2nd Marine Division
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The 2nd Marine Division is a major U.S. Marine Corps infantry division renowned for its pivotal amphibious assaults and ground combat operations in the Pacific Theater during World War II and subsequent conflicts.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 2nd Marine Division canonical | 31 |
| 2nd Marine Division (United States) | 2 |
| 2nd Marine Division Artillery | 1 |
| 2nd Marine Division, II MEF | 1 |
| 2nd Marines | 1 |
| U.S. 2nd Marine Division | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T259110 — 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: 2nd Marine Division Context triple: [Henderson Field, defendedBy, 2nd Marine Division]
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A.
3rd Marine Division
The 3rd Marine Division is a United States Marine Corps infantry division renowned for its pivotal combat role in the Pacific Theater during World War II and its continued service in subsequent conflicts.
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B.
5th Marine Division
The 5th Marine Division was a United States Marine Corps infantry division formed during World War II, best known for its pivotal combat role in the Pacific Theater, especially at Iwo Jima.
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C.
4th Marine Division
The 4th Marine Division is a United States Marine Corps infantry division renowned for its pivotal amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater during World War II, including the capture of Iwo Jima.
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D.
1st Marine Division (United States)
The 1st Marine Division (United States) is a storied infantry division of the U.S. Marine Corps renowned for its pivotal combat role in major conflicts from World War II through the present.
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E.
7th Marine Regiment
The 7th Marine Regiment is a storied infantry regiment of the United States Marine Corps known for its combat service in major conflicts including World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Global War on Terror.
- 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: 2nd Marine Division Target entity description: The 2nd Marine Division is a major U.S. Marine Corps infantry division renowned for its pivotal amphibious assaults and ground combat operations in the Pacific Theater during World War II and subsequent conflicts.
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A.
3rd Marine Division
The 3rd Marine Division is a United States Marine Corps infantry division renowned for its pivotal combat role in the Pacific Theater during World War II and its continued service in subsequent conflicts.
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B.
5th Marine Division
The 5th Marine Division was a United States Marine Corps infantry division formed during World War II, best known for its pivotal combat role in the Pacific Theater, especially at Iwo Jima.
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C.
4th Marine Division
The 4th Marine Division is a United States Marine Corps infantry division renowned for its pivotal amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater during World War II, including the capture of Iwo Jima.
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D.
1st Marine Division (United States)
The 1st Marine Division (United States) is a storied infantry division of the U.S. Marine Corps renowned for its pivotal combat role in major conflicts from World War II through the present.
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E.
7th Marine Regiment
The 7th Marine Regiment is a storied infantry regiment of the United States Marine Corps known for its combat service in major conflicts including World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Global War on Terror.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: 2nd Marine Division Description of subject: The 2nd Marine Division is a major U.S. Marine Corps infantry division renowned for its pivotal amphibious assaults and ground combat operations in the Pacific Theater during World War II and subsequent conflicts.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
2nd Marine Division (United States)
this entity surface form:
2nd Marines
this entity surface form:
U.S. 2nd Marine Division
this entity surface form:
2nd Marine Division (United States)
this entity surface form:
2nd Marine Division Artillery
this entity surface form:
2nd Marine Division, II MEF
subject surface form:
Julian C. Smith
subject surface form:
Julian C. Smith