SS Palo Alto
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SS Palo Alto is a historic concrete ship built during World War I that now serves as a decaying, partially submerged landmark off the coast of Aptos, California.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SS Palo Alto canonical | 7 |
| SS Palo Alto concrete ship | 1 |
| concrete ship SS Palo Alto | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5036979 — 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: SS Palo Alto Context triple: [Aptos, California, United States, hasLandmark, SS Palo Alto]
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A.
SS Jeremiah O’Brien
SS Jeremiah O’Brien is a preserved World War II Liberty ship now serving as a museum vessel and historic attraction in San Francisco.
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B.
USS Turner Joy (DD-951)
USS Turner Joy (DD-951) was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of the United States Navy best known for its controversial role in the events that escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
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C.
USS Cassin Young
USS Cassin Young is a preserved World War II-era Fletcher-class destroyer now serving as a museum ship in Boston, Massachusetts.
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D.
USS Astoria
USS Astoria was a U.S. Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser that served in the Pacific during World War II before being lost early in the Guadalcanal campaign.
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E.
USS Olympia
USS Olympia is a historic U.S. Navy protected cruiser best known for serving as Commodore George Dewey’s flagship during the Spanish–American War and is now preserved as a museum ship.
- 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: SS Palo Alto Target entity description: SS Palo Alto is a historic concrete ship built during World War I that now serves as a decaying, partially submerged landmark off the coast of Aptos, California.
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A.
SS Jeremiah O’Brien
SS Jeremiah O’Brien is a preserved World War II Liberty ship now serving as a museum vessel and historic attraction in San Francisco.
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B.
USS Turner Joy (DD-951)
USS Turner Joy (DD-951) was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of the United States Navy best known for its controversial role in the events that escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
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C.
USS Cassin Young
USS Cassin Young is a preserved World War II-era Fletcher-class destroyer now serving as a museum ship in Boston, Massachusetts.
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D.
USS Astoria
USS Astoria was a U.S. Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser that served in the Pacific during World War II before being lost early in the Guadalcanal campaign.
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E.
USS Olympia
USS Olympia is a historic U.S. Navy protected cruiser best known for serving as Commodore George Dewey’s flagship during the Spanish–American War and is now preserved as a museum ship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concrete ship
ⓘ
historic shipwreck ⓘ |
| access | closed to the public ⓘ |
| builder | San Francisco Shipbuilding Company ⓘ |
| builtAt |
Oakland, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Oakland
|
| builtDuring | World War I ⓘ |
| builtFor | United States Shipping Board ⓘ |
| category |
Concrete ships
ⓘ
Shipwrecks of the California coast ⓘ Tourist attractions in Santa Cruz County, California ⓘ World War I-era ships of the United States ⓘ |
| completed | 1920 ⓘ |
| condition | structurally deteriorated ⓘ |
| connectedToShoreBy | pier ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1918 ⓘ |
| conversionYear | 1929 ⓘ |
| convertedTo | amusement ship ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Santa Cruz County, California ⓘ |
| damagedBy | storm ⓘ |
| featuresAfterConversion |
café
ⓘ
dance floor ⓘ swimming pool ⓘ |
| laidUp | after World War I ⓘ |
| launched | 1919 ⓘ |
| length | approximately 435 feet ⓘ |
| location |
Seacliff State Beach
ⓘ
off the coast of Aptos, California ⓘ |
| majorStormDamage | 1932 ⓘ |
| material | reinforced concrete ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a concrete ship
ⓘ
serving as a coastal landmark ⓘ |
| openedToPublic | 1930 ⓘ |
| originalUse | oil tanker ⓘ |
| ownership | California State Parks ⓘ |
| partOf |
Seacliff State Beach facilities
ⓘ
linked to:
Seacliff State Beach
|
| purchasedBy | Seacliff Amusement Corporation ⓘ |
| sawCombatService | no ⓘ |
| shipName |
Palo Alto
ⓘ
linked to:
Palo Alto, California
|
| shipType | tanker ⓘ |
| status |
decaying
ⓘ
partially submerged ⓘ |
| useAfterDamage | fishing pier attraction ⓘ |
| usedAs | habitat for marine life ⓘ |
| visibleFrom | shore at Seacliff State Beach ⓘ |
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: SS Palo Alto Description of subject: SS Palo Alto is a historic concrete ship built during World War I that now serves as a decaying, partially submerged landmark off the coast of Aptos, California.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: SS Palo Alto
linked to: SS Palo Alto