USS Tennessee (BB-43)
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USS Tennessee (BB-43) was a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently in the Pacific Theater during World War II, providing shore bombardment and support in multiple major campaigns.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USS Tennessee (BB-43) canonical | 5 |
| USS Tennessee | 2 |
| Tennessee class | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7011 — 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 Tennessee (BB-43) Context triple: [attack on Pearl Harbor, battleshipsDamaged, USS Tennessee (BB-43)]
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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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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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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 Nevada (BB-36)
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: USS Tennessee (BB-43) Target entity description: USS Tennessee (BB-43) was a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently in the Pacific Theater during World War II, providing shore bombardment and support in multiple major campaigns.
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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 Nevada (BB-36)
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tennessee-class battleship
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United States Navy warship ⓘ battleship ⓘ |
| armament |
12 × 14-inch/50 caliber guns
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5-inch secondary guns ⓘ anti-aircraft guns ⓘ torpedo blisters (protection) ⓘ |
| armor |
armored decks
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belt armor up to 13.5 inches ⓘ |
| battleHonors | multiple battle stars for World War II service ⓘ |
| builder |
Brooklyn Navy Yard
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surface form:
New York Naval Shipyard
|
| category |
Ships built in Brooklyn, New York
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World War II battleships of the United States ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1920-06-03 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewComplement |
approximately 1,000 officers and enlisted (prewar)
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over 2,000 officers and enlisted (wartime) ⓘ |
| damagedIn | attack on Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1947-02-14 ⓘ |
| displacement |
approximately 32,300 long tons standard
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approximately 36,000 long tons full load ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| hullNumber | BB-43 ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1917-05-14 ⓘ |
| launched | 1919-04-30 ⓘ |
| length | 624 feet ⓘ |
| locationDuringEvent |
Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor
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surface form:
Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor, 1941-12-07
|
| maximumSpeed | approximately 21 knots ⓘ |
| modernization |
enhanced anti-aircraft armament
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improved fire-control systems ⓘ reconstruction of superstructure ⓘ |
| namesake |
Tennessee
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surface form:
U.S. state of Tennessee
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| notableEvent | present during the attack on Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Aleutian Islands campaign
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Battle of Leyte Gulf ⓘ Battle of Surigao Strait ⓘ Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign ⓘ
surface form:
Gilbert Islands campaign
Battle of Iwo Jima ⓘ
surface form:
Iwo Jima campaign
Mariana and Palau Islands campaign ⓘ Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign ⓘ
surface form:
Marshall Islands campaign
Battle of Okinawa ⓘ
surface form:
Okinawa campaign
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| propulsion |
electric drive
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| role |
naval gunfire support
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shore bombardment ⓘ |
| shipClass |
USS Tennessee (BB-43)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Tennessee class
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| sisterShip | USS California (BB-44) ⓘ |
| stricken | 1959-03-01 ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Pacific War
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surface form:
Pacific Theater of World War II
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| underwent | modernization after Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
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 Tennessee (BB-43) Description of subject: USS Tennessee (BB-43) was a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently in the Pacific Theater during World War II, providing shore bombardment and support in multiple major campaigns.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tennessee class
this entity surface form:
USS Tennessee