USS Nevada (BB-36)
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USS Nevada (BB-36) was a United States Navy battleship notable for its World War I and World War II service, including being the only battleship to get underway during the attack on Pearl Harbor and later supporting major Allied amphibious operations in Europe and the Pacific.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USS Nevada (BB-36) canonical | 7 |
| USS Nevada | 3 |
| Nevada class | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7010 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: USS Nevada (BB-36) Context triple: [attack on Pearl Harbor, battleshipsDamaged, USS Nevada (BB-36)]
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USS California (BB-44)
USS California (BB-44) was a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served as the flagship of the Pacific Fleet and saw extensive action in World War II, including being sunk and later salvaged and modernized after the Pearl Harbor attack.
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USS West Virginia (BB-48)
USS West Virginia (BB-48) was a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that was sunk and later refloated and modernized after the Pearl Harbor attack, subsequently serving in major Pacific Theater operations during World War II.
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USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship of the United States Navy that capsized and was lost during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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USS Arizona (BB-39)
USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class U.S. Navy battleship whose catastrophic destruction and loss of life during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor made it one of the most iconic symbols of the United States’ entry into World War II.
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E.
USS Utah (AG-16)
USS Utah (AG-16) was a former U.S. battleship converted to a target and training ship that was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
- 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 Nevada (BB-36) Target entity description: USS Nevada (BB-36) was a United States Navy battleship notable for its World War I and World War II service, including being the only battleship to get underway during the attack on Pearl Harbor and later supporting major Allied amphibious operations in Europe and the Pacific.
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A.
USS California (BB-44)
USS California (BB-44) was a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served as the flagship of the Pacific Fleet and saw extensive action in World War II, including being sunk and later salvaged and modernized after the Pearl Harbor attack.
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B.
USS West Virginia (BB-48)
USS West Virginia (BB-48) was a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that was sunk and later refloated and modernized after the Pearl Harbor attack, subsequently serving in major Pacific Theater operations during World War II.
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C.
USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship of the United States Navy that capsized and was lost during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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D.
USS Arizona (BB-39)
USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class U.S. Navy battleship whose catastrophic destruction and loss of life during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor made it one of the most iconic symbols of the United States’ entry into World War II.
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E.
USS Utah (AG-16)
USS Utah (AG-16) was a former U.S. battleship converted to a target and training ship that was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nevada-class battleship
ⓘ
United States Navy ship ⓘ battleship ⓘ |
| armamentMain | 10 × 14-inch/45 caliber guns ⓘ |
| armamentSecondary | 5-inch guns ⓘ |
| armorBelt | 13.5 inches ⓘ |
| armorDeck | up to 3.5 inches ⓘ |
| awarded |
American Defense Service Medal
ⓘ
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal ⓘ European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal ⓘ World War II Victory Medal ⓘ |
| battleHonors | World War II battle stars ⓘ |
| beachedAt | Hospital Point, Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
| beam | 95 feet 2 inches ⓘ |
| builder |
Fore River Shipbuilding Company
ⓘ
Massachusetts ⓘ |
| class | lead ship of Nevada class ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1916-03-11 ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement |
approximately 860 (peacetime)
ⓘ
over 1,400 (wartime) ⓘ |
| damagedIn | attack on Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
| dateAtEvent_attack on Pearl Harbor | 1941-12-07 ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1946-08-29 ⓘ |
| designInnovation |
first U.S. battleship designed to burn oil instead of coal
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first U.S. battleship with all-or-nothing armor scheme ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | 29500 long tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | 27500 long tons ⓘ |
| draft | 28 feet 6 inches ⓘ |
| event | attack on Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
| fate | sunk as target ⓘ |
| finalSinkingMethod | gunfire and aerial torpedoes by U.S. forces ⓘ |
| homePort | Pearl Harbor (interwar and early WWII) ⓘ |
| hullNumber | BB-36 ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1912-11-04 ⓘ |
| launched | 1914-07-11 ⓘ |
| length | 583 feet ⓘ |
| locationDuring_attack on Pearl Harbor |
Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor
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surface form:
Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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| locationDuring_Operation Crossroads | Bikini Atoll ⓘ |
| modernized | 1927–1930 ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Nevada
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surface form:
U.S. state of Nevada
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| notableFact | only U.S. battleship to get underway during the attack on Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| paintScheme_Operation Crossroads | bright orange ⓘ |
| precededByClass | New York-class battleship ⓘ |
| propulsion |
oil-fired boilers
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steam turbines ⓘ triple-expansion engines (original mixed machinery) ⓘ |
| repairedAt | Puget Sound Navy Yard ⓘ |
| role |
convoy escort in World War I
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fleet flagship at various times ⓘ |
| speed | 20.5 knots ⓘ |
| sponsor | Eleanor Anne Seibert ⓘ |
| succeededByClass | Pennsylvania-class battleship ⓘ |
| sunkDate | 1948-07-31 ⓘ |
| survived | atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll ⓘ |
| tookPartIn |
Operation Dragoon
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surface form:
Invasion of Southern France
Battle of Iwo Jima ⓘ
surface form:
Iwo Jima campaign
D-Day ⓘ
surface form:
Normandy landings
Battle of Okinawa ⓘ
surface form:
Okinawa campaign
Operation Crossroads ⓘ Operation Dragoon ⓘ Operation Neptune ⓘ |
| usedAs | target ship for atomic tests ⓘ |
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 Nevada (BB-36) Description of subject: USS Nevada (BB-36) was a United States Navy battleship notable for its World War I and World War II service, including being the only battleship to get underway during the attack on Pearl Harbor and later supporting major Allied amphibious operations in Europe and the Pacific.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nevada class
this entity surface form:
Nevada class
this entity surface form:
USS Nevada
this entity surface form:
USS Nevada