USS Lawrence
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USS Lawrence was an American brig that served as Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s flagship during the pivotal War of 1812 Battle of Lake Erie.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Lawrence canonical | 6 |
| USS Lawrence (several U.S. Navy ships) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2327935 — 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 Lawrence Context triple: [Battle of Lake Erie, shipInvolved, USS Lawrence]
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A.
USS Buchanan
USS Buchanan was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served with distinction in the Pacific Theater during World War II, participating in multiple key naval engagements.
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B.
USS Preble
USS Preble was a U.S. Navy warship that gained distinction for its service during the War of 1812, particularly in the Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain.
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C.
USS Helena
USS Helena was a U.S. Navy light cruiser that saw significant action in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning distinction for its role in several major naval engagements.
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D.
USS Duncan
USS Duncan was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served in the Pacific during World War II and was lost in combat in 1942.
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E.
USS Macdonough
USS Macdonough is the name given to several United States Navy warships honoring Commodore Thomas Macdonough, a notable naval officer from the War of 1812.
- 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 Lawrence Target entity description: USS Lawrence was an American brig that served as Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s flagship during the pivotal War of 1812 Battle of Lake Erie.
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A.
USS Buchanan
USS Buchanan was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served with distinction in the Pacific Theater during World War II, participating in multiple key naval engagements.
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B.
USS Preble
USS Preble was a U.S. Navy warship that gained distinction for its service during the War of 1812, particularly in the Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain.
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C.
USS Helena
USS Helena was a U.S. Navy light cruiser that saw significant action in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning distinction for its role in several major naval engagements.
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D.
USS Duncan
USS Duncan was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served in the Pacific during World War II and was lost in combat in 1942.
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E.
USS Macdonough
USS Macdonough is the name given to several United States Navy warships honoring Commodore Thomas Macdonough, a notable naval officer from the War of 1812.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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 Lawrence Description of subject: USS Lawrence was an American brig that served as Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s flagship during the pivotal War of 1812 Battle of Lake Erie.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: USS Lawrence