Nashorn
E245730
Nashorn was a German World War II tank destroyer armed with a powerful 88 mm gun and built on a modified Panzer IV chassis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nashorn canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2212415 — 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: Nashorn Context triple: [Panzer IV, chassisUsedFor, Nashorn]
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A.
SpiderMonkey
SpiderMonkey is Mozilla's open-source JavaScript engine, written in C/C++ and used primarily in the Firefox web browser.
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B.
V8
V8 is a popular vegetable-based juice brand known for its blended vegetable and fruit beverages marketed as a nutritious drink option.
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C.
V8
V8 is Google’s high-performance open-source JavaScript engine, used in Chrome and Node.js to compile and execute JavaScript directly to native machine code.
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D.
JavaScriptCore
JavaScriptCore is Apple’s high-performance JavaScript engine used primarily in the Safari web browser and WebKit-based applications.
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E.
HotSpot JVM
HotSpot JVM is a high-performance Java Virtual Machine known for its advanced just-in-time compilation and adaptive optimization techniques, originally developed by Sun Microsystems.
- 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: Nashorn Target entity description: Nashorn was a German World War II tank destroyer armed with a powerful 88 mm gun and built on a modified Panzer IV chassis.
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A.
SpiderMonkey
SpiderMonkey is Mozilla's open-source JavaScript engine, written in C/C++ and used primarily in the Firefox web browser.
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B.
V8
V8 is a popular vegetable-based juice brand known for its blended vegetable and fruit beverages marketed as a nutritious drink option.
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C.
V8
V8 is Google’s high-performance open-source JavaScript engine, used in Chrome and Node.js to compile and execute JavaScript directly to native machine code.
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D.
JavaScriptCore
JavaScriptCore is Apple’s high-performance JavaScript engine used primarily in the Safari web browser and WebKit-based applications.
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E.
HotSpot JVM
HotSpot JVM is a high-performance Java Virtual Machine known for its advanced just-in-time compilation and adaptive optimization techniques, originally developed by Sun Microsystems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German tank destroyer
ⓘ
World War II vehicle ⓘ self-propelled anti-tank gun ⓘ |
| armourLayout | lightly armoured open-topped fighting compartment ⓘ |
| armourThickness | up to 30 mm ⓘ |
| caliber | 88 mm ⓘ |
| category | tank destroyer based on Panzer IV ⓘ |
| chassisBasedOn |
Panzer IV tanks
ⓘ
surface form:
Panzer IV chassis
|
| chassisType | modified Panzer IV chassis ⓘ |
| combatTheatre |
Eastern Front
ⓘ
Italian Front ⓘ Western Front ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| crew | 5 ⓘ |
| designedBy | Alkett ⓘ |
| designedForRole | long-range anti-tank combat ⓘ |
| driveLayout | rear-engine, rear-drive ⓘ |
| engine |
Maybach HL 120 TRM
ⓘ
surface form:
Maybach HL120 TRM
|
| engineType | V-12 petrol engine ⓘ |
| fightingCompartment | open-topped ⓘ |
| fuelType | gasoline ⓘ |
| gunMounting | fixed casemate mount ⓘ |
| gunTraverse | limited traverse ⓘ |
| height | about 2.65 m ⓘ |
| hullFrontArmour | 30 mm ⓘ |
| introduced | 1943 ⓘ |
| length | about 8.44 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Alkett
ⓘ
Deutsche Eisenwerke ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | rhinoceros in German ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
high kill potential at long range
ⓘ
powerful long-barrel 88 mm gun ⓘ |
| originalName |
Wasp
ⓘ
surface form:
Hornisse
|
| powerToWeightRatio | about 10 hp/tonne ⓘ |
| primaryArmament | 8.8 cm Pak 43/1 L/71 gun ⓘ |
| producedUnits | about 494 ⓘ |
| productionPeriod | 1943–1945 ⓘ |
| renamedFrom |
Wasp
ⓘ
surface form:
Hornisse
|
| renamedInYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| retired | post-World War II ⓘ |
| secondaryArmament | 7.92 mm MG 34 (often carried, not fixed) ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | 1943 ⓘ |
| suspension | leaf spring bogies ⓘ |
| topSpeed | about 40 km/h ⓘ |
| trackType | Panzer IV-type tracks ⓘ |
| usedBy |
German Army
ⓘ
Wehrmacht ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | World War II ⓘ |
| weight | about 24 tonnes ⓘ |
| width | about 2.95 m ⓘ |
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: Nashorn Description of subject: Nashorn was a German World War II tank destroyer armed with a powerful 88 mm gun and built on a modified Panzer IV chassis.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Panzer IV