USS Minnesota
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USS Minnesota was a United States Navy steam frigate that served prominently during the American Civil War, including in the Battle of Hampton Roads.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Minnesota canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16977259 — 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: USS Minnesota Context triple: [CSS Virginia, damagedShip, USS Minnesota]
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USS Milwaukee
USS Milwaukee was a United States Navy warship whose deep-sea sounding work contributed to the discovery of the Milwaukee Deep, one of the deepest points in the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
USS Mississippi
USS Mississippi was a pioneering 19th-century sidewheel steam frigate of the United States Navy that played a key role in early steam-powered naval operations and in Commodore Perry’s opening of Japan to Western trade.
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C.
USS Michigan
USS Michigan was a 19th-century United States Navy warship that served on the Great Lakes, notable as one of the Navy’s earliest iron-hulled steam-powered vessels.
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USS Chicago
USS Chicago was a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser that served in the Pacific during World War II, seeing significant action before being sunk in early 1943.
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USS Hartford
USS Hartford was a prominent Union Navy screw sloop-of-war that served as Admiral David Farragut’s flagship in several major Civil War naval engagements, including the Battle of Mobile Bay.
- 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 Minnesota Target entity description: USS Minnesota was a United States Navy steam frigate that served prominently during the American Civil War, including in the Battle of Hampton Roads.
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A.
USS Milwaukee
USS Milwaukee was a United States Navy warship whose deep-sea sounding work contributed to the discovery of the Milwaukee Deep, one of the deepest points in the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
USS Mississippi
USS Mississippi was a pioneering 19th-century sidewheel steam frigate of the United States Navy that played a key role in early steam-powered naval operations and in Commodore Perry’s opening of Japan to Western trade.
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C.
USS Michigan
USS Michigan was a 19th-century United States Navy warship that served on the Great Lakes, notable as one of the Navy’s earliest iron-hulled steam-powered vessels.
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D.
USS Chicago
USS Chicago was a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser that served in the Pacific during World War II, seeing significant action before being sunk in early 1943.
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E.
USS Hartford
USS Hartford was a prominent Union Navy screw sloop-of-war that served as Admiral David Farragut’s flagship in several major Civil War naval engagements, including the Battle of Mobile Bay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.