La Fayette (R96)
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La Fayette (R96) was a French Navy aircraft carrier, originally the U.S. light aircraft carrier USS Langley (CVL-27), that served France from the early Cold War era into the 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Fayette (R96) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7128437 — 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: La Fayette (R96) Context triple: [USS Langley (CVL-27), newNameAfterTransfer, La Fayette (R96)]
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A.
Gourette
Gourette is a French mountain ski resort village in the Pyrenees, known for its alpine slopes and scenic high-altitude setting.
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B.
Kamorta-class corvette
The Kamorta-class corvette is a class of Indian-built anti-submarine warfare stealth corvettes designed for coastal and blue-water operations.
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C.
French battleship Bouvet
The French battleship Bouvet was a pre-dreadnought warship of the French Navy that famously sank after striking a mine during the Gallipoli campaign in World War I.
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D.
submarine Le Redoutable
Submarine Le Redoutable is a decommissioned French nuclear ballistic missile submarine, now preserved as a museum ship and major attraction at the Cité de la Mer in Cherbourg.
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E.
Type 26 frigate
The Type 26 frigate is a class of advanced, multi-mission Royal Navy warships designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare and global combat operations.
- 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: La Fayette (R96) Target entity description: La Fayette (R96) was a French Navy aircraft carrier, originally the U.S. light aircraft carrier USS Langley (CVL-27), that served France from the early Cold War era into the 1960s.
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A.
Gourette
Gourette is a French mountain ski resort village in the Pyrenees, known for its alpine slopes and scenic high-altitude setting.
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B.
Kamorta-class corvette
The Kamorta-class corvette is a class of Indian-built anti-submarine warfare stealth corvettes designed for coastal and blue-water operations.
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C.
French battleship Bouvet
The French battleship Bouvet was a pre-dreadnought warship of the French Navy that famously sank after striking a mine during the Gallipoli campaign in World War I.
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D.
submarine Le Redoutable
Submarine Le Redoutable is a decommissioned French nuclear ballistic missile submarine, now preserved as a museum ship and major attraction at the Cité de la Mer in Cherbourg.
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E.
Type 26 frigate
The Type 26 frigate is a class of advanced, multi-mission Royal Navy warships designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare and global combat operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French Navy ship
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aircraft carrier ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| acquiredFrom |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| alliance | NATO ⓘ |
| conflict | Cold War ⓘ |
| constructionLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| country | France ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| flag |
Flag of France
ⓘ
linked to:
French tricolour
|
| hullNumber | R96 ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
ⓘ
linked to:
Marquis de Lafayette
|
| navalBranch | Marine Nationale ⓘ |
| navalTheater |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Mediterranean Sea ⓘ |
| operator | French Navy ⓘ |
| origin | United States Navy ⓘ |
| predecessor | USS Langley (CVL-27) ⓘ |
| previousName | USS Langley (CVL-27) ⓘ |
| role | light aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | 1951 ⓘ |
| servicePeriod |
1960s
ⓘ
early Cold War ⓘ |
| shipClass | Independence-class aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| status | decommissioned ⓘ |
| type | light aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| usedBy |
French naval aviation
ⓘ
linked to:
French Naval Aviation
|
| usedFor |
aircraft transport
ⓘ
naval aviation operations ⓘ pilot training ⓘ |
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: La Fayette (R96) Description of subject: La Fayette (R96) was a French Navy aircraft carrier, originally the U.S. light aircraft carrier USS Langley (CVL-27), that served France from the early Cold War era into the 1960s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
CVL-27