USS Ranger (CV-4)
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USS Ranger (CV-4) was the United States Navy’s first purpose-built aircraft carrier, commissioned in the 1930s and serving primarily in the Atlantic during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Ranger (CV-4) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T571283 — 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 Ranger (CV-4) Context triple: [USS Yorktown (CV-5), precededBy, USS Ranger (CV-4)]
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A.
USS Lexington (CV-2)
USS Lexington (CV-2) was a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier of the early World War II era that played a major role in Pacific operations before being lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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B.
USS Ranger
USS Ranger was a prominent sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, best known for its daring Atlantic operations under Captain John Paul Jones.
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C.
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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D.
USS Lexington
USS Lexington was a prominent warship of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, known for its early naval engagements against British forces.
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E.
USS Saratoga
USS Saratoga was a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, originally commissioned in the 1920s, that later became notable as a target ship in early post–World War II nuclear weapons tests.
- 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 Ranger (CV-4) Target entity description: USS Ranger (CV-4) was the United States Navy’s first purpose-built aircraft carrier, commissioned in the 1930s and serving primarily in the Atlantic during World War II.
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A.
USS Lexington (CV-2)
USS Lexington (CV-2) was a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier of the early World War II era that played a major role in Pacific operations before being lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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B.
USS Ranger
USS Ranger was a prominent sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, best known for its daring Atlantic operations under Captain John Paul Jones.
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C.
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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D.
USS Lexington
USS Lexington was a prominent warship of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, known for its early naval engagements against British forces.
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E.
USS Saratoga
USS Saratoga was a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, originally commissioned in the 1920s, that later became notable as a target ship in early post–World War II nuclear weapons tests.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy ship
ⓘ
Yorktown-class-related design ⓘ aircraft carrier ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| airGroupSize | approximately 76 aircraft (designed) ⓘ |
| armament |
5-inch guns
ⓘ
anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| awarded | battle stars for World War II service ⓘ |
| beam | 80 ft ⓘ |
| builder | Newport News Shipbuilding ⓘ |
| category |
Ships built in Newport News, Virginia
ⓘ
World War II aircraft carriers of the United States ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1934-06-04 ⓘ |
| constructionSite | Newport News, Virginia ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement | about 2,000 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| decommissionedOn | 1946-10-18 ⓘ |
| designFeature |
full-length flight deck
ⓘ
hangar deck below flight deck ⓘ island superstructure on starboard side ⓘ |
| displacement | approximately 14,500 tons standard ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| followedBy | USS Yorktown (CV-5) ⓘ |
| hullNumber | CV-4 ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1931-09-26 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1933-02-25 ⓘ |
| length | 769 ft ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 29 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Ranger (American privateer tradition) ⓘ |
| notableAircraftOperated |
Douglas SBD Dauntless
ⓘ
Grumman F4F Wildcat ⓘ Grumman TBF Avenger ⓘ |
| notableAs | first purpose-built aircraft carrier of the United States Navy ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Operation Torch
ⓘ
surface form:
North African landings
Operation Torch ⓘ aircraft ferry missions to Africa ⓘ convoy escort operations in the Atlantic ⓘ training operations in the Pacific late in World War II ⓘ |
| precededBy |
USS Langley (CVL-27)
ⓘ
surface form:
USS Langley (CV-1)
|
| primaryTheater | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| propulsion |
geared turbines
ⓘ
steam turbines ⓘ |
| roleInOperationTorch | provided air support for Allied landings in French North Africa ⓘ |
| secondaryTheater | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| serviceEntryEra | interwar period ⓘ |
| serviceEra | World War II ⓘ |
| soldForScrapOn | 1947-01-28 ⓘ |
| sponsor | Lou Henry Hoover ⓘ |
| strickenOn | 1946-10-29 ⓘ |
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 Ranger (CV-4) Description of subject: USS Ranger (CV-4) was the United States Navy’s first purpose-built aircraft carrier, commissioned in the 1930s and serving primarily in the Atlantic during World War II.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
USS Lexington (CV-2)