17th Anti-Tank Battery
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The 17th Anti-Tank Battery was an Australian Army artillery unit specializing in anti-tank warfare and serving as part of the World War II garrison known as Lark Force.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 17th Anti-Tank Battery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7512329 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 17th Anti-Tank Battery Context triple: [Lark Force, componentUnit, 17th Anti-Tank Battery]
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A.
1st Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery
The 1st Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery was a British airborne artillery unit of the Second World War, equipped with anti-tank guns to support glider-borne infantry operations.
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B.
179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army artillery unit that served as a field regiment providing fire support within the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division during the Second World War.
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C.
21st Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 21st Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army unit of World War II specializing in anti-tank warfare, serving in armoured formations such as the Guards Armoured Division.
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D.
112th (Wessex) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 112th (Wessex) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army Territorial Army artillery unit that served as a divisional field regiment during the Second World War.
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E.
153rd (Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 153rd (Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army artillery unit formed from the Leicestershire Yeomanry that served with distinction during the Second World War.
- 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: 17th Anti-Tank Battery Target entity description: The 17th Anti-Tank Battery was an Australian Army artillery unit specializing in anti-tank warfare and serving as part of the World War II garrison known as Lark Force.
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A.
1st Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery
The 1st Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery was a British airborne artillery unit of the Second World War, equipped with anti-tank guns to support glider-borne infantry operations.
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B.
179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army artillery unit that served as a field regiment providing fire support within the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division during the Second World War.
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C.
21st Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 21st Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army unit of World War II specializing in anti-tank warfare, serving in armoured formations such as the Guards Armoured Division.
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D.
112th (Wessex) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 112th (Wessex) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army Territorial Army artillery unit that served as a divisional field regiment during the Second World War.
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E.
153rd (Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 153rd (Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army artillery unit formed from the Leicestershire Yeomanry that served with distinction during the Second World War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian Army artillery unit
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anti-tank unit ⓘ |
| allegiance | Allied powers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Australian 8th Division
NERFINISHED
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Rabaul, New Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | Australian Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War II
ⓘ
surface form:
Second World War
|
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| duty |
coastal defence
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defence against armoured vehicles ⓘ |
| equipmentType | anti-tank guns ⓘ |
| era | World War II ⓘ |
| garrisonDuty | Rabaul garrison ⓘ |
| militaryFormation | battery ⓘ |
| partOf | Lark Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | artillery support ⓘ |
| service | Australian Army during World War II ⓘ |
| specialization | anti-tank warfare ⓘ |
| theatre |
New Guinea campaign
NERFINISHED
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Pacific War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| type | field artillery battery ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: 17th Anti-Tank Battery Description of subject: The 17th Anti-Tank Battery was an Australian Army artillery unit specializing in anti-tank warfare and serving as part of the World War II garrison known as Lark Force.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.