USS Morris (DD-417)
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USS Morris (DD-417) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that saw extensive and distinguished service in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat actions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Morris (DD-417) canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T302029 — 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 Morris (DD-417) Context triple: [Sims-class destroyer, notableShip, USS Morris (DD-417)]
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A.
USS O’Brien (DD-415)
USS O’Brien (DD-415) was a World War II-era United States Navy destroyer that served in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters before being lost to damage sustained from a Japanese torpedo attack in 1942.
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B.
USS Mustin (DD-413)
USS Mustin (DD-413) was a United States Navy destroyer that served prominently in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat operations.
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C.
USS Hammann (DD-412)
USS Hammann (DD-412) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served in the early years of World War II in the Pacific before being sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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D.
USS Walke (DD-416)
USS Walke (DD-416) was a United States Navy destroyer that served prominently in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II before being sunk in the Guadalcanal campaign.
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E.
USS Anderson (DD-411)
USS Anderson (DD-411) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that saw extensive service in World War II, participating in major Pacific campaigns and earning multiple battle stars before being sunk during atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.
- 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 Morris (DD-417) Target entity description: USS Morris (DD-417) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that saw extensive and distinguished service in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat actions.
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A.
USS O’Brien (DD-415)
USS O’Brien (DD-415) was a World War II-era United States Navy destroyer that served in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters before being lost to damage sustained from a Japanese torpedo attack in 1942.
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B.
USS Mustin (DD-413)
USS Mustin (DD-413) was a United States Navy destroyer that served prominently in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat operations.
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C.
USS Hammann (DD-412)
USS Hammann (DD-412) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served in the early years of World War II in the Pacific before being sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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D.
USS Walke (DD-416)
USS Walke (DD-416) was a United States Navy destroyer that served prominently in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II before being sunk in the Guadalcanal campaign.
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E.
USS Anderson (DD-411)
USS Anderson (DD-411) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that saw extensive service in World War II, participating in major Pacific campaigns and earning multiple battle stars before being sunk during atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sims-class destroyer
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United States Navy destroyer ⓘ World War II warship ⓘ |
| armament |
12 × 21 in torpedo tubes
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5 × 5 in/38 caliber guns ⓘ anti-aircraft guns ⓘ depth charge projectors ⓘ |
| awarded |
Presidential Unit Citation (United States)
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surface form:
Presidential Unit Citation
|
| battleHonors | 15 battle stars ⓘ |
| beam | 36 ft 1 in ⓘ |
| builder | Norfolk Navy Yard ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1940-03-05 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement | about 192 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| damagedBy | kamikaze attack at Okinawa ⓘ |
| decommissionedOn | 1945-11-09 ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | 2477 long tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | 1570 long tons ⓘ |
| draft | 13 ft 4 in ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| hullNumber | DD-417 ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1938-06-07 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1939-06-01 ⓘ |
| length | 348 ft 3 in ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 35 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Charles Morris ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
attack on Pearl Harbor
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surface form:
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Battle of Leyte Gulf ⓘ
surface form:
Battle of Leyte
Battle of Midway ⓘ Battle of Coral Sea ⓘ
surface form:
Battle of the Coral Sea
Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign ⓘ Solomon Islands campaign ⓘ
surface form:
Guadalcanal Campaign
Mariana and Palau Islands campaign ⓘ Battle of Okinawa ⓘ
surface form:
Okinawa campaign
Solomon Islands campaign ⓘ |
| power | 50000 shp ⓘ |
| propulsion |
2 propeller shafts
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geared steam turbines ⓘ |
| range | 6490 nmi at 12 knots ⓘ |
| rescuedCrewFrom |
USS Lexington (CV-2)
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USS Yorktown (CV-5) ⓘ |
| role |
anti-aircraft defense
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rescue operations ⓘ screening aircraft carriers ⓘ |
| serviceEndYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| serviceStartYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| soldForScrapOn | 1947-08-02 ⓘ |
| sponsor | Mrs. C. S. Kempff ⓘ |
| strickenOn | 1945-11-28 ⓘ |
| theater |
Allied operations in the Pacific Theater of World War II
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surface form:
Pacific Theater of Operations
|
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 Morris (DD-417) Description of subject: USS Morris (DD-417) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that saw extensive and distinguished service in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat actions.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sims-class destroyer
subject surface form:
Sims-class destroyer
subject surface form:
USS O'Brien (DD-415)