USS Milwaukee
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USS Milwaukee canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156358 — 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 Milwaukee Context triple: [Milwaukee Deep, discoveredBy, USS Milwaukee]
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A.
USS Providence
USS Providence was a prominent warship of the Continental Navy that served during the American Revolutionary War, participating in several key naval operations against British forces.
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B.
USS Hancock
USS Hancock was a prominent frigate of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, known for its early naval engagements against the British.
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C.
USS Alfred
USS Alfred was a prominent warship of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, known for serving as one of its earliest flagships.
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D.
USS Maryland (BB-46)
USS Maryland (BB-46) was a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently in the Pacific Theater during World War II, including surviving and continuing operations after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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E.
SS Jeremiah O’Brien
SS Jeremiah O’Brien is a preserved World War II Liberty ship now serving as a museum vessel and historic attraction in San Francisco.
- 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 Milwaukee Target entity description: 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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A.
USS Providence
USS Providence was a prominent warship of the Continental Navy that served during the American Revolutionary War, participating in several key naval operations against British forces.
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B.
USS Hancock
USS Hancock was a prominent frigate of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, known for its early naval engagements against the British.
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C.
USS Alfred
USS Alfred was a prominent warship of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, known for serving as one of its earliest flagships.
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D.
USS Maryland (BB-46)
USS Maryland (BB-46) was a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently in the Pacific Theater during World War II, including surviving and continuing operations after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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E.
SS Jeremiah O’Brien
SS Jeremiah O’Brien is a preserved World War II Liberty ship now serving as a museum vessel and historic attraction in San Francisco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy warship
ⓘ
oceanic trench ⓘ survey ship ⓘ |
| conducted | deep-sea soundings in the region of the Milwaukee Deep ⓘ |
| contributedTo | discovery of the Milwaukee Deep ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
international waters ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
hydrography
ⓘ
oceanography ⓘ |
| hasRole |
deep-sea sounding ship
ⓘ
oceanographic survey vessel ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being one of the deepest points in the Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
contributing to the discovery of the Milwaukee Deep ⓘ deep-sea sounding work in the Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedOffCoastOf | Puerto Rico ⓘ |
| locationOfOperations | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| maximumDepth | over 8,000 meters ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| namedAfter | USS Milwaukee ⓘ |
| namesakeOf | Milwaukee Deep ⓘ |
| ocean | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| operatedBy | United States Navy ⓘ |
| operatedIn | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| partOf | Puerto Rico Trench ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| significance | helped determine extreme depths in the Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| surveyed | Milwaukee Deep ⓘ |
| typeOfWork |
bathymetric measurement
ⓘ
hydrographic survey ⓘ |
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 Milwaukee Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.