ZRS-5
E789613
ZRS-5 was the hull designation of USS Macon, a U.S. Navy rigid airship and flying aircraft carrier operated in the early 1930s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ZRS-5 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9299201 — 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: ZRS-5 Context triple: [USS Macon (ZRS-5), hullNumber, ZRS-5]
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A.
ZS
ZS is the vehicle registration code assigned to cars registered in the Polish city of Szczecin.
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B.
ZS
ZS is the stock ticker symbol for Zscaler, a cloud-based information security company traded on the NASDAQ.
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C.
RZ
RZ is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the district of Lauenburg in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
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D.
ZSU
ZSU is the commonly used Ukrainian abbreviation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the country's unified military organization.
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E.
WZL-5
WZL-5 is a major Polish aerospace and defense maintenance and repair facility specializing in the overhaul and modernization of military aircraft and helicopters.
- 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: ZRS-5 Target entity description: ZRS-5 was the hull designation of USS Macon, a U.S. Navy rigid airship and flying aircraft carrier operated in the early 1930s.
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A.
ZS
ZS is the stock ticker symbol for Zscaler, a cloud-based information security company traded on the NASDAQ.
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B.
ZS
ZS is the vehicle registration code assigned to cars registered in the Polish city of Szczecin.
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C.
RZ
RZ is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the district of Lauenburg in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
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D.
ZSU
ZSU is the commonly used Ukrainian abbreviation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the country's unified military organization.
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E.
WZL-5
WZL-5 is a major Polish aerospace and defense maintenance and repair facility specializing in the overhaul and modernization of military aircraft and helicopters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Navy airship
ⓘ
flying aircraft carrier ⓘ military aircraft ⓘ rigid airship ⓘ |
| aircraftCarried | Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory | lighter-than-air ⓘ |
| airshipType | rigid airship ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOperator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| hasCapability |
launch fixed-wing aircraft in flight
ⓘ
recover fixed-wing aircraft in flight ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| hullDesignation | ZRS-5 ⓘ |
| launchMethod | trapeze system ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
U.S. Navy
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Navy
|
| name |
USS Macon
ⓘ
linked to:
USS Macon (ZRS-5)
|
| navalPrefix | USS ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
U.S. Navy
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Navy
|
| operationalStatus | decommissioned ⓘ |
| operationalUse | experiments in airborne scouting doctrine ⓘ |
| propulsionType | airship engines ⓘ |
| recoveryMethod | trapeze system ⓘ |
| role |
airborne aircraft carrier
ⓘ
scouting ⓘ |
| serviceEntryEra | early 1930s ⓘ |
| shipName |
USS Macon
ⓘ
linked to:
USS Macon (ZRS-5)
|
| structuralForm | zeppelin-type rigid airship ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fleet reconnaissance
ⓘ
long-range scouting ⓘ |
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: ZRS-5 Description of subject: ZRS-5 was the hull designation of USS Macon, a U.S. Navy rigid airship and flying aircraft carrier operated in the early 1930s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.