DD-9
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DD-9 is the hull classification symbol for USS Macdonough, an early United States Navy destroyer that served in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DD-9 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8062493 — 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: DD-9 Context triple: [USS Macdonough (DD-9), hullNumber, DD-9]
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A.
DD-951
DD-951 is the hull number of USS Turner Joy, a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer notable for its service in the Vietnam War and involvement in the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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B.
D910
D910 is a departmental road in France that serves as a key route connecting and passing through the commune of Ville-d'Avray in the Île-de-France region.
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C.
DD-731
DD-731 is the hull number of USS Maddox, a U.S. Navy destroyer best known for its involvement in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident during the Vietnam War.
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D.
DDF
DDF is the commonly used abbreviation for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican department responsible for promoting and safeguarding Catholic doctrine.
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E.
D209
D209 is the commonly used abbreviation for Proviso Township High Schools District 209, a public high school district serving communities in the Proviso Township area of Illinois.
- 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: DD-9 Target entity description: DD-9 is the hull classification symbol for USS Macdonough, an early United States Navy destroyer that served in the early 20th century.
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A.
DD-951
DD-951 is the hull number of USS Turner Joy, a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer notable for its service in the Vietnam War and involvement in the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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B.
D910
D910 is a departmental road in France that serves as a key route connecting and passing through the commune of Ville-d'Avray in the Île-de-France region.
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C.
DD-731
DD-731 is the hull number of USS Maddox, a U.S. Navy destroyer best known for its involvement in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident during the Vietnam War.
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D.
DDF
DDF is the commonly used abbreviation for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican department responsible for promoting and safeguarding Catholic doctrine.
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E.
D209
D209 is the commonly used abbreviation for Proviso Township High Schools District 209, a public high school district serving communities in the Proviso Township area of Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy ship designation
ⓘ
hull classification symbol ⓘ |
| appliesTo | USS Macdonough (DD-9) ⓘ |
| associatedLocation |
Caribbean Sea
ⓘ
European waters ⓘ United States East Coast ⓘ
linked to:
East Coast of the United States
|
| associatedWithClass | Lawrence-class destroyer ⓘ |
| associatedWithConflict | World War I ⓘ |
| classification | destroyer, hull number 9 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| designationSystem | U.S. Navy hull classification system ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| followsInSequence | DD-10 ⓘ |
| hasPennantNumber | 9 ⓘ |
| hullNumber | 9 ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Commodore Thomas Macdonough
ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas Macdonough
|
| namedShip | USS Macdonough ⓘ |
| navalBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
United States Navy Atlantic Fleet
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlantic Fleet
|
| precedesInSequence | DD-8 ⓘ |
| prefix | DD ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | USN destroyer force ⓘ |
| shipCategory | pre–World War I destroyer ⓘ |
| shipRole | torpedo-boat destroyer ⓘ |
| shipType | destroyer ⓘ |
| status | decommissioned ⓘ |
| timeInService | early 1900s ⓘ |
| usedFor |
escort duties
ⓘ
patrol duties ⓘ training duties ⓘ |
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: DD-9 Description of subject: DD-9 is the hull classification symbol for USS Macdonough, an early United States Navy destroyer that served in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
USS Macdonough