USS Duncan (DD-653)
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USS Duncan (DD-653) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served during World War II and the early Cold War era.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USS Duncan (DD-653) canonical | 1 |
| USS Duncan (FFG-10) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7275499 — 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 Duncan (DD-653) Context triple: [USS Duncan (DD-485), successorName, USS Duncan (DD-653)]
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A.
USS La Vallette (DD-448)
USS La Vallette (DD-448) was a U.S. Navy Fletcher-class destroyer that saw extensive service in the Pacific during World War II.
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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 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.
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D.
USS Morris (DD-417)
USS Morris (DD-417) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that saw extensive and distinguished service in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat actions.
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E.
USS Gleaves (DD-423)
USS Gleaves (DD-423) was the lead ship of the Gleaves-class destroyers that served in the United States Navy 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: USS Duncan (DD-653) Target entity description: USS Duncan (DD-653) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served during World War II and the early Cold War era.
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A.
USS La Vallette (DD-448)
USS La Vallette (DD-448) was a U.S. Navy Fletcher-class destroyer that saw extensive service in the Pacific during World War II.
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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 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.
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D.
USS Morris (DD-417)
USS Morris (DD-417) was a U.S. Navy destroyer that saw extensive and distinguished service in the Pacific Theater during World War II, earning multiple battle stars for its combat actions.
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E.
USS Gleaves (DD-423)
USS Gleaves (DD-423) was the lead ship of the Gleaves-class destroyers that served in the United States Navy during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fletcher-class destroyer
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United States Navy warship ⓘ |
| armament |
5 × 5-inch/38 caliber guns
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anti-aircraft guns ⓘ depth charges ⓘ torpedo tubes ⓘ |
| awarded |
battle stars for Korean War service
ⓘ
battle stars for World War II service ⓘ |
| beam | approximately 39.75 feet ⓘ |
| builder | Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation ⓘ |
| buildLocation | Chickasaw, Alabama ⓘ |
| category |
Fletcher-class destroyers of the United States Navy
ⓘ
Korean War destroyers of the United States ⓘ Ships built in Chickasaw, Alabama ⓘ World War II destroyers of the United States ⓘ |
| commissionedDate | 25 February 1944 ⓘ |
| conflict |
Korean War
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement | approximately 329 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| decommissionedDate | 10 December 1947 ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | about 2,050 tons ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| finalDecommissionedDate | 15 January 1960 ⓘ |
| hullNumber | DD-653 ⓘ |
| laidDownDate | 16 February 1943 ⓘ |
| launchDate | 24 October 1943 ⓘ |
| length | approximately 376.5 feet ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 35 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Silas Duncan ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| precededBy | USS Duncan (DD-46) ⓘ |
| propulsion |
steam turbines
ⓘ
twin screws ⓘ |
| recommissionedDate | 26 March 1951 ⓘ |
| role |
anti-submarine warfare
ⓘ
escort ⓘ shore bombardment ⓘ |
| serviceEntryEra |
World War II
ⓘ
early Cold War ⓘ |
| shipClass | Fletcher class ⓘ |
| sponsor | Mrs. H. A. Weld ⓘ |
| strickenDate | 1 June 1971 ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
USS Duncan (FFG-10)
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linked to:
USS Duncan (DD-653)
|
| theaterOfOperations | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
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 Duncan (DD-653) Description of subject: USS Duncan (DD-653) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served during World War II and the early Cold War era.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
USS Duncan
linked to: USS Duncan (DD-653)