USS Independence (CV-62)
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USS Independence (CV-62) was a Forrestal-class U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that served from the late 1950s through the Cold War and into the 1990s, participating in major operations including the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Independence (CV-62) canonical | 4 |
| USS Independence (CVL-22) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2596431 — 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 Independence (CV-62) Context triple: [USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), precededBy, USS Independence (CV-62)]
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A.
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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B.
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.
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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.
USS Lexington (CV-16)
USS Lexington (CV-16) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that served prominently in the Pacific Theater of World War II and later as a training carrier.
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E.
USS Wasp
USS Wasp was a prominent warship of the American Revolutionary-era Continental Navy, known for its role in early naval engagements against British forces.
- 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 Independence (CV-62) Target entity description: USS Independence (CV-62) was a Forrestal-class U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that served from the late 1950s through the Cold War and into the 1990s, participating in major operations including the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm.
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A.
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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B.
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.
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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.
USS Lexington (CV-16)
USS Lexington (CV-16) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that served prominently in the Pacific Theater of World War II and later as a training carrier.
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E.
USS Wasp
USS Wasp was a prominent warship of the American Revolutionary-era Continental Navy, known for its role in early naval engagements against British forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Independence (CV-62) Description of subject: USS Independence (CV-62) was a Forrestal-class U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that served from the late 1950s through the Cold War and into the 1990s, participating in major operations including the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Independence-class aircraft carriers
linked to: USS Independence (CV-62)
subject linked to:
Independence-class aircraft carriers
linked to: USS Independence (CV-62)