USS Silversides (SS-236)
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USS Silversides (SS-236) is a World War II-era Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy renowned for its successful combat patrols in the Pacific and now preserved as a museum ship.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Silversides (SS-236) canonical | 6 |
| USS Silversides | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2365697 — 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 Silversides (SS-236) Context triple: [USS Silversides Submarine Museum, mainSubject, USS Silversides (SS-236)]
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USS Bowfin (SS-287)
USS Bowfin (SS-287) is a World War II-era American Balao-class submarine famed for its successful wartime patrols in the Pacific and preservation as a museum ship in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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B.
SSN-571
SSN-571 is the hull number of USS Nautilus, the world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine and a pioneering vessel in naval history.
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C.
USS Cassin Young
USS Cassin Young is a preserved World War II-era Fletcher-class destroyer now serving as a museum ship in Boston, Massachusetts.
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USS Laffey
USS Laffey was a U.S. Navy destroyer famed for its fierce World War II service, including surviving intense kamikaze attacks and earning the nickname "The Ship That Would Not Die."
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E.
USS Pampanito
USS Pampanito is a World War II-era Balao-class submarine preserved as a museum ship and memorial 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 Silversides (SS-236) Target entity description: USS Silversides (SS-236) is a World War II-era Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy renowned for its successful combat patrols in the Pacific and now preserved as a museum ship.
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A.
USS Bowfin (SS-287)
USS Bowfin (SS-287) is a World War II-era American Balao-class submarine famed for its successful wartime patrols in the Pacific and preservation as a museum ship in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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B.
SSN-571
SSN-571 is the hull number of USS Nautilus, the world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine and a pioneering vessel in naval history.
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C.
USS Cassin Young
USS Cassin Young is a preserved World War II-era Fletcher-class destroyer now serving as a museum ship in Boston, Massachusetts.
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D.
USS Laffey
USS Laffey was a U.S. Navy destroyer famed for its fierce World War II service, including surviving intense kamikaze attacks and earning the nickname "The Ship That Would Not Die."
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E.
USS Pampanito
USS Pampanito is a World War II-era Balao-class submarine preserved as a museum ship and memorial in San Francisco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Silversides (SS-236) Description of subject: USS Silversides (SS-236) is a World War II-era Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy renowned for its successful combat patrols in the Pacific and now preserved as a museum ship.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.