Florida-class battleship
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The Florida-class battleship was an early 20th-century class of U.S. Navy dreadnoughts that marked a step forward in American capital ship design before World War I.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Florida-class battleship canonical | 5 |
| Florida class | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1097852 — 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: Florida-class battleship Context triple: [BB-31, designates, Florida-class battleship]
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A.
New York-class battleship
The New York-class battleship was a class of early 20th-century U.S. Navy dreadnoughts that introduced 14-inch guns and served prominently through both World Wars.
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B.
Iowa-class battleship
The Iowa-class battleship is a class of fast, heavily armed U.S. Navy battleships built during World War II, renowned for their large 16-inch guns, thick armor, and long service lives extending into the late 20th century.
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C.
Pennsylvania-class battleship
The Pennsylvania-class battleship was a pair of powerful U.S. Navy dreadnoughts built during World War I that later served prominently in World War II, including at Pearl Harbor and in major Pacific campaigns.
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D.
Nevada-class battleship
The Nevada-class battleship was a pair of early 20th-century U.S. Navy dreadnoughts that introduced major design innovations such as the "all-or-nothing" armor scheme and oil-fired propulsion.
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E.
Tosa-class battleship
The Tosa-class battleship was a planned class of Japanese capital ships in the early 1920s, cancelled under the Washington Naval Treaty and notable for influencing later Imperial Japanese Navy battleship designs.
- 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: Florida-class battleship Target entity description: The Florida-class battleship was an early 20th-century class of U.S. Navy dreadnoughts that marked a step forward in American capital ship design before World War I.
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A.
New York-class battleship
The New York-class battleship was a class of early 20th-century U.S. Navy dreadnoughts that introduced 14-inch guns and served prominently through both World Wars.
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B.
Iowa-class battleship
The Iowa-class battleship is a class of fast, heavily armed U.S. Navy battleships built during World War II, renowned for their large 16-inch guns, thick armor, and long service lives extending into the late 20th century.
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C.
Pennsylvania-class battleship
The Pennsylvania-class battleship was a pair of powerful U.S. Navy dreadnoughts built during World War I that later served prominently in World War II, including at Pearl Harbor and in major Pacific campaigns.
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D.
Nevada-class battleship
The Nevada-class battleship was a pair of early 20th-century U.S. Navy dreadnoughts that introduced major design innovations such as the "all-or-nothing" armor scheme and oil-fired propulsion.
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E.
Tosa-class battleship
The Tosa-class battleship was a planned class of Japanese capital ships in the early 1920s, cancelled under the Washington Naval Treaty and notable for influencing later Imperial Japanese Navy battleship designs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
battleship class
ⓘ
dreadnought battleship class ⓘ |
| armamentType | naval artillery ⓘ |
| category |
World War I-era battleships of the United States
ⓘ
dreadnought battleships of the United States Navy ⓘ |
| classification | BB-30-class in U.S. Navy hull system ⓘ |
| constructionLocationCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| defensiveSystem |
armor belt
ⓘ
armored turrets ⓘ |
| designedAs | capital ship ⓘ |
| designedBy | Bureau of Construction and Repair (U.S. Navy) ⓘ |
| designedFor | battle fleet operations ⓘ |
| designImprovementOver | Delaware-class battleship ⓘ |
| displacementClass | standard battleship displacement for its era ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| followedBy | Wyoming-class battleship ⓘ |
| hasPart |
USS Florida (BB-30)
ⓘ
USS Utah (BB-31) ⓘ |
| hasShipNumberRange | BB-30 to BB-31 ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| navalArchitecture | all-big-gun dreadnought design ⓘ |
| navyBranch |
U.S. Atlantic Fleet
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlantic Fleet
|
| notableFeature |
improved armor protection over predecessors
ⓘ
refined gun arrangement compared to earlier U.S. dreadnoughts ⓘ |
| numberOfUnitsBuilt | 2 ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| precededBy | Delaware-class battleship ⓘ |
| primaryArmamentCaliber | 12-inch (305 mm) guns ⓘ |
| propulsionSystem | coal-fired boilers (as built) ⓘ |
| propulsionType | steam turbine ⓘ |
| role | fleet flagship potential ⓘ |
| secondaryArmamentType | medium-caliber guns ⓘ |
| serviceEntryPeriod | pre–World War I ⓘ |
| shipType | sea-going battleship ⓘ |
| strategicPurpose | projection of U.S. naval power ⓘ |
| technologyLevel | pre–World War I dreadnought technology ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfConstruction | 1910s ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfDesign | 1900s ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fleet exercises
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gunnery training ⓘ showing the flag ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | World War I ⓘ |
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: Florida-class battleship Description of subject: The Florida-class battleship was an early 20th-century class of U.S. Navy dreadnoughts that marked a step forward in American capital ship design before World War I.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.