Bethesda Naval Hospital

E27436

United States Navy medical facility military hospital

Bethesda Naval Hospital, officially the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, was a major U.S. military medical facility known for treating presidents and other high-ranking officials.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
National Naval Medical Center	7
Bethesda Naval Hospital canonical	4
Bethesda Naval Medical Center	1
National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland	1
National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda	1
Naval Medical Center Bethesda	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T210170 — 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: Bethesda Naval Hospital
Context triple: [Assassination of John F. Kennedy, bodyTakenTo, Bethesda Naval Hospital]

A. Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard is a major U.S. Navy industrial facility in Hawaii that provides maintenance, repair, and modernization services for naval vessels and submarines.
B. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is a major U.S. Marine Corps installation in Southern California that serves as a primary amphibious and ground combat training center.
C. Harbor Unit
The Harbor Unit is the New York City Police Department’s specialized maritime division responsible for law enforcement, search and rescue, and security operations on the city’s waterways and harbor areas.
D. Kure Naval Arsenal
Kure Naval Arsenal was a major Imperial Japanese Navy shipbuilding and armaments facility known for constructing prominent warships and aircraft carriers before and during World War II.
E. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is a major U.S. Marine Corps installation in North Carolina known for its extensive amphibious warfare and combat training operations.
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: Bethesda Naval Hospital
Target entity description: Bethesda Naval Hospital, officially the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, was a major U.S. military medical facility known for treating presidents and other high-ranking officials.

A. Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard is a major U.S. Navy industrial facility in Hawaii that provides maintenance, repair, and modernization services for naval vessels and submarines.
B. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is a major U.S. Marine Corps installation in Southern California that serves as a primary amphibious and ground combat training center.
C. Harbor Unit
The Harbor Unit is the New York City Police Department’s specialized maritime division responsible for law enforcement, search and rescue, and security operations on the city’s waterways and harbor areas.
D. Kure Naval Arsenal
Kure Naval Arsenal was a major Imperial Japanese Navy shipbuilding and armaments facility known for constructing prominent warships and aircraft carriers before and during World War II.
E. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is a major U.S. Marine Corps installation in North Carolina known for its extensive amphibious warfare and combat training operations.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States Navy medical facility ⓘ military hospital ⓘ
commissioned	1942 ⓘ
constructionStartDate	1939 ⓘ
coordinateLocation	38.999°N 77.097°W ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ
function	provide medical care to U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel ⓘ provide medical care to U.S. presidents ⓘ provide medical care to senior U.S. government officials ⓘ teaching hospital ⓘ
hasFacility	emergency department ⓘ inpatient hospital ⓘ medical training facilities ⓘ outpatient clinics ⓘ research laboratories ⓘ surgical suites ⓘ
inception	1940 ⓘ
locatedIn	Bethesda, Maryland ⓘ
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory	Maryland ⓘ Montgomery County, Maryland ⓘ linked to: Montgomery County
mergedInto	Walter Reed National Military Medical Center ⓘ
mergerDate	2011 ⓘ
nearby	National Institutes of Health campus ⓘ linked to: National Institutes of Health
notableEvent	autopsy of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 ⓘ
notablePatient	Barack Obama ⓘ Bill Clinton ⓘ Dwight D. Eisenhower ⓘ Franklin D. Roosevelt ⓘ linked to: President Franklin D. Roosevelt George H. W. Bush ⓘ George W. Bush ⓘ Gerald Ford ⓘ Jimmy Carter ⓘ John F. Kennedy ⓘ Lyndon B. Johnson ⓘ Richard Nixon ⓘ Ronald Reagan ⓘ
officialName	National Naval Medical Center ⓘ linked to: Bethesda Naval Hospital
operatedBy	Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery ⓘ United States Navy ⓘ
ownedBy	United States Department of the Navy ⓘ linked to: Department of the Navy
partOf	Military Health System ⓘ linked to: U.S. military health system United States military health system ⓘ linked to: U.S. military health system
replacedBy	Walter Reed National Military Medical Center ⓘ
shortName	NNMC ⓘ
significantEvent	Gulf War medical treatment of service members ⓘ Korean War medical treatment of service members ⓘ Vietnam War medical treatment of service members ⓘ World War II medical treatment of service members ⓘ
status	former hospital ⓘ

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Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Assassination of John F. Kennedy → bodyTakenTo → Bethesda Naval Hospital ⓘ

Assassination of John F. Kennedy → autopsyLocation → Bethesda Naval Hospital ⓘ

North Bethesda, Maryland → nearbyFederalAgency → National Naval Medical Center ⓘ