USS Noa (DD-841)
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USS Noa (DD-841) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy best known for recovering astronaut John Glenn and his Friendship 7 capsule after the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Noa (DD-841) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6104388 — 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 Noa (DD-841) Context triple: [Mercury-Atlas 6, recoveryShip, USS Noa (DD-841)]
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USS Callaghan (DD-792)
USS Callaghan (DD-792) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served in World War II and was named in honor of Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan.
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B.
USS Walke (DD-723)
USS Walke (DD-723) was an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served prominently during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
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C.
USS Turner Joy (DD-951)
USS Turner Joy (DD-951) was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of the United States Navy best known for its controversial role in the events that escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
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D.
USS Johnston (DD-557)
USS Johnston (DD-557) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the U.S. Navy renowned for its heroic, outgunned charge against a superior Japanese fleet during the Battle off Samar in World War II.
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E.
USS Hoel (DD-533)
USS Hoel (DD-533) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy that gained renown for its heroic but doomed attack against a vastly superior Japanese force during the Battle off Samar in World War II.
- 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 Noa (DD-841) Target entity description: USS Noa (DD-841) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy best known for recovering astronaut John Glenn and his Friendship 7 capsule after the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission.
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A.
USS Callaghan (DD-792)
USS Callaghan (DD-792) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served in World War II and was named in honor of Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan.
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B.
USS Walke (DD-723)
USS Walke (DD-723) was an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served prominently during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
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C.
USS Turner Joy (DD-951)
USS Turner Joy (DD-951) was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of the United States Navy best known for its controversial role in the events that escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
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D.
USS Johnston (DD-557)
USS Johnston (DD-557) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the U.S. Navy renowned for its heroic, outgunned charge against a superior Japanese fleet during the Battle off Samar in World War II.
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E.
USS Hoel (DD-533)
USS Hoel (DD-533) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy that gained renown for its heroic but doomed attack against a vastly superior Japanese force during the Battle off Samar in World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gearing-class destroyer
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United States Navy warship ⓘ |
| armament |
20 mm anti-aircraft guns
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40 mm anti-aircraft guns ⓘ 5 in/38 caliber guns ⓘ depth charges ⓘ torpedo tubes ⓘ |
| beam | 40 ft 10 in ⓘ |
| category |
Cold War destroyers of the United States
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Gearing-class destroyers of the United States Navy ⓘ Ships built in Bath, Maine ⓘ |
| commissionedDate | 1946-02-02 ⓘ |
| conflictParticipation |
Korean War era operations
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Vietnam War era operations ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crewComplement | approximately 336 ⓘ |
| decommissionedDate | 1973-10-31 ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | approximately 3,460 tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | approximately 2,425 tons ⓘ |
| draft | 14 ft 4 in ⓘ |
| era | Cold War ⓘ |
| fate | transferred to Spanish Navy ⓘ |
| fleetAssignment | Atlantic Fleet ⓘ |
| homeport | Norfolk, Virginia ⓘ |
| hullNumber | DD-841 ⓘ |
| laidDownAt | Bath, Maine ⓘ |
| laidDownBy |
Bath Iron Works
ⓘ
linked to:
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works
|
| laidDownDate | 1945-01-26 ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1945-07-30 ⓘ |
| launchedBy |
Bath Iron Works
ⓘ
linked to:
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works
|
| length | 390 ft 6 in ⓘ |
| mission | spacecraft recovery operations for NASA Mercury program ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Heman Noa ⓘ |
| navalRegistry | U.S. Navy hull classification symbol DD-841 ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
recovered Friendship 7 spacecraft after splashdown
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recovered astronaut John Glenn after Mercury-Atlas 6 mission ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| pennantNumberInSpanishNavy | D65 ⓘ |
| propulsion |
2 geared steam turbines
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2 shafts ⓘ 4 boilers ⓘ |
| recoveredAstronaut | John Glenn ⓘ |
| recoveredSpacecraft | Friendship 7 ⓘ |
| recoveryDateOfJohnGlenn | 1962-02-20 ⓘ |
| shipClass | Gearing class ⓘ |
| sponsor | Miss Ann Noa ⓘ |
| subsequentName | Blas de Lezo (D65) ⓘ |
| topSpeed | 35 knots ⓘ |
| type | destroyer ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Noa (DD-841) Description of subject: USS Noa (DD-841) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy best known for recovering astronaut John Glenn and his Friendship 7 capsule after the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission.
Referenced by (2)
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