USS White Plains (CVE-66)
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USS White Plains (CVE-66) was a U.S. Navy Casablanca-class escort aircraft carrier that saw significant action in the Pacific during World War II, including the Battle off Samar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| USS White Plains (CVE-66) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11324230 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: USS White Plains (CVE-66) Context triple: [Action off Samar, notableShip, USS White Plains (CVE-66)]
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USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73)
USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) was a U.S. Navy Casablanca-class escort carrier famed for her outgunned but heroic stand against a superior Japanese force during the Battle off Samar in World War II, where she became the only American aircraft carrier sunk by naval gunfire.
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B.
USS Kalinin Bay (CVE-68)
USS Kalinin Bay (CVE-68) was a U.S. Navy Casablanca-class escort carrier renowned for her outgunned but pivotal role in the Battle off Samar during World War II.
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C.
USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70)
USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70) was a U.S. Navy Casablanca-class escort carrier that played a key role in the Battle off Samar during World War II as part of the famed "Taffy" escort carrier groups.
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USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)
USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) was an Independence-class light aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that saw extensive combat service in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
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E.
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) was an Essex-class U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that saw extensive combat service in the Pacific Theater during World War II, including major operations against Japan.
- 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 White Plains (CVE-66) Target entity description: USS White Plains (CVE-66) was a U.S. Navy Casablanca-class escort aircraft carrier that saw significant action in the Pacific during World War II, including the Battle off Samar.
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A.
USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73)
USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) was a U.S. Navy Casablanca-class escort carrier famed for her outgunned but heroic stand against a superior Japanese force during the Battle off Samar in World War II, where she became the only American aircraft carrier sunk by naval gunfire.
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B.
USS Kalinin Bay (CVE-68)
USS Kalinin Bay (CVE-68) was a U.S. Navy Casablanca-class escort carrier renowned for her outgunned but pivotal role in the Battle off Samar during World War II.
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C.
USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70)
USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70) was a U.S. Navy Casablanca-class escort carrier that played a key role in the Battle off Samar during World War II as part of the famed "Taffy" escort carrier groups.
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D.
USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)
USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) was an Independence-class light aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that saw extensive combat service in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
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E.
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) was an Essex-class U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that saw extensive combat service in the Pacific Theater during World War II, including major operations against Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Casablanca-class escort carrier
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United States Navy ship ⓘ World War II escort aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| airGroupSize | about 28 aircraft ⓘ |
| armamentWartime |
1 × 5 in/38 caliber dual-purpose gun
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12 × 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons ⓘ 16 × 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| awards |
Presidential Unit Citation
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linked to:
Presidential Unit Citation (United States)
battle stars for World War II service ⓘ |
| beam | about 65 ft ⓘ |
| builder |
Kaiser Shipyards
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linked to:
Kaiser Richmond Shipyards
|
| builtAt | Vancouver, Washington ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1943-11-15 ⓘ |
| conflict | Pacific War ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewComplement | about 860 officers and enlisted ⓘ |
| decommissionedOn | 1946-07-10 ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | about 10,400 long tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | about 7,800 long tons ⓘ |
| draft | about 22 ft ⓘ |
| engagedEnemyTypeAtBattleOffSamar |
Japanese battleships
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Japanese cruisers ⓘ Japanese destroyers ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| flag | United States Navy ensign ⓘ |
| flightDeckBeam | about 108 ft ⓘ |
| hullNumber | CVE-66 ⓘ |
| installedPower | 9,000 shp ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1943-03-11 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1943-07-27 ⓘ |
| lengthOverall | about 512 ft ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 19 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Battle of White Plains ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Leyte
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Battle of the Philippine Sea ⓘ Battle off Samar ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | CVE-66 ⓘ |
| primaryMissions |
air support for amphibious operations
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anti-submarine warfare ⓘ convoy escort ⓘ |
| primaryRole | escort aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| propulsion |
2 Skinner Unaflow reciprocating steam engines
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2 shafts ⓘ |
| scrappedIn | 1960 ⓘ |
| serviceEntryConflict | World War II ⓘ |
| shipClass | Casablanca class ⓘ |
| strickenFromNavalRegisterOn | 1958-05-01 ⓘ |
| taskUnit | Taffy 3 ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Pacific Theater of World War II
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linked to:
Pacific Theater of Operations
|
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 White Plains (CVE-66) Description of subject: USS White Plains (CVE-66) was a U.S. Navy Casablanca-class escort aircraft carrier that saw significant action in the Pacific during World War II, including the Battle off Samar.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
escort carrier group Taffy 3