123rd Aviation Battalion
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The 123rd Aviation Battalion was a U.S. Army aviation unit that gained historical significance as the unit of helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson Jr., who intervened to stop the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 123rd Aviation Battalion canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7656588 — 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: 123rd Aviation Battalion Context triple: [Hugh Thompson Jr., unit, 123rd Aviation Battalion]
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A.
207th Aviation Regiment
The 207th Aviation Regiment is an Alaska Army National Guard aviation unit that provides helicopter and fixed-wing support for military and state missions, including transport, search and rescue, and emergency response.
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96th Aviation Support Battalion
The 96th Aviation Support Battalion is a U.S. Army unit that provides maintenance, logistics, and support services to aviation elements within the 101st Airborne Division’s combat aviation brigade.
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C.
1st Battalion, 229th Aviation Regiment
The 1st Battalion, 229th Aviation Regiment is a U.S. Army attack helicopter battalion known for operating AH-64 Apache helicopters in support of combat aviation missions.
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D.
46th Aviation Support Battalion
The 46th Aviation Support Battalion is a U.S. Army unit that provides maintenance, logistics, and support services to aviation forces within the 16th Combat Aviation Brigade.
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E.
1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment
The 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment is an Army aviation unit of the Georgia Army National Guard that provides helicopter and aviation support for state and federal missions.
- 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: 123rd Aviation Battalion Target entity description: The 123rd Aviation Battalion was a U.S. Army aviation unit that gained historical significance as the unit of helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson Jr., who intervened to stop the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War.
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A.
207th Aviation Regiment
The 207th Aviation Regiment is an Alaska Army National Guard aviation unit that provides helicopter and fixed-wing support for military and state missions, including transport, search and rescue, and emergency response.
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B.
96th Aviation Support Battalion
The 96th Aviation Support Battalion is a U.S. Army unit that provides maintenance, logistics, and support services to aviation elements within the 101st Airborne Division’s combat aviation brigade.
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C.
1st Battalion, 229th Aviation Regiment
The 1st Battalion, 229th Aviation Regiment is a U.S. Army attack helicopter battalion known for operating AH-64 Apache helicopters in support of combat aviation missions.
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D.
46th Aviation Support Battalion
The 46th Aviation Support Battalion is a U.S. Army unit that provides maintenance, logistics, and support services to aviation forces within the 16th Combat Aviation Brigade.
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E.
1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment
The 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment is an Army aviation unit of the Georgia Army National Guard that provides helicopter and aviation support for state and federal missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Army aviation battalion
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military unit ⓘ |
| activeDuring | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedPersonRole | Hugh Thompson Jr. served as a helicopter pilot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | My Lai Massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | United States Army ⓘ |
| conflict | Vietnam War ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | Cold War ⓘ |
| hasSubunitType |
headquarters company
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helicopter company ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | unit of Hugh Thompson Jr. during My Lai intervention NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locationOfOperations | South Vietnam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranchSpecialty | rotary-wing aviation ⓘ |
| militaryFunction | support to ground combat units ⓘ |
| notableEvent | intervention in the My Lai Massacre ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ethical intervention during combat operations
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protection of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai ⓘ |
| notableMember | Hugh Thompson Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. Army Aviation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
army aviation support
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helicopter operations ⓘ |
| service | United States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceBranchFunction |
aerial reconnaissance
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close air support ⓘ medical evacuation ⓘ troop transport ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations | Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOfEquipment | military helicopters ⓘ |
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: 123rd Aviation Battalion Description of subject: The 123rd Aviation Battalion was a U.S. Army aviation unit that gained historical significance as the unit of helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson Jr., who intervened to stop the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.