during the Cold War ⓘ served as an attack carrier during the Vietnam War ⓘ supported carrier air strikes against Japan in WWII ⓘ |
| NRHPStatus | listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| partOf | Essex class ⓘ |
| propulsion |
4 shafts
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| role | aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| status | museum ship ⓘ |
| usedInConflict |
Cold War
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Korean War ⓘ Vietnam War ⓘ World War II ⓘ |
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-12 Description of subject: CV-12 is the hull number of USS Hornet, a famed U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that saw extensive service in World War II and later conflicts.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
USS Hornet (CV-12)
subject surface form:
USS Hornet (CV-12)
subject surface form:
USS Hornet (CV-12)
this entity surface form:
CVA-12
subject surface form:
USS Hornet (CV-12)