CA-35
E278436
CA-35 is the hull classification symbol for USS Indianapolis, a U.S. Navy Portland-class heavy cruiser best known for its World War II service and tragic sinking after delivering components of the first atomic bomb.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CA-35 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2565252 — 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: CA-35 Context triple: [USS Indianapolis (CA-35), hullNumber, CA-35]
-
A.
CA-13
CA-13 is a United States congressional district in California represented in the U.S. House of Representatives.
-
B.
AC-5
AC-5 was a class of Southern Pacific Railroad cab-forward articulated steam locomotives built in the late 1920s for heavy freight service over mountainous routes.
-
C.
LC-36A
LC-36A is one of the launch pads at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 36, historically used for Atlas rocket launches.
-
D.
C-10
C-10 is a commuter rail line within the Cercanías Madrid network that connects central Madrid with its surrounding metropolitan areas.
-
E.
S-100
S-100 is a modern, universal hydrographic data model and framework used as the basis for next-generation electronic navigational charts and related marine geospatial products.
- 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: CA-35 Target entity description: CA-35 is the hull classification symbol for USS Indianapolis, a U.S. Navy Portland-class heavy cruiser best known for its World War II service and tragic sinking after delivering components of the first atomic bomb.
-
A.
CA-13
CA-13 is a United States congressional district in California represented in the U.S. House of Representatives.
-
B.
AC-5
AC-5 was a class of Southern Pacific Railroad cab-forward articulated steam locomotives built in the late 1920s for heavy freight service over mountainous routes.
-
C.
LC-36A
LC-36A is one of the launch pads at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 36, historically used for Atlas rocket launches.
-
D.
C-10
C-10 is a commuter rail line within the Cercanías Madrid network that connects central Madrid with its surrounding metropolitan areas.
-
E.
S-100
S-100 is a modern, universal hydrographic data model and framework used as the basis for next-generation electronic navigational charts and related marine geospatial products.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Portland-class heavy cruiser
ⓘ
United States Navy cruiser ⓘ hull classification symbol ⓘ |
| armamentPrimary | 9 × 8-inch guns ⓘ |
| armamentSecondary | 5-inch guns ⓘ |
| awarded | Battle stars for World War II service ⓘ |
| beam | about 66 feet ⓘ |
| builder | New York Shipbuilding Corporation ⓘ |
| builtAt |
Camden, New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
Camden
|
| casualties | over 800 crew members killed ⓘ |
| causeOfSinking | torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-58 ⓘ |
| commandingOfficerAtSinking | Captain Charles B. McVay III ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1932-11-15 ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | Pacific War ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crewComplementWartime | approximately 1,200 officers and men ⓘ |
| deliveredTo |
Tinian, Mariana Islands
ⓘ
linked to:
Tinian
|
| departedFrom | San Francisco, California ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | approximately 12,800 long tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | approximately 9,800 long tons ⓘ |
| fate | sunk ⓘ |
| hullClassificationSymbol | CA-35 ⓘ |
| knownFor | one of the worst naval disasters in U.S. history ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1929-03-31 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1931-11-07 ⓘ |
| lengthOverall | about 610 feet ⓘ |
| locationOfSinking | Philippine Sea ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | approximately 32 knots ⓘ |
| memorialLocation |
Indianapolis, Indiana
ⓘ
linked to:
Indianapolis
|
| mission | transported components of the Little Boy atomic bomb to Tinian ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Indianapolis, Indiana
ⓘ
linked to:
Indianapolis
|
| notableEvent | sinking led to major changes in U.S. Navy reporting and rescue procedures ⓘ |
| notableFor | delivering components of the first operational atomic bomb ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| propulsion |
four propeller shafts
ⓘ
steam turbines ⓘ |
| refersTo |
USS Indianapolis
ⓘ
linked to:
USS Indianapolis (CA-35)
|
| role | flagship for the U.S. Fifth Fleet at times during World War II ⓘ |
| serviceEntryDecade | 1930s ⓘ |
| servicePeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| shipClass | Portland class ⓘ |
| shipType | heavy cruiser ⓘ |
| sunkDuring | World War II ⓘ |
| sunkOn | 1945-07-30 ⓘ |
| survivorsRescued | 316 ⓘ |
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: CA-35 Description of subject: CA-35 is the hull classification symbol for USS Indianapolis, a U.S. Navy Portland-class heavy cruiser best known for its World War II service and tragic sinking after delivering components of the first atomic bomb.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
CA-35