USS Henley (DD-39)
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USS Henley (DD-39) was a Paulding-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served during the early 20th century, including World War I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS Henley (DD-39) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11043627 — 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 Henley (DD-39) Context triple: [USS Henley (DD-391), precededBy, USS Henley (DD-39)]
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USS Henley (DD-391)
USS Henley (DD-391) was a Bagley-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served in the Pacific during World War II before being sunk in 1943.
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B.
USS Sampson (DD-63)
USS Sampson (DD-63) was a United States Navy Sampson-class destroyer that served during World War I, primarily in convoy escort and patrol duties in the Atlantic.
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C.
USS Decatur (DD-5)
USS Decatur (DD-5) was a Bainbridge-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served in the early 20th century, including during World War I.
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D.
USS Benson (DD-421)
USS Benson (DD-421) was a World War II-era United States Navy destroyer and the lead ship of the Benson-class.
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E.
USS Cassin (DD-43)
USS Cassin (DD-43) was a U.S. Navy Cassin-class destroyer that served during World War I, notably surviving a German U-boat torpedo attack in 1917.
- 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 Henley (DD-39) Target entity description: USS Henley (DD-39) was a Paulding-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served during the early 20th century, including World War I.
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A.
USS Henley (DD-391)
USS Henley (DD-391) was a Bagley-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served in the Pacific during World War II before being sunk in 1943.
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B.
USS Sampson (DD-63)
USS Sampson (DD-63) was a United States Navy Sampson-class destroyer that served during World War I, primarily in convoy escort and patrol duties in the Atlantic.
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C.
USS Decatur (DD-5)
USS Decatur (DD-5) was a Bainbridge-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served in the early 20th century, including during World War I.
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D.
USS Benson (DD-421)
USS Benson (DD-421) was a World War II-era United States Navy destroyer and the lead ship of the Benson-class.
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E.
USS Cassin (DD-43)
USS Cassin (DD-43) was a U.S. Navy Cassin-class destroyer that served during World War I, notably surviving a German U-boat torpedo attack in 1917.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Paulding-class destroyer
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United States Navy destroyer ⓘ World War I warship ⓘ |
| armament |
5 × 3-inch/50 caliber guns
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6 × 18-inch torpedo tubes ⓘ |
| assignedTo | Atlantic Fleet ⓘ |
| beam | 26 ft 11 in ⓘ |
| builder | Fore River Shipbuilding Company ⓘ |
| category |
1912 ships
ⓘ
Paulding-class destroyers ⓘ
linked to:
Paulding-class destroyer
Ships built in Quincy, Massachusetts ⓘ World War I destroyers of the United States ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1912-12-05 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement | about 86 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| decommissionedOn | 1919-10-12 ⓘ |
| displacement | 742 long tons (standard) ⓘ |
| draft | 8 ft 4 in ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrapping ⓘ |
| followedBy | USS Beale (DD-40) ⓘ |
| homeport | various East Coast ports of the United States ⓘ |
| hullNumber | DD-39 ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1911-07-17 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1912-04-03 ⓘ |
| length | 293 ft 10 in ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Robert Henley ⓘ |
| notableActivity | escorted convoys to the British Isles during World War I ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| precededBy | USS Roe (DD-24) ⓘ |
| propulsion |
oil-fired boilers
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| role |
convoy escort
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destroyer escort ⓘ patrol vessel ⓘ |
| servedInConflict | World War I ⓘ |
| shipClass |
Paulding class
ⓘ
linked to:
Paulding-class destroyer
|
| soldForScrapOn | 1936-04-23 ⓘ |
| sponsor | Miss Margaret Henley ⓘ |
| strickenOn | 1935-03-08 ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Atlantic Ocean
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European waters ⓘ |
| topSpeed | 29.5 knots ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Henley (DD-39) Description of subject: USS Henley (DD-39) was a Paulding-class destroyer of the United States Navy that served during the early 20th century, including World War I.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.