Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance Weapon 2)
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German military equipment
World War II weapon
ballistic missile
guided missile
liquid-fueled rocket
long-range ballistic missile
Vergeltungswaffe 2, better known as the V-2 rocket, was a German World War II long-range ballistic missile and the world’s first long-range guided ballistic weapon used in combat.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vengeance Weapon 2 | 1 |
| Vergeltungswaffe 1 | 1 |
| Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance Weapon 2) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2911616 — 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: Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance Weapon 2) Context triple: [Aggregat 4, VDesignationMeaning, Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance Weapon 2)]
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A.
Weapon of Choice
Weapon of Choice is a hit song by British DJ and producer Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, famous for its funk-driven sound and its iconic music video featuring actor Christopher Walken dancing and flying through a hotel.
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B.
Vulcain 2
Vulcain 2 is a European liquid-fueled cryogenic rocket engine developed by ArianeGroup to power the main stage of Ariane 5 heavy-lift launch vehicles.
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C.
A Choice of Weapons
"A Choice of Weapons" is Gordon Parks’s influential autobiographical work in which he reflects on his life, art, and use of the camera as a tool for social change.
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D.
Revenge
Revenge was an English galleon of the Elizabethan navy, famed for its heroic last stand against a vastly superior Spanish fleet in 1591 under Sir Richard Grenville.
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E.
Revenge
Revenge is an American television drama series centered on a young woman who infiltrates an affluent Hamptons community to exact vengeance on those who destroyed her family.
- 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: Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance Weapon 2) Target entity description: Vergeltungswaffe 2, better known as the V-2 rocket, was a German World War II long-range ballistic missile and the world’s first long-range guided ballistic weapon used in combat.
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A.
Weapon of Choice
Weapon of Choice is a hit song by British DJ and producer Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, famous for its funk-driven sound and its iconic music video featuring actor Christopher Walken dancing and flying through a hotel.
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B.
Vulcain 2
Vulcain 2 is a European liquid-fueled cryogenic rocket engine developed by ArianeGroup to power the main stage of Ariane 5 heavy-lift launch vehicles.
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C.
A Choice of Weapons
"A Choice of Weapons" is Gordon Parks’s influential autobiographical work in which he reflects on his life, art, and use of the camera as a tool for social change.
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D.
Revenge
Revenge was an English galleon of the Elizabethan navy, famed for its heroic last stand against a vastly superior Spanish fleet in 1591 under Sir Richard Grenville.
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E.
Revenge
Revenge is an American television drama series centered on a young woman who infiltrates an affluent Hamptons community to exact vengeance on those who destroyed her family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance Weapon 2) Description of subject: Vergeltungswaffe 2, better known as the V-2 rocket, was a German World War II long-range ballistic missile and the world’s first long-range guided ballistic weapon used in combat.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance Weapon 2)
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Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance Weapon 2)
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Vergeltungswaffe 2
this entity surface form:
Vergeltungswaffe 1
Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance Weapon 2)
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nameMeaning
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Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance Weapon 2)
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Vergeltungswaffe 2
this entity surface form:
Vengeance Weapon 2