USS Apogon
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USS Apogon was a U.S. Navy Balao-class submarine that served in World War II and was later sunk during the Operation Crossroads atomic tests at Bikini Atoll.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Apogon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2708245 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: USS Apogon Context triple: [Bikini Atoll, hasShipwreck, USS Apogon]
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A.
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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B.
USS Pampanito
USS Pampanito is a World War II-era Balao-class submarine preserved as a museum ship and memorial in San Francisco.
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C.
USS Farenholt
USS Farenholt was a U.S. Navy Benson-class destroyer that saw extensive combat service in the Pacific during World War II.
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D.
USS Pillsbury
USS Pillsbury was a U.S. Navy destroyer escort best known for helping capture the German submarine U-505 during World War II.
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E.
USS Silversides (SS-236)
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.
- 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 Apogon Target entity description: USS Apogon was a U.S. Navy Balao-class submarine that served in World War II and was later sunk during the Operation Crossroads atomic tests at Bikini Atoll.
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A.
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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B.
USS Pampanito
USS Pampanito is a World War II-era Balao-class submarine preserved as a museum ship and memorial in San Francisco.
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C.
USS Farenholt
USS Farenholt was a U.S. Navy Benson-class destroyer that saw extensive combat service in the Pacific during World War II.
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D.
USS Pillsbury
USS Pillsbury was a U.S. Navy destroyer escort best known for helping capture the German submarine U-505 during World War II.
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E.
USS Silversides (SS-236)
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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 Apogon Description of subject: USS Apogon was a U.S. Navy Balao-class submarine that served in World War II and was later sunk during the Operation Crossroads atomic tests at Bikini Atoll.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.