BB-38
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BB-38 is the hull number of USS Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during both World Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| BB-38 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T512931 — 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: BB-38 Context triple: [USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), hullNumber, BB-38]
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A.
BB-39
BB-39 is the hull classification symbol for USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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B.
BB-36
BB-36 is the hull classification symbol for USS Nevada, a U.S. Navy battleship notable for its service during both World Wars and survival of the Pearl Harbor attack.
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C.
BB-37
BB-37 is the hull number of USS Oklahoma, a Nevada-class battleship of the United States Navy that was sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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D.
BB-31
BB-31 was the original battleship designation for USS Utah, a Florida-class dreadnought that later served as a target and training ship for the U.S. Navy.
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E.
BB-43
BB-43 is the hull classification symbol for USS Tennessee, a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during 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: BB-38 Target entity description: BB-38 is the hull number of USS Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during both World Wars.
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A.
BB-39
BB-39 is the hull classification symbol for USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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B.
BB-36
BB-36 is the hull classification symbol for USS Nevada, a U.S. Navy battleship notable for its service during both World Wars and survival of the Pearl Harbor attack.
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C.
BB-37
BB-37 is the hull number of USS Oklahoma, a Nevada-class battleship of the United States Navy that was sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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D.
BB-31
BB-31 was the original battleship designation for USS Utah, a Florida-class dreadnought that later served as a target and training ship for the U.S. Navy.
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E.
BB-43
BB-43 is the hull classification symbol for USS Tennessee, a Tennessee-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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: BB-38 Description of subject: BB-38 is the hull number of USS Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently during both World Wars.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.