The Old Breed

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The Old Breed is the storied 1st Marine Division of the United States Marine Corps, renowned for its fierce combat record and enduring traditions.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
The Old Breed canonical 3
With the Old Breed 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf United States Marine Corps division
infantry division
military unit
allegiance United States of America
branch United States Marine Corps
conflict Gulf War
Iraq War
Korean War
Vietnam War
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
surface form: War in Afghanistan

World War II
country United States of America
countryOfGarrison United States of America
decoratedFor valor in combat
formedIn 1941
garrisonLocation California, United States
surface form: California

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
hasAbbreviation 1st Marine Division (United States)
surface form: 1st MarDiv
hasMotto First to Fight
No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy
hasOfficialName 1st Marine Division (United States)
surface form: 1st Marine Division
hasSubunit 11th Marine Regiment
1st Marine Regiment
5th Marine Regiment
7th Marine Regiment
militaryBranchType United States Marine Corps
surface form: Marine Corps
nickname Blue Diamond
The Old Breed self-link
notableBattle 2003 invasion of Iraq
Battle of Cape Gloucester
Battle of Guadalcanal
Battle of Hue
Inchon Landing
surface form: Battle of Inchon

Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Peleliu
Battle of Chosin Reservoir
surface form: Chosin Reservoir campaign

Gulf War
surface form: Operation Desert Storm
partOf United States Marine Corps
reputation enduring traditions
fierce combat record
role amphibious assault
expeditionary warfare
ground combat operations
service United States Armed Forces
size division
symbol blue diamond insignia
unitType ground combat element

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: The Old Breed
Description of subject: The Old Breed is the storied 1st Marine Division of the United States Marine Corps, renowned for its fierce combat record and enduring traditions.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Blue Diamond nickname The Old Breed
subject surface form: 1st Marine Division
The Old Breed nickname The Old Breed self-link
The Pacific basedOn The Old Breed
this entity surface form: With the Old Breed
China Marine follows The Old Breed
this entity surface form: With the Old Breed