USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)
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USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after the 41st U.S. president and former naval aviator George H. W. Bush.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USS George H.W. Bush | 2 |
| CVN-77 | 1 |
| USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2251754 — 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 George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) Context triple: [Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, lastShip, USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)]
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A.
USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the lead ship of the Nimitz-class, among the largest warships in the world.
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B.
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) was a U.S. Navy Kitty Hawk–class supercarrier that served as a key conventionally powered aircraft carrier from the early 1960s until its decommissioning in 2009.
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C.
USS Forrestal (CV-59)
USS Forrestal (CV-59) was the United States Navy’s first supercarrier, commissioned in 1955 and named in honor of the first U.S. Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal.
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D.
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is a class of U.S. Navy nuclear-powered supercarriers that has formed the backbone of American naval air power since the late 20th century.
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E.
USS Wasp (CV-18)
USS Wasp (CV-18) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that saw significant action in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
- 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 George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) Target entity description: USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after the 41st U.S. president and former naval aviator George H. W. Bush.
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A.
USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the lead ship of the Nimitz-class, among the largest warships in the world.
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B.
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) was a U.S. Navy Kitty Hawk–class supercarrier that served as a key conventionally powered aircraft carrier from the early 1960s until its decommissioning in 2009.
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C.
USS Forrestal (CV-59)
USS Forrestal (CV-59) was the United States Navy’s first supercarrier, commissioned in 1955 and named in honor of the first U.S. Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal.
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D.
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is a class of U.S. Navy nuclear-powered supercarriers that has formed the backbone of American naval air power since the late 20th century.
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E.
USS Wasp (CV-18)
USS Wasp (CV-18) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that saw significant action in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
ⓘ
United States Navy ship ⓘ nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ⓘ supercarrier ⓘ |
| aircraftTypesSupported |
fixed-wing aircraft
ⓘ
helicopters ⓘ |
| airWingCapacity | around 60 aircraft ⓘ |
| armament |
Phalanx CIWS
ⓘ
linked to:
Phalanx CIWS (modernization era)
RIM-116 RAM ⓘ RIM-162 ESSM ⓘ |
| beam | about 41 meters ⓘ |
| builder |
Northrop Grumman Newport News
ⓘ
linked to:
Newport News Shipbuilding
|
| callsign | Warrior ⓘ |
| classPosition |
final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
ⓘ
tenth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| commissioned | 2009-01-10 ⓘ |
| constructionCost | approximately 6.2 billion US dollars ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement |
about 2500 air wing personnel
ⓘ
about 3200 ship’s company ⓘ |
| designFeature |
improved flight deck layout
ⓘ
reduced radar cross-section elements ⓘ updated island structure compared to earlier Nimitz-class ships ⓘ |
| displacement | approximately 100000 long tons ⓘ |
| fleet |
U.S. Atlantic Fleet
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlantic Fleet
|
| flightDeckWidth | about 78 meters ⓘ |
| homeport | Naval Station Norfolk ⓘ |
| homeportCity | Norfolk, Virginia ⓘ |
| honors | service of George H. W. Bush in World War II ⓘ |
| hullNumber |
CVN-77
ⓘ
linked to:
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)
|
| laidDown | 2003-09-06 ⓘ |
| launched | 2006-10-07 ⓘ |
| length | about 333 meters ⓘ |
| locationRegion | Atlantic Ocean operations ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | over 30 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | George H. W. Bush ⓘ |
| namedBy | United States Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England ⓘ |
| namedForRole |
41st President of the United States
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World War II naval aviator ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| powerPlant | two nuclear reactors ⓘ |
| propulsion | nuclear-powered ⓘ |
| role |
maritime security
ⓘ
power projection ⓘ sea control ⓘ |
| shipClass |
Nimitz class
ⓘ
linked to:
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
|
| shipType | aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| shipyard | Newport News Shipbuilding ⓘ |
| sponsor |
Doro Bush Koch
ⓘ
linked to:
Dorothy Bush Koch
|
| status | active service ⓘ |
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 George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) Description of subject: USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after the 41st U.S. president and former naval aviator George H. W. Bush.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)
linked to: USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)