S-220
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S-220 is the hull number of NOAA Ship Fairweather, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration vessel primarily used for hydrographic surveying and seafloor mapping.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| S-220 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6306457 — 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: S-220 Context triple: [NOAA Ship Fairweather, hullNumber, S-220]
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A.
S200
S200 is a pair of large solid rocket boosters used on India's GSLV Mk III heavy-lift launch vehicle to provide its initial thrust at liftoff.
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B.
S-23
S-23 is an International Hydrographic Organization publication that standardizes the naming and limits of the world’s oceans and seas.
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C.
M-22
M-22 is a scenic state highway in Michigan renowned for its picturesque route along the Lake Michigan shoreline and through the Leelanau Peninsula near Traverse City.
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D.
M22
M22 is a bright globular star cluster in the constellation Sagittarius, notable for being one of the closest and most easily observed globular clusters from Earth.
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E.
N228
N228 is a regional road in the Netherlands that provides access to and from the village of Benschop.
- 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: S-220 Target entity description: S-220 is the hull number of NOAA Ship Fairweather, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration vessel primarily used for hydrographic surveying and seafloor mapping.
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A.
S200
S200 is a pair of large solid rocket boosters used on India's GSLV Mk III heavy-lift launch vehicle to provide its initial thrust at liftoff.
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B.
S-23
S-23 is an International Hydrographic Organization publication that standardizes the naming and limits of the world’s oceans and seas.
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C.
M-22
M-22 is a scenic state highway in Michigan renowned for its picturesque route along the Lake Michigan shoreline and through the Leelanau Peninsula near Traverse City.
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D.
M22
M22 is a bright globular star cluster in the constellation Sagittarius, notable for being one of the closest and most easily observed globular clusters from Earth.
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E.
N228
N228 is a regional road in the Netherlands that provides access to and from the village of Benschop.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NOAA vessel hull number
ⓘ
hydrographic survey vessel ⓘ research vessel ⓘ ship hull number ⓘ |
| affiliation |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
ⓘ
United States Department of Commerce ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Department of Commerce
|
| areaOfOperation |
Alaska
ⓘ
Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| beam |
42 feet
ⓘ
about 12.8 meters ⓘ |
| builder | Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Company ⓘ |
| callsign | WTEF ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| displacement | approximately 1591 tons ⓘ |
| hasCrew |
NOAA Corps officers
ⓘ
civilian mariners ⓘ hydrographic survey technicians ⓘ |
| hasEquipment |
multibeam echosounders
ⓘ
side-scan sonar ⓘ single-beam echosounders ⓘ survey launches ⓘ |
| homePort |
Ketchikan, Alaska
ⓘ
linked to:
Ketchikan
|
| hullNumber | S-220 ⓘ |
| identifies | NOAA Ship Fairweather ⓘ |
| IMONumber | 8640501 ⓘ |
| isHullNumberOf | NOAA Ship Fairweather ⓘ |
| launchYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| lengthOverall |
231 feet
ⓘ
about 70.4 meters ⓘ |
| managedBy |
NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations
ⓘ
linked to:
Office of Marine and Aviation Operations
|
| operator |
NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations
ⓘ
linked to:
Office of Marine and Aviation Operations
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ⓘ |
| primaryMission |
hydrographic surveying
ⓘ
nautical charting support ⓘ seafloor mapping ⓘ |
| propulsion | diesel-electric ⓘ |
| registration | United States flag ⓘ |
| supports |
coastal navigation safety
ⓘ
seafloor habitat characterization ⓘ updating NOAA nautical charts ⓘ |
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: S-220 Description of subject: S-220 is the hull number of NOAA Ship Fairweather, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration vessel primarily used for hydrographic surveying and seafloor mapping.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
S-220