Bon Homme Richard
E610844
Bon Homme Richard was the original name planned for the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that entered service in World War II as USS Yorktown (CV-10).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bon Homme Richard canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6693536 — 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: Bon Homme Richard Context triple: [USS Yorktown (CV-10), previousName, Bon Homme Richard]
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A.
LaFayette
LaFayette is a small city in northwest Georgia, United States, known historically for its location in a gold-bearing region and its proximity to the Appalachian foothills.
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B.
Bayard
Bayard is a small town in Grant County, West Virginia, known historically as a coal and timber community in the Appalachian region.
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C.
Bayard
Bayard is a small rural city in western Nebraska known for its agricultural community and proximity to landmarks like Chimney Rock.
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D.
Bayard
Bayard is a masculine given name most notably associated with civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
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E.
William Alexander, Lord Stirling
William Alexander, Lord Stirling was an American Revolutionary War general who played a prominent role in early battles, notably helping cover the Continental Army’s retreat at the Battle of Long Island.
- 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: Bon Homme Richard Target entity description: Bon Homme Richard was the original name planned for the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that entered service in World War II as USS Yorktown (CV-10).
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A.
LaFayette
LaFayette is a small city in northwest Georgia, United States, known historically for its location in a gold-bearing region and its proximity to the Appalachian foothills.
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B.
Bayard
Bayard is a small town in Grant County, West Virginia, known historically as a coal and timber community in the Appalachian region.
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C.
Bayard
Bayard is a small rural city in western Nebraska known for its agricultural community and proximity to landmarks like Chimney Rock.
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D.
Bayard
Bayard is a masculine given name most notably associated with civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
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E.
William Alexander, Lord Stirling
William Alexander, Lord Stirling was an American Revolutionary War general who played a prominent role in early battles, notably helping cover the Continental Army’s retreat at the Battle of Long Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
planned ship name
ⓘ
proposed name of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| appliedToShip | USS Yorktown (CV-10) ⓘ |
| conflictContext | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| hullClassificationIntended | CV-10 ⓘ |
| languageOfName | French ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin’s “Poor Richard” persona)
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linked to:
Benjamin Franklin’s pen name "Poor Richard"
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| nameStatus | not ultimately used in service ⓘ |
| serviceBranchIntended | United States Navy ⓘ |
| sharesNameWith |
Bonhomme Richard (John Paul Jones’s Revolutionary War ship)
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USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) ⓘ USS Bon Homme Richard (LHD-6) ⓘ
linked to:
USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31)
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| shipTypeIntended | aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| wasOriginalNameFor | USS Yorktown (CV-10) ⓘ |
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: Bon Homme Richard Description of subject: Bon Homme Richard was the original name planned for the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that entered service in World War II as USS Yorktown (CV-10).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.