3rd Cavalry Regiment
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The 3rd Cavalry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army armored cavalry unit known for its reconnaissance and security missions in major conflicts from the 19th century through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 3rd Cavalry Regiment canonical | 2 |
| 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment | 1 |
| 3rd Cavalry Regiment (United States) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1376652 — 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: 3rd Cavalry Regiment Context triple: [Fort Cavazos, garrison, 3rd Cavalry Regiment]
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A.
7th Cavalry Regiment
The 7th Cavalry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army unit best known for its prominent roles in the Indian Wars, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and later in major conflicts such as the Vietnam War.
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B.
11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army armored unit best known for its reconnaissance and cavalry operations, including service in Vietnam and the Cold War, and for its current role as the primary opposing force at the National Training Center.
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C.
112th Cavalry Regiment
The 112th Cavalry Regiment is a United States Army cavalry unit that saw notable combat service in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
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D.
13th Light Dragoons
The 13th Light Dragoons was a British Army cavalry regiment best known for its role in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.
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E.
15th Light Dragoons
The 15th Light Dragoons was a British Army light cavalry regiment that served in the 18th and early 19th centuries, participating in various European and colonial campaigns.
- 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: 3rd Cavalry Regiment Target entity description: The 3rd Cavalry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army armored cavalry unit known for its reconnaissance and security missions in major conflicts from the 19th century through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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A.
7th Cavalry Regiment
The 7th Cavalry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army unit best known for its prominent roles in the Indian Wars, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and later in major conflicts such as the Vietnam War.
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B.
11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army armored unit best known for its reconnaissance and cavalry operations, including service in Vietnam and the Cold War, and for its current role as the primary opposing force at the National Training Center.
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C.
112th Cavalry Regiment
The 112th Cavalry Regiment is a United States Army cavalry unit that saw notable combat service in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
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D.
13th Light Dragoons
The 13th Light Dragoons was a British Army cavalry regiment best known for its role in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.
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E.
15th Light Dragoons
The 15th Light Dragoons was a British Army light cavalry regiment that served in the 18th and early 19th centuries, participating in various European and colonial campaigns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: 3rd Cavalry Regiment Description of subject: The 3rd Cavalry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army armored cavalry unit known for its reconnaissance and security missions in major conflicts from the 19th century through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
this entity surface form:
3rd Cavalry Regiment (United States)