USS Wasp
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USS Wasp was a United States Navy aircraft carrier that served prominently during the mid-20th century, supporting both combat operations and space mission recoveries.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Wasp canonical | 2 |
| USS Wasp (CVS-18) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8739544 — 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 Context triple: [Gemini 9A, recoveryShip, USS Wasp]
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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 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 Hornet
USS Hornet was a notable early 19th-century United States Navy sloop-of-war that gained fame for its victories during the War of 1812.
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D.
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.
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E.
USS Wasp (CV-7)
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.
- 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 Target entity description: USS Wasp was a United States Navy aircraft carrier that served prominently during the mid-20th century, supporting both combat operations and space mission recoveries.
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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 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 Hornet
USS Hornet was a notable early 19th-century United States Navy sloop-of-war that gained fame for its victories during the War of 1812.
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D.
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.
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E.
USS Wasp (CV-7)
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
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 Description of subject: USS Wasp was a United States Navy aircraft carrier that served prominently during the mid-20th century, supporting both combat operations and space mission recoveries.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: USS Wasp