USS Wasp (CV-7)
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USS Wasp (CV-7) was a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that served in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II before being sunk by a Japanese submarine in 1942.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USS Wasp (CV-7) canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6979151 — 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 Wasp (CV-7) Context triple: [USS Wasp (CV-18), namedAfter, USS Wasp (CV-7)]
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A.
USS Wasp
USS Wasp was a prominent warship of the American Revolutionary-era Continental Navy, known for its role in early naval engagements against British forces.
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B.
USS Yorktown (CV-5)
USS Yorktown (CV-5) was a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier of the Yorktown class that played a pivotal role in early World War II Pacific battles before being sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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C.
USS Essex (CV-9)
USS Essex (CV-9) was the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s Essex-class aircraft carriers that played a major role in World War II Pacific operations.
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D.
USS Hornet (CV-8)
USS Hornet (CV-8) was a U.S. Navy Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of World War II best known for launching the Doolittle Raid and for its role in major Pacific battles before being sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
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E.
USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)
USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) was an Independence-class light aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that saw extensive combat service in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
- 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 Wasp (CV-7) Target entity description: USS Wasp (CV-7) was a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that served in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II before being sunk by a Japanese submarine in 1942.
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A.
USS Wasp
USS Wasp was a prominent warship of the American Revolutionary-era Continental Navy, known for its role in early naval engagements against British forces.
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B.
USS Yorktown (CV-5)
USS Yorktown (CV-5) was a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier of the Yorktown class that played a pivotal role in early World War II Pacific battles before being sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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C.
USS Essex (CV-9)
USS Essex (CV-9) was the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s Essex-class aircraft carriers that played a major role in World War II Pacific operations.
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D.
USS Hornet (CV-8)
USS Hornet (CV-8) was a U.S. Navy Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of World War II best known for launching the Doolittle Raid and for its role in major Pacific battles before being sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
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E.
USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)
USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) was an Independence-class light aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that saw extensive combat service in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aircraft carrier
ⓘ
warship ⓘ |
| airGroupSize | about 70–80 aircraft ⓘ |
| armament |
8 × 5-inch/38 caliber guns
ⓘ
anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| awarded | 2 battle stars ⓘ |
| battle | Guadalcanal campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtAt | Fore River Shipyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDestruction | torpedo attack ⓘ |
| class | Wasp-class aircraft carrier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1940-04-25 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement | about 2,000 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| dateOfSinking | 1942-09-15 ⓘ |
| decommissionedOn | 1942-09-15 ⓘ |
| designConstraint | Washington Naval Treaty tonnage limits ⓘ |
| displacement | about 14,700 tons standard ⓘ |
| fate | sunk by torpedoes ⓘ |
| hullNumber | CV-7 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1936-04-01 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1939-04-04 ⓘ |
| length | about 688 feet ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 29 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | wasp ⓘ |
| navalRegistry | United States Navy hull classification symbol CV-7 ⓘ |
| notableOperation |
Malta aircraft ferry missions
ⓘ
Operation Bowery NERFINISHED ⓘ Operation Calendar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| partOf |
U.S. Atlantic Fleet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Pacific Fleet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfSinking |
Solomon Islands
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
south of San Cristóbal Island ⓘ |
| precededBy | Yorktown-class aircraft carrier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion | steam turbines ⓘ |
| role |
aircraft transport to Malta
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carrier air support ⓘ |
| serviceEntryEra | interwar period ⓘ |
| sponsoredBy | Annie Reid Knox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Essex-class aircraft carrier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorShipName | USS Wasp (CV-18) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sunkBy | Japanese submarine I-19 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theater |
Atlantic Ocean
NERFINISHED
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Mediterranean Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Wasp (CV-7) Description of subject: USS Wasp (CV-7) was a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that served in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II before being sunk by a Japanese submarine in 1942.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
USS Essex (CV-9)