Ryder rental truck
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The Ryder rental truck was the yellow moving vehicle packed with explosives and detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ryder rental truck canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7424809 — 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: Ryder rental truck Context triple: [Oklahoma City bombing, vehicleUsed, Ryder rental truck]
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A.
Truk
Truk, now known as Chuuk, is a Micronesian island group in the central Pacific Ocean renowned for its sheltered lagoon and numerous World War II shipwrecks popular with divers.
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B.
UD Trucks
UD Trucks is a Japanese commercial vehicle manufacturer known for producing medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses for global markets.
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C.
Cash Truck
Cash Truck is a French action-thriller film that follows an armored truck security guard entangled in a violent heist plot.
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D.
Rockwell trucks
Rockwell trucks are a type of railcar bogie assembly used on New York City’s R46 subway cars, designed to support and guide the cars along the tracks.
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E.
Mason trucks
Mason trucks were a line of commercial vehicles produced in the 1920s by Durant Motors, an American automobile manufacturer founded by former General Motors head William C. Durant.
- 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: Ryder rental truck Target entity description: The Ryder rental truck was the yellow moving vehicle packed with explosives and detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
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A.
Truk
Truk, now known as Chuuk, is a Micronesian island group in the central Pacific Ocean renowned for its sheltered lagoon and numerous World War II shipwrecks popular with divers.
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B.
UD Trucks
UD Trucks is a Japanese commercial vehicle manufacturer known for producing medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses for global markets.
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C.
Cash Truck
Cash Truck is a French action-thriller film that follows an armored truck security guard entangled in a violent heist plot.
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D.
Rockwell trucks
Rockwell trucks are a type of railcar bogie assembly used on New York City’s R46 subway cars, designed to support and guide the cars along the tracks.
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E.
Mason trucks
Mason trucks were a line of commercial vehicles produced in the 1920s by Durant Motors, an American automobile manufacturer founded by former General Motors head William C. Durant.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
truck
ⓘ
vehicle used in terrorist attack ⓘ |
| accomplice | Terry Nichols NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attackCasualtiesApproximate | 168 deaths ⓘ |
| attackInjuriesApproximate | hundreds injured ⓘ |
| attackType | truck bomb ⓘ |
| cityOfDetonation | Oklahoma City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| color | yellow ⓘ |
| countryOfDetonation | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| detonatedOutside | Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| detonationDate | 1995-04-19 ⓘ |
| explosiveComponents |
ammonium nitrate fertilizer
ⓘ
fuel oil ⓘ |
| explosiveComponents | other additives ⓘ |
| explosiveType | ANFO ⓘ |
| function | moving truck ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | one of the deadliest acts of domestic terrorism in U.S. history ⓘ |
| loadedWith | explosives ⓘ |
| methodOfAttack | vehicle-borne improvised explosive device ⓘ |
| notableFor | central role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing ⓘ |
| parkedInFrontOf | Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| perpetrator | Timothy McVeigh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rentalCompany | Ryder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfDetonation | Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetedBuilding | Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAs | improvised explosive device ⓘ |
| usedInEvent | Oklahoma City bombing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfEvent | 1995 ⓘ |
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: Ryder rental truck Description of subject: The Ryder rental truck was the yellow moving vehicle packed with explosives and detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.