Sidi Rezegh
E62537
Sidi Rezegh is a strategic airfield and battlefield site in eastern Libya that saw intense fighting between British Commonwealth and Axis forces during the North African Campaign of World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sidi Rezegh canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T352123 — 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: Sidi Rezegh Context triple: [Operation Crusader, notableEngagement, Sidi Rezegh]
-
A.
Kasr Al Ainy
Kasr Al Ainy is a historic medical campus and hospital complex in Cairo that serves as the main site of Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine.
-
B.
Shubra El Kheima
Shubra El Kheima is a major industrial and residential city in Egypt that forms part of the northern extent of the Greater Cairo metropolitan area.
-
C.
Marsa Matruh
Marsa Matruh is a coastal city in northwestern Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea, known as a popular summer resort and gateway to nearby beaches and historical sites.
-
D.
Helwan
Helwan is an industrial and residential city in southern Greater Cairo, Egypt, known for its factories, universities, and historic spa resorts along the Nile.
-
E.
Mansoura
Mansoura is a major city in Egypt’s Nile Delta, serving as an important regional center for agriculture, commerce, and transportation.
- 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: Sidi Rezegh Target entity description: Sidi Rezegh is a strategic airfield and battlefield site in eastern Libya that saw intense fighting between British Commonwealth and Axis forces during the North African Campaign of World War II.
-
A.
Kasr Al Ainy
Kasr Al Ainy is a historic medical campus and hospital complex in Cairo that serves as the main site of Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine.
-
B.
Shubra El Kheima
Shubra El Kheima is a major industrial and residential city in Egypt that forms part of the northern extent of the Greater Cairo metropolitan area.
-
C.
Marsa Matruh
Marsa Matruh is a coastal city in northwestern Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea, known as a popular summer resort and gateway to nearby beaches and historical sites.
-
D.
Helwan
Helwan is an industrial and residential city in southern Greater Cairo, Egypt, known for its factories, universities, and historic spa resorts along the Nile.
-
E.
Mansoura
Mansoura is a major city in Egypt’s Nile Delta, serving as an important regional center for agriculture, commerce, and transportation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airfield
ⓘ
battle ⓘ battlefield ⓘ geographic location ⓘ |
| associatedMilitaryUnit |
7th Armoured Division
ⓘ
2nd New Zealand Division ⓘ
surface form:
New Zealand Division
South African 5th Brigade ⓘ |
| commander |
Alan Cunningham
ⓘ
Erwin Rommel ⓘ |
| conflictType |
air-ground operations
ⓘ
armoured warfare ⓘ |
| country | Libya ⓘ |
| currentCountry |
Libya
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Libya
|
| endDate | 1941-12-01 ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryCemeteryNearby |
Commonwealth War Cemetery
ⓘ
surface form:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery
|
| involvedBelligerent |
Axis
ⓘ
surface form:
Axis forces
British Commonwealth forces ⓘ German Afrika Korps ⓘ Germany ⓘ Italian forces ⓘ Italy ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ Dominion of South Africa ⓘ
surface form:
Union of South Africa
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedIn | eastern Libya ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Africa ⓘ |
| location | Sidi Rezegh self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| near | Tobruk ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Battle of Sidi Rezegh ⓘ |
| notableFor |
intense fighting during Operation Crusader
ⓘ
role in attempts to relieve Tobruk garrison ⓘ |
| objective | relief of Tobruk ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cyrenaica
ⓘ
North African campaign ⓘ
surface form:
North African Campaign
Operation Crusader ⓘ |
| result |
Axis tactical victory
ⓘ
heavy casualties on both sides ⓘ |
| startDate | 1941-11-19 ⓘ |
| strategicImportance |
air support operations in North Africa
ⓘ
control of approaches to Tobruk ⓘ |
| theater | Western Desert ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSignificance | 1941 ⓘ |
| usedAs |
airfield
ⓘ
military base ⓘ |
| usedDuringConflict |
North African campaign
ⓘ
surface form:
North African Campaign
World War II ⓘ |
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: Sidi Rezegh Description of subject: Sidi Rezegh is a strategic airfield and battlefield site in eastern Libya that saw intense fighting between British Commonwealth and Axis forces during the North African Campaign of World War II.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Battle of Sidi Rezegh