VC2
E806598
VC2 is the U.S. Maritime Commission’s standard hull designation for the World War II–era Victory-class cargo ships.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9562847 — 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: VC2 Context triple: [Victory ship, hasStandardDesignation, VC2]
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A.
V2
V2 is a class of British 2-6-2 steam locomotives designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for mixed-traffic duties on the London and North Eastern Railway.
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B.
.vc
.vc is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, often also used creatively for various commercial and personal websites.
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C.
VCK
VCK is a Tamil Nadu–based political party in India known for its advocacy of Dalit rights and social justice.
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D.
VC-1
VC-1 is a video compression standard developed by Microsoft and standardized by SMPTE, widely used for high-definition content such as on Blu-ray Discs and HD DVD.
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E.
VVCI
VVCI is the ICAO airport code for Cat Bi International Airport in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
- 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: VC2 Target entity description: VC2 is the U.S. Maritime Commission’s standard hull designation for the World War II–era Victory-class cargo ships.
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A.
V2
V2 is a class of British 2-6-2 steam locomotives designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for mixed-traffic duties on the London and North Eastern Railway.
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B.
.vc
.vc is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, often also used creatively for various commercial and personal websites.
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C.
VCK
VCK is a Tamil Nadu–based political party in India known for its advocacy of Dalit rights and social justice.
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D.
VC-1
VC-1 is a video compression standard developed by Microsoft and standardized by SMPTE, widely used for high-definition content such as on Blu-ray Discs and HD DVD.
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E.
VVCI
VVCI is the ICAO airport code for Cat Bi International Airport in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ship hull classification
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standard hull designation ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Victory ship
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Victory-class cargo ship ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| era |
World War II era
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linked to:
World War II
|
| hasSubclass |
VC2-M-AP4
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VC2-M-AP5 ⓘ VC2-M-AP7 ⓘ VC2-S-AP1 ⓘ VC2-S-AP10 ⓘ VC2-S-AP11 ⓘ VC2-S-AP12 ⓘ VC2-S-AP13 ⓘ VC2-S-AP14 ⓘ VC2-S-AP15 ⓘ VC2-S-AP16 ⓘ VC2-S-AP17 ⓘ VC2-S-AP18 ⓘ VC2-S-AP19 ⓘ VC2-S-AP2 ⓘ VC2-S-AP20 ⓘ VC2-S-AP21 ⓘ VC2-S-AP22 ⓘ VC2-S-AP23 ⓘ VC2-S-AP24 ⓘ VC2-S-AP25 ⓘ VC2-S-AP26 ⓘ VC2-S-AP27 ⓘ VC2-S-AP28 ⓘ VC2-S-AP29 ⓘ VC2-S-AP3 ⓘ VC2-S-AP30 ⓘ VC2-S-AP31 ⓘ VC2-S-AP32 ⓘ VC2-S-AP33 ⓘ VC2-S-AP34 ⓘ VC2-S-AP35 ⓘ VC2-S-AP36 ⓘ VC2-S-AP37 ⓘ VC2-S-AP38 ⓘ VC2-S-AP39 ⓘ VC2-S-AP40 ⓘ VC2-S-AP5 ⓘ VC2-S-AP7 ⓘ VC2-S-AP8 ⓘ VC2-S-AP9 ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. Maritime Commission standard shipbuilding program ⓘ |
| purpose | standardization of cargo ship hulls ⓘ |
| replaced |
EC2
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linked to:
Amazon EC2
Liberty ship standard hull designation ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Maritime Commission ⓘ |
| usedDuring | World War II ⓘ |
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: VC2 Description of subject: VC2 is the U.S. Maritime Commission’s standard hull designation for the World War II–era Victory-class cargo ships.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Victory ships