USS Wyoming (BB-32)
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United States Navy ship
World War I warship
Wyoming-class battleship
dreadnought battleship
gunnery training ship
USS Wyoming (BB-32) was the lead ship of the United States Navy’s Wyoming-class dreadnought battleships, which served in both World Wars before later being converted into a training vessel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USS Wyoming (BB-32) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10762139 — 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 Wyoming (BB-32) Context triple: [Wyoming class, hasPart, USS Wyoming (BB-32)]
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A.
USS Washington (BB-47)
USS Washington (BB-47) was an American Colorado-class battleship whose construction was halted and hull scrapped under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty before it could be completed or commissioned.
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B.
USS Utah (BB-31)
USS Utah (BB-31) was a United States Navy battleship later converted to a target ship that was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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C.
USS New York (BB-34)
USS New York (BB-34) was a United States Navy battleship that served in both World War I and World War II, participating in major Atlantic and Pacific operations before being used as a target in atomic bomb tests.
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D.
USS Nevada (BB-36)
USS Nevada (BB-36) was a United States Navy battleship notable for its World War I and World War II service, including being the only battleship to get underway during the attack on Pearl Harbor and later supporting major Allied amphibious operations in Europe and the Pacific.
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E.
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently in both World Wars, particularly in the Pacific Theater.
- 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 Wyoming (BB-32) Target entity description: USS Wyoming (BB-32) was the lead ship of the United States Navy’s Wyoming-class dreadnought battleships, which served in both World Wars before later being converted into a training vessel.
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A.
USS Washington (BB-47)
USS Washington (BB-47) was an American Colorado-class battleship whose construction was halted and hull scrapped under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty before it could be completed or commissioned.
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B.
USS Utah (BB-31)
USS Utah (BB-31) was a United States Navy battleship later converted to a target ship that was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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C.
USS New York (BB-34)
USS New York (BB-34) was a United States Navy battleship that served in both World War I and World War II, participating in major Atlantic and Pacific operations before being used as a target in atomic bomb tests.
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D.
USS Nevada (BB-36)
USS Nevada (BB-36) was a United States Navy battleship notable for its World War I and World War II service, including being the only battleship to get underway during the attack on Pearl Harbor and later supporting major Allied amphibious operations in Europe and the Pacific.
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E.
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy that served prominently in both World Wars, particularly in the Pacific Theater.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy ship
ⓘ
World War I warship ⓘ Wyoming-class battleship ⓘ dreadnought battleship ⓘ gunnery training ship ⓘ |
| armamentModernization | received anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| armamentPrimary | 12 × 12-inch/50 caliber guns ⓘ |
| armamentSecondary | 5-inch guns ⓘ |
| beam |
93 feet
ⓘ
about 28 meters ⓘ |
| builder | William Cramp & Sons ⓘ |
| category |
Wyoming-class battleships of the United States Navy
ⓘ
linked to:
Wyoming class
|
| commissionedOn | 1912-09-25 ⓘ |
| conversionPeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| convertedTo | training ship ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crewComplement | over 1,000 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| decommissionedOn | 1947-08-01 ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | about 27,000 long tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | about 26,000 long tons ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| homeportDuringCareer | Atlantic Fleet bases ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1909-02-09 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1911-05-25 ⓘ |
| leadShipOfClass | Wyoming class ⓘ |
| lengthOverall |
562 feet
ⓘ
about 171 meters ⓘ |
| locationOfConstruction |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| maximumSpeed | about 20.5 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
U.S. state of Wyoming
ⓘ
linked to:
Wyoming
|
| notableActivity | midshipmen training cruises ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| partOfClass | Wyoming class ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | BB-32 ⓘ |
| precededByClass | Florida class ⓘ |
| propulsion |
steam turbines
ⓘ
twelve coal-fired boilers ⓘ |
| roleInWorldWarI |
escorted convoys
ⓘ
served with the British Grand Fleet ⓘ |
| roleInWorldWarII | gunnery training ship ⓘ |
| servedInConflict |
World War I
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World War II ⓘ |
| shipNumber | BB-32 ⓘ |
| soldForScrapOn | 1947-10-30 ⓘ |
| strickenFromNavalRegisterOn | 1947-08-16 ⓘ |
| succeededByClass | New York class ⓘ |
| type | pre–Washington Naval Treaty battleship ⓘ |
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 Wyoming (BB-32) Description of subject: USS Wyoming (BB-32) was the lead ship of the United States Navy’s Wyoming-class dreadnought battleships, which served in both World Wars before later being converted into a training vessel.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.