CV-18
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CV-18 is the hull classification and pennant number of USS Wasp, an Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II and the Cold War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| CV-18 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6979154 — 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: CV-18 Context triple: [USS Wasp (CV-18), pennantNumber, CV-18]
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A.
CV-10
CV-10 is the hull number of USS Yorktown, a famed Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and is now preserved as a museum ship.
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B.
CV-12
CV-12 is the hull number of USS Hornet, a famed U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that saw extensive service in World War II and later conflicts.
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C.
CV-59
CV-59 is the hull classification and pennant number of USS Forrestal, the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s Forrestal-class supercarriers and one of the first supercarriers ever built.
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D.
CV-5
CV-5 was the hull classification and pennant number of USS Yorktown, a famed U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that played a crucial role in early World War II Pacific battles before being sunk at Midway.
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E.
CVA-9
CVA-9 was the postwar attack aircraft carrier designation for USS Essex (CV-9), a World War II-era Essex-class carrier that later served in the Korean War and beyond.
- 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: CV-18 Target entity description: CV-18 is the hull classification and pennant number of USS Wasp, an Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II and the Cold War.
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A.
CV-10
CV-10 is the hull number of USS Yorktown, a famed Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and is now preserved as a museum ship.
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B.
CV-12
CV-12 is the hull number of USS Hornet, a famed U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier that saw extensive service in World War II and later conflicts.
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C.
CV-59
CV-59 is the hull classification and pennant number of USS Forrestal, the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s Forrestal-class supercarriers and one of the first supercarriers ever built.
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D.
CV-5
CV-5 was the hull classification and pennant number of USS Yorktown, a famed U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that played a crucial role in early World War II Pacific battles before being sunk at Midway.
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E.
CVA-9
CVA-9 was the postwar attack aircraft carrier designation for USS Essex (CV-9), a World War II-era Essex-class carrier that later served in the Korean War and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Essex-class aircraft carrier
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aircraft carrier ⓘ hull classification symbol ⓘ pennant number ⓘ |
| airGroupCapacity | about 90–100 aircraft ⓘ |
| armament | 5-inch/38 caliber guns ⓘ |
| awarded | battle stars for World War II service ⓘ |
| beam | 28.4 m ⓘ |
| builder |
Bethlehem Steel Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
|
| builtAt | Quincy, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| class | Essex class ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1943-11-24 ⓘ |
| conflict |
Cold War
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World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| decommissionedOn | 1972-07-01 ⓘ |
| displacement |
27200 long tons (standard)
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36600 long tons (full load) ⓘ |
| era |
Cold War era
ⓘ
World War II era ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
|
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| homeport | various U.S. Navy bases ⓘ |
| hullNumber | CV-18 ⓘ |
| identifies | USS Wasp (CV-18) ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1942-03-18 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1943-08-17 ⓘ |
| length | 270.7 m ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 33 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Wasp ⓘ |
| numberInNameSeries | ninth U.S. ship named Wasp ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Pacific Theater of World War II
ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific War
|
| partOf | Essex class ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | CV-18 ⓘ |
| propulsion |
4 shafts
ⓘ
steam turbines ⓘ |
| reclassifiedAs |
antisubmarine warfare support carrier (CVS-18)
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attack aircraft carrier (CVA-18) ⓘ |
| scrappedOn | 1973 ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| successorNameCarrier | USS Wasp (LHD-1) ⓘ |
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: CV-18 Description of subject: CV-18 is the hull classification and pennant number of USS Wasp, an Essex-class aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II and the Cold War.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.