Army
E20835
The Army is the land-based military force of a nation, responsible for ground warfare, territorial defense, and supporting national security objectives.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Army canonical | 115 |
| Active Duty Army | 1 |
| Army Team | 1 |
| Armée de terre | 1 |
| U.S. Army (as war correspondent) | 1 |
| U.S. Army (fictional depiction) | 1 |
| United States Army (as war artist) | 1 |
| တပ်မတော် | 1 |
| 陸軍 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T149595 — 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: Army Context triple: [Household Division, branch, Army]
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A.
Home Army
The Home Army was the primary Polish resistance movement in World War II, loyal to the Polish government-in-exile and known for its large-scale underground operations against Nazi occupation.
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B.
Army Corps
Army Corps is a major operational-level military formation typically composed of multiple divisions and supporting units, responsible for coordinating large-scale ground combat operations.
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C.
United States Army
The United States Army is the primary land warfare service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, responsible for ground-based military operations and national defense.
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D.
Army Staff
The Army Staff is the senior military leadership body of an army, responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating its operations, organization, and readiness.
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E.
Bundeswehr
The Bundeswehr is the unified armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany, established in 1955 as a modern, democratically controlled military.
- 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: Army Target entity description: The Army is the land-based military force of a nation, responsible for ground warfare, territorial defense, and supporting national security objectives.
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A.
Home Army
The Home Army was the primary Polish resistance movement in World War II, loyal to the Polish government-in-exile and known for its large-scale underground operations against Nazi occupation.
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B.
Army Corps
Army Corps is a major operational-level military formation typically composed of multiple divisions and supporting units, responsible for coordinating large-scale ground combat operations.
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C.
United States Army
The United States Army is the primary land warfare service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, responsible for ground-based military operations and national defense.
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D.
Army Staff
The Army Staff is the senior military leadership body of an army, responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating its operations, organization, and readiness.
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E.
Bundeswehr
The Bundeswehr is the unified armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany, established in 1955 as a modern, democratically controlled military.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
land warfare force
ⓘ
military branch ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
demobilization
ⓘ
deployment ⓘ mobilization ⓘ recruitment ⓘ training ⓘ |
| hasCommandStructure | hierarchical organization ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
armored units
ⓘ
artillery units ⓘ engineer units ⓘ infantry units ⓘ logistics units ⓘ medical units ⓘ signal units ⓘ special operations forces ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
counterinsurgency operations
ⓘ
defense against external threats ⓘ deterrence ⓘ disaster relief support ⓘ participation in international operations ⓘ peacekeeping missions ⓘ training of reserve forces ⓘ |
| hasPersonnelType |
enlisted soldiers
ⓘ
non-commissioned officers ⓘ officers ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryDomain | land warfare ⓘ |
| hasRole |
ground combat operations
ⓘ
protection of national sovereignty ⓘ support of national security objectives ⓘ support to civil authorities in emergencies ⓘ territorial defense ⓘ |
| isPartOf | armed forces ⓘ |
| isSubordinateTo | national government ⓘ |
| mayOperateIn |
arctic terrain
ⓘ
desert terrain ⓘ jungle terrain ⓘ mountain terrain ⓘ urban terrain ⓘ |
| requires |
discipline
ⓘ
military training ⓘ |
| uses |
armored fighting vehicles
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artillery systems ⓘ logistics support systems ⓘ military communications systems ⓘ small arms ⓘ tanks ⓘ |
| usesDomain | land ⓘ |
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: Army Description of subject: The Army is the land-based military force of a nation, responsible for ground warfare, territorial defense, and supporting national security objectives.
Referenced by (123)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chief of Staff of the Army (Portugal)
subject surface form:
Tatmadaw
this entity surface form:
တပ်မတော်
this entity surface form:
United States Army (as war artist)