USS Lamson
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USS Lamson was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served in World War II and was later used as a target ship during the Bikini Atoll atomic tests, where it was sunk and now lies as a shipwreck.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USS Lamson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2708244 — 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 Lamson Context triple: [Bikini Atoll, hasShipwreck, USS Lamson]
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A.
USS Leonard F. Mason
USS Leonard F. Mason was a U.S. Navy destroyer best known for serving as the primary recovery ship for NASA’s Gemini 8 space mission.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
USS Pope
USS Pope was a U.S. Navy Clemson-class destroyer that saw intense action in the early Pacific War before being lost during the Japanese advance in 1942.
- 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 Lamson Target entity description: USS Lamson was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served in World War II and was later used as a target ship during the Bikini Atoll atomic tests, where it was sunk and now lies as a shipwreck.
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A.
USS Leonard F. Mason
USS Leonard F. Mason was a U.S. Navy destroyer best known for serving as the primary recovery ship for NASA’s Gemini 8 space mission.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
USS Pope
USS Pope was a U.S. Navy Clemson-class destroyer that saw intense action in the early Pacific War before being lost during the Japanese advance in 1942.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Farragut-class destroyer
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United States Navy destroyer ⓘ World War II warship ⓘ |
| armament |
5-inch/38 caliber guns
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torpedo tubes ⓘ |
| battleHonors |
Pacific Theater operations
ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific Theater of Operations
|
| builder |
Bath Iron Works
ⓘ
linked to:
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works
|
| builtAt |
Bath Iron Works
ⓘ
linked to:
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works
|
| category |
Nuclear test target ships
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Ships sunk as targets ⓘ Shipwrecks of the Marshall Islands ⓘ World War II destroyers of the United States ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1936-10-21 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| decommissionedOn | 1946-07-29 ⓘ |
| displacement | approximately 1,500 tons standard ⓘ |
| era | 20th century warship ⓘ |
| fate | Sunk as target during nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll ⓘ |
| flag |
United States Navy ensign
ⓘ
linked to:
Ensign of the United States Navy
|
| homeport | Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
| hullNumber | DD-367 ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1934-03-20 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1936-06-17 ⓘ |
| location | Bikini Atoll lagoon ⓘ |
| material | steel hull ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Roswell Hawkes Lamson ⓘ |
| navalRegistry | United States Navy hull classification symbol DD-367 ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Pacific War
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ amphibious operations in the Pacific ⓘ convoy escort operations in the Pacific ⓘ pre-war peacetime fleet exercises ⓘ |
| propulsion | steam turbines ⓘ |
| role |
anti-aircraft defense ship
ⓘ
anti-submarine warfare ship ⓘ screening vessel for larger warships ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| serviceEntryEra | Interwar period ⓘ |
| shipClass | Farragut-class destroyer ⓘ |
| shipType | destroyer ⓘ |
| status | shipwreck ⓘ |
| sunkIn | Bikini Atoll ⓘ |
| sunkOn | 1946-07-02 ⓘ |
| tookPartIn |
Bikini Atoll atomic tests
ⓘ
linked to:
Bikini Atoll
Operation Crossroads ⓘ |
| usedAs | target ship ⓘ |
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 Lamson Description of subject: USS Lamson was a U.S. Navy destroyer that served in World War II and was later used as a target ship during the Bikini Atoll atomic tests, where it was sunk and now lies as a shipwreck.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
United States Navy hull classification symbol DD-367