CV-39
E1041789
CV-39 is the hull number of USS Lake Champlain, an Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during and after World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CV-39 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13444646 — 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: CV-39 Context triple: [USS Lake Champlain, hullNumber, CV-39]
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A.
CV-3
CV-3 was the hull classification symbol for USS Saratoga, a pioneering U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that served prominently from the interwar period through World War II.
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B.
CV-9
CV-9 is the hull number of USS Essex, a World War II-era Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that played a major role in Pacific Theater operations.
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C.
CV-4
CV-4 is the hull number of USS Ranger, the first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier designed and built from the keel up as a carrier.
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D.
CV-990
CV-990 is a narrow-body jet airliner developed by Convair in the early 1960s, known for being one of the fastest commercial passenger aircraft ever built.
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E.
CV-8
CV-8 is the hull number of USS Hornet, a famed World War II U.S. Navy aircraft carrier best known for launching the Doolittle Raid and participating in the Battle of Midway.
- 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: CV-39 Target entity description: CV-39 is the hull number of USS Lake Champlain, an Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during and after World War II.
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A.
CV-3
CV-3 was the hull classification symbol for USS Saratoga, a pioneering U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that served prominently from the interwar period through World War II.
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B.
CV-9
CV-9 is the hull number of USS Essex, a World War II-era Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that played a major role in Pacific Theater operations.
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C.
CV-4
CV-4 is the hull number of USS Ranger, the first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier designed and built from the keel up as a carrier.
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D.
CV-990
CV-990 is a narrow-body jet airliner developed by Convair in the early 1960s, known for being one of the fastest commercial passenger aircraft ever built.
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E.
CV-8
CV-8 is the hull number of USS Hornet, a famed World War II U.S. Navy aircraft carrier best known for launching the Doolittle Raid and participating in the Battle of Midway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Essex-class aircraft carrier
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United States Navy ship ⓘ aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| airGroupSize | approximately 90–100 aircraft (WWII era) ⓘ |
| armament |
20 mm anti-aircraft guns
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40 mm anti-aircraft guns ⓘ 5-inch/38 caliber guns ⓘ |
| awarded | battle stars for Korean War service ⓘ |
| beam | about 93 feet ⓘ |
| builder | Norfolk Navy Yard ⓘ |
| category |
Cold War aircraft carriers of the United States
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Korean War aircraft carriers of the United States ⓘ World War II aircraft carriers of the United States ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 3 June 1945 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement | around 2,600 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| decommissionedOn | 2 May 1947 ⓘ |
| displacement |
approximately 27,100 long tons (standard)
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approximately 36,380 long tons (full load) ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| finalDecommissionedOn | 2 May 1966 ⓘ |
| flightDeckBeam | about 147 feet ⓘ |
| hullNumber | CV-39 ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 15 March 1943 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 2 November 1944 ⓘ |
| length | about 872 feet ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 33 knots ⓘ |
| modernization | SCB-27A conversion ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Lake Champlain ⓘ |
| navalRegistry | United States Navy hull classification symbol CV-39 ⓘ |
| notableOperation |
Korean War carrier operations
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Operation Magic Carpet (post–World War II troop transport) ⓘ
linked to:
Operation Magic Carpet
recovery ship for Project Mercury mission MR-3 (Freedom 7) ⓘ recovery ship for astronaut Alan Shepard ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| placeBuilt | Portsmouth, Virginia ⓘ |
| propulsion |
4 shafts
ⓘ
steam turbines ⓘ |
| reclassifiedAs |
CVA-39
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CVS-39 ⓘ |
| recommissionedOn | 19 September 1951 ⓘ |
| role |
anti-submarine warfare support carrier
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attack aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| scrappedOn | 1972 ⓘ |
| servedInConflict |
Cold War
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Korean War ⓘ World War II ⓘ |
| shipClass | Essex class ⓘ |
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: CV-39 Description of subject: CV-39 is the hull number of USS Lake Champlain, an Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during and after World War II.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
CV-39