DE-131
E551727
DE-131 was the hull classification symbol for USS Hammann, a World War II-era U.S. Navy destroyer escort.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DE-131 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5833810 — 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: DE-131 Context triple: [USS Hammann (DE-131), hasDesignation, DE-131]
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A.
Dek
Dek is a short or informal nickname commonly used for someone named Derek.
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B.
DE4 Brandenburg
DE4 Brandenburg is the NUTS 1 statistical region corresponding to the federal state of Brandenburg in northeastern Germany.
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C.
Dieze
The Dieze is a river in the southern Netherlands that flows through the city of ’s-Hertogenbosch and ultimately drains into the Dommel and Aa river system.
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D.
Neudeck
Neudeck is a village in former East Prussia (now Ogrodzieniec in Poland) historically known as the family estate and place of death of German President and World War I field marshal Paul von Hindenburg.
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E.
Dezamet
Dezamet is a Polish defense manufacturer known for producing munitions and military equipment for the country’s armed forces and export markets.
- 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: DE-131 Target entity description: DE-131 was the hull classification symbol for USS Hammann, a World War II-era U.S. Navy destroyer escort.
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A.
Dek
Dek is a short or informal nickname commonly used for someone named Derek.
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B.
DE4 Brandenburg
DE4 Brandenburg is the NUTS 1 statistical region corresponding to the federal state of Brandenburg in northeastern Germany.
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C.
Dieze
The Dieze is a river in the southern Netherlands that flows through the city of ’s-Hertogenbosch and ultimately drains into the Dommel and Aa river system.
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D.
Neudeck
Neudeck is a village in former East Prussia (now Ogrodzieniec in Poland) historically known as the family estate and place of death of German President and World War I field marshal Paul von Hindenburg.
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E.
Dezamet
Dezamet is a Polish defense manufacturer known for producing munitions and military equipment for the country’s armed forces and export markets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy hull number
ⓘ
hull classification symbol ⓘ |
| appliesTo | USS Hammann (DE-131) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Atlantic theater of World War II
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Navy destroyer escorts ⓘ |
| category | World War II-era U.S. Navy ship designations ⓘ |
| classificationSystem | U.S. Navy hull classification system ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designationFor | destroyer escort USS Hammann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | World War II ⓘ |
| hasPrefix | DE ⓘ |
| hullNumber | 131 ⓘ |
| namedVessel | USS Hammann (DE-131) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navalPrefix | USS ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
U.S. Navy ship naming conventions
ⓘ
destroyer escort classification ⓘ |
| role |
anti-submarine warfare
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escort duties ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| shipType | destroyer escort ⓘ |
| symbolFor | USS Hammann (DE-131) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1940s ⓘ |
| usedBy | U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: DE-131 Description of subject: DE-131 was the hull classification symbol for USS Hammann, a World War II-era U.S. Navy destroyer escort.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.