REC
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REC is the common abbreviation for the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment, an elite armored unit of the French Foreign Legion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| REC canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13264700 — 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: REC Context triple: [1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment, hasNickname, REC]
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A.
REC
REC is the standard abbreviation used by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to denote a finalized, stable web standard known as a W3C Recommendation.
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B.
The Rec
The Rec is a well-known sports and recreation ground, most famously serving as the home stadium of the Bath Rugby Club in Bath, England.
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C.
REV
REV is the stock ticker symbol for Revlon Inc., a major American cosmetics, skincare, fragrance, and personal care company.
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D.
RE
RE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to the French overseas department and region of Réunion.
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E.
RE
RE is a centrist, pro-European French political party founded by Emmanuel Macron and formerly known as La République En Marche!.
- 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: REC Target entity description: REC is the common abbreviation for the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment, an elite armored unit of the French Foreign Legion.
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A.
REC
REC is the standard abbreviation used by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to denote a finalized, stable web standard known as a W3C Recommendation.
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B.
The Rec
The Rec is a well-known sports and recreation ground, most famously serving as the home stadium of the Bath Rugby Club in Bath, England.
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C.
REV
REV is the stock ticker symbol for Revlon Inc., a major American cosmetics, skincare, fragrance, and personal care company.
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D.
RE
RE is the vehicle registration code used for the city of Recklinghausen in Germany.
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E.
RE
RE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to the French overseas department and region of Réunion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
armoured cavalry regiment
ⓘ
military unit ⓘ regiment of the French Foreign Legion ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
1er REC
ⓘ
REC ⓘ |
| allegiance | French Foreign Legion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | French armoured cavalry traditions ⓘ |
| branch | French Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commandLanguage | French ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| fullName | 1er Régiment Étranger de Cavalerie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullNameInEnglish | 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| garrison | Carpiagne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| garrisonCountry | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| garrisonRegion | Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEquipmentType |
armoured vehicles
ⓘ
reconnaissance vehicles ⓘ |
| hasMottoLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasNickname | 1er REC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOperationalCommand | French Army land forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasParentOrganization | Commandement de la Légion étrangère NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTraditions |
French Foreign Legion traditions
ⓘ
cavalry traditions ⓘ |
| isAbbreviationOf |
1er Régiment Étranger de Cavalerie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isActive | true ⓘ |
| isEliteUnit | true ⓘ |
| isProfessionalUnit | true ⓘ |
| languageOfName | French ⓘ |
| militarySpecialization |
armour
ⓘ
cavalry ⓘ |
| notableFor |
armoured reconnaissance capabilities
ⓘ
service in overseas operations ⓘ |
| partOf |
French Army cavalry arm
ⓘ
French Foreign Legion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recruitment |
French officers
ⓘ
foreign volunteers ⓘ |
| role |
armoured cavalry
ⓘ
armoured warfare ⓘ reconnaissance ⓘ |
| serviceBranchRole | cavalry and armoured reconnaissance ⓘ |
| type | professional volunteer unit ⓘ |
| usesLegionInsignia | true ⓘ |
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: REC Description of subject: REC is the common abbreviation for the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment, an elite armored unit of the French Foreign Legion.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.