LAV-25 family
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The LAV-25 family is a series of eight-wheeled, amphibious armored reconnaissance and support vehicles used primarily by the United States Marine Corps and other military forces.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| LAV-25 | 5 |
| LAV-25 family canonical | 2 |
| LAV family of armored vehicles | 1 |
| LAV-25 chassis | 1 |
| LAV-M mortar carrier variant | 1 |
| LAV‑25 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3752354 — 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: LAV-25 family Context triple: [LAV-M, partOf, LAV-25 family]
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A.
LAV-C2
The LAV-C2 is a command and control variant of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Light Armored Vehicle designed to provide mobile battlefield communications and coordination capabilities.
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B.
LAV-AT
The LAV-AT is a U.S. Marine Corps light armored vehicle variant equipped with anti-tank guided missile systems designed to engage and destroy enemy armored threats.
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C.
LAV-R
The LAV-R is a U.S. Marine Corps light armored vehicle variant configured as a recovery and maintenance platform to support other light armored vehicles in the field.
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D.
LAV-AD
The LAV-AD is an air-defense variant of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Light Armored Vehicle family, equipped with anti-aircraft guns and missile systems to engage low-flying aircraft and helicopters.
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E.
LAV-L
The LAV-L is a light armored vehicle variant used by the U.S. Marine Corps primarily as a logistics and support platform within light armored reconnaissance units.
- 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: LAV-25 family Target entity description: The LAV-25 family is a series of eight-wheeled, amphibious armored reconnaissance and support vehicles used primarily by the United States Marine Corps and other military forces.
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A.
LAV-C2
The LAV-C2 is a command and control variant of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Light Armored Vehicle designed to provide mobile battlefield communications and coordination capabilities.
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B.
LAV-AT
The LAV-AT is a U.S. Marine Corps light armored vehicle variant equipped with anti-tank guided missile systems designed to engage and destroy enemy armored threats.
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C.
LAV-R
The LAV-R is a U.S. Marine Corps light armored vehicle variant configured as a recovery and maintenance platform to support other light armored vehicles in the field.
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D.
LAV-AD
The LAV-AD is an air-defense variant of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Light Armored Vehicle family, equipped with anti-aircraft guns and missile systems to engage low-flying aircraft and helicopters.
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E.
LAV-L
The LAV-L is a light armored vehicle variant used by the U.S. Marine Corps primarily as a logistics and support platform within light armored reconnaissance units.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
armored fighting vehicle family
ⓘ
military vehicle family ⓘ wheeled armored vehicle family ⓘ |
| armorType | welded steel armor ⓘ |
| basedOn | MOWAG Piranha I ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| crew | 3 ⓘ |
| designedFor | United States Marine Corps Light Armored Vehicle program ⓘ |
| driveOnLand | wheeled ⓘ |
| driveType | all-wheel drive ⓘ |
| engineType | diesel engine ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1983 ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
LAV-25 family
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
LAV-25
LAV-AD ⓘ LAV-AG ⓘ LAV-AT ⓘ LAV-C2 ⓘ LAV-L ⓘ LAV-L ⓘ
surface form:
LAV-LOG
LAV-M ⓘ LAV-MEWSS ⓘ LAV-R ⓘ |
| isAmphibious | true ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
General Dynamics
ⓘ
surface form:
General Dynamics Land Systems
General Motors Diesel Division (Canada) ⓘ
surface form:
General Motors Diesel Division
|
| notableFeature |
air-transportable by C-130 Hercules
ⓘ
amphibious without preparation ⓘ high tactical mobility ⓘ |
| operatorType | military forces ⓘ |
| passengerCapacity | 6 ⓘ |
| primaryRole | armored reconnaissance ⓘ |
| primaryUser | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| propulsionInWater | water jets ⓘ |
| protectionLevel |
artillery shell splinters
ⓘ
small arms fire ⓘ |
| secondaryRole |
air defense
ⓘ
anti-tank warfare ⓘ command and control ⓘ infantry support ⓘ |
| suspension | independent coil spring ⓘ |
| typicalEngineModel |
Detroit Diesel 6V53
ⓘ
surface form:
Detroit Diesel 6V53T
|
| usedBy |
Canada
ⓘ
Chile ⓘ Colombia ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ Saudi Arabia ⓘ United States Army ⓘ United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| usedInConflict |
Gulf War
ⓘ
Iraq War ⓘ Operation Just Cause ⓘ Somali Civil War ⓘ
surface form:
Somali Civil War (UNOSOM II)
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) ⓘ |
| wheelConfiguration | 8×8 ⓘ |
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: LAV-25 family Description of subject: The LAV-25 family is a series of eight-wheeled, amphibious armored reconnaissance and support vehicles used primarily by the United States Marine Corps and other military forces.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
LAV-25
this entity surface form:
LAV-M mortar carrier variant
this entity surface form:
LAV‑25
subject surface form:
ASLAV
this entity surface form:
LAV-25
subject surface form:
ASLAV
this entity surface form:
LAV family of armored vehicles
this entity surface form:
LAV-25