USS Midway (CV-41)
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USS Midway (CV-41) was a long-serving U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that saw action from the end of World War II through the Gulf War and is now preserved as a museum ship in San Diego.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USS Midway (CV-41) canonical | 6 |
| USS Midway | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9843001 — 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 Midway (CV-41) Context triple: [Midway-class aircraft carrier, shipInClass, USS Midway (CV-41)]
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A.
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) was a U.S. Navy Kitty Hawk–class supercarrier that served as a key conventionally powered aircraft carrier from the early 1960s until its decommissioning in 2009.
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B.
USS Randolph (CVS-15)
USS Randolph (CVS-15) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that notably served as the primary recovery ship for John Glenn’s historic Mercury-Atlas 6 orbital spaceflight.
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C.
USS Hornet (CV-12)
USS Hornet (CV-12) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that saw extensive service in World War II and is now preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California.
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D.
USS Ranger (CV-61)
USS Ranger (CV-61) was a U.S. Navy supercarrier that served from the late 1950s through the early 1990s, participating in Cold War operations and the Vietnam War.
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E.
USS Saratoga (CV-60)
USS Saratoga (CV-60) was a U.S. Navy supercarrier that served during the Cold War and participated in major operations including the Vietnam War and the Gulf War.
- 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 Midway (CV-41) Target entity description: USS Midway (CV-41) was a long-serving U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that saw action from the end of World War II through the Gulf War and is now preserved as a museum ship in San Diego.
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A.
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) was a U.S. Navy Kitty Hawk–class supercarrier that served as a key conventionally powered aircraft carrier from the early 1960s until its decommissioning in 2009.
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B.
USS Randolph (CVS-15)
USS Randolph (CVS-15) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that notably served as the primary recovery ship for John Glenn’s historic Mercury-Atlas 6 orbital spaceflight.
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C.
USS Hornet (CV-12)
USS Hornet (CV-12) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that saw extensive service in World War II and is now preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California.
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D.
USS Ranger (CV-61)
USS Ranger (CV-61) was a U.S. Navy supercarrier that served from the late 1950s through the early 1990s, participating in Cold War operations and the Vietnam War.
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E.
USS Saratoga (CV-60)
USS Saratoga (CV-60) was a U.S. Navy supercarrier that served during the Cold War and participated in major operations including the Vietnam War and the Gulf War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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 Midway (CV-41) Description of subject: USS Midway (CV-41) was a long-serving U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that saw action from the end of World War II through the Gulf War and is now preserved as a museum ship in San Diego.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: USS Midway (CV-41)
subject linked to:
escort carrier USS St. Lo
linked to: USS Midway (CV-41)