BB-40
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BB-40 is the hull classification symbol for USS New Mexico, a U.S. Navy battleship that served primarily during the early to mid-20th century, including World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| BB-40 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7521217 — 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: BB-40 Context triple: [USS New Mexico (BB-40), hullNumber, BB-40]
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A.
BB-44
BB-44 was the hull classification symbol for USS California, a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served notably during World War II.
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B.
BB-43
BB-43 is the hull classification symbol for USS Tennessee, a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during World War II.
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C.
BB-47
BB-47 was the hull number assigned to the canceled South Dakota–class battleship USS Washington, a U.S. Navy capital ship scrapped under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty before completion.
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D.
BB-45
BB-45 is the hull classification symbol for USS Colorado, a Colorado-class battleship that served in the United States Navy during the early to mid-20th century, including World War II.
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E.
BB-48
BB-48 is the hull classification symbol for USS West Virginia, a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that was damaged at Pearl Harbor and later modernized for World War II service.
- 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: BB-40 Target entity description: BB-40 is the hull classification symbol for USS New Mexico, a U.S. Navy battleship that served primarily during the early to mid-20th century, including World War II.
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A.
BB-44
BB-44 was the hull classification symbol for USS California, a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served notably during World War II.
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B.
BB-43
BB-43 is the hull classification symbol for USS Tennessee, a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during World War II.
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C.
BB-47
BB-47 was the hull number assigned to the canceled South Dakota–class battleship USS Washington, a U.S. Navy capital ship scrapped under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty before completion.
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D.
BB-45
BB-45 is the hull classification symbol for USS Colorado, a Colorado-class battleship that served in the United States Navy during the early to mid-20th century, including World War II.
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E.
BB-48
BB-48 is the hull classification symbol for USS West Virginia, a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that was damaged at Pearl Harbor and later modernized for World War II service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy ship
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battleship ⓘ hull classification symbol ⓘ |
| armamentPrimary | 12 × 14-inch guns ⓘ |
| armamentSecondary |
5-inch guns
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anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| awarded | battle stars for World War II service ⓘ |
| beam | approximately 97 feet ⓘ |
| builder | New York Navy Yard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Ships built at New York Navy Yard
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World War II battleships of the United States ⓘ |
| commissionedDate | 1918-05-20 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement | approximately 1,000–1,400 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| decommissionedDate | 1946-07-19 ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | approximately 32,000 long tons ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| flagshipFor | various U.S. Navy fleet commands ⓘ |
| homePort | various U.S. Navy bases in the Pacific ⓘ |
| hullNumber | BB-40 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laidDownDate | 1915-10-14 ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1917-04-13 ⓘ |
| leadShipOfClass | New Mexico-class battleship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | approximately 624 feet ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | approximately 21 knots ⓘ |
| modernizationIncluded |
enhanced anti-aircraft armament
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improved armor protection ⓘ revised superstructure ⓘ |
| modernized | interwar period ⓘ |
| namedAfter | U.S. state of New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature | first U.S. battleship with turbo-electric drive as built ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Okinawa campaign
NERFINISHED
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Philippines campaign (World War II) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Pennsylvania-class battleship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion |
oil-fired boilers
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| refersTo | USS New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
escort and screening duties
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naval gunfire support ⓘ |
| servicePeriod |
World War I era
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World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ interwar period ⓘ |
| shipClass | New Mexico-class battleship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| soldForScrapDate | 1947-11-09 ⓘ |
| strickenDate | 1947-02-25 ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Tennessee-class battleship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations | Pacific Theater of World War II 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: BB-40 Description of subject: BB-40 is the hull classification symbol for USS New Mexico, a U.S. Navy battleship that served primarily during the early to mid-20th century, including World War II.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.