wfzimmerman/fleets-of-wwii-design-commentary
Fleets of World War II — warship classes & design commentary The structured database inside Fleets of World War II: Design History and Analysis for Every Ship of Every Navy (Richard Worth, Nimble Books, ISBN 9781608881604). Two layers: config rows what ship_classes 1009 one record per warship class — nation, ship type, class name, ships in class, key specs, and Worth's design commentary (why it was built that way, its strengths/flaws) section_overview 216 the Nation… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/wfzimmerman/fleets-of-wwii-design-commentary.
Fleets of World War II — warship classes & design commentary
The structured database inside Fleets of World War II: Design History and Analysis for Every Ship of Every Navy (Richard Worth, Nimble Books, ISBN 9781608881604). Two layers:
ship_classes spans 19 navies — every major class from the Yamato and Iowa battleships to escort carriers and motor torpedo boats — with the design reasoning that flat ship lists omit. This is the analytical layer, in structured form, that does not exist anywhere else.
How it was built
The Nation/Ship-Type hierarchy was parsed deterministically from the book's typography (14pt-bold nations, 12pt-bold types, 11pt commentary). The per-class split of each section was done by an LLM faithful to the source text (no invented ships, specs, or analysis), keyed to the parsed hierarchy.
Provenance & rights
Published with the permission of Nimble Books LLC under CC BY-NC 4.0 — free for non-commercial and research use with attribution. Commercial use requires a license from Nimble Books LLC (editorial@bigfivekiller.online).
Source & full work
The complete Fleets of World War II, Nimble Books. https://bigfivekiller.online/books/9781608881604/