III Corps
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III Corps was a major field formation of the British Army that served in key campaigns during the First and Second World Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| III Corps canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8159492 — 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: III Corps Context triple: [III Corps (British Army), hasDesignation, III Corps]
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III Corps
III Corps is a major U.S. Army tactical formation that has historically commanded multiple divisions in large-scale operations, including under General Patton’s Third Army in World War II.
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III Corps
III Corps was a major field formation of the Ottoman Army that played a significant role in several key campaigns during World War I.
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III Corps
III Corps is a major field formation of the Indian Army responsible for operations in parts of India’s northeastern region.
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III Corps
III Corps was a major Union Army field formation in the American Civil War, noted for its controversial role and heavy losses at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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III Corps
III Corps was a major French military formation of the Napoleonic Wars, commanded at various times by marshals such as Davout and Ney and engaged in several key campaigns across Europe.
- 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: III Corps Target entity description: III Corps was a major field formation of the British Army that served in key campaigns during the First and Second World Wars.
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A.
III Corps
III Corps is a major U.S. Army tactical formation that has historically commanded multiple divisions in large-scale operations, including under General Patton’s Third Army in World War II.
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B.
III Corps
III Corps was a major field formation of the Ottoman Army that played a significant role in several key campaigns during World War I.
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C.
III Corps
III Corps is a major field formation of the Indian Army responsible for operations in parts of India’s northeastern region.
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D.
III Corps
III Corps was a major French military formation of the Napoleonic Wars, commanded at various times by marshals such as Davout and Ney and engaged in several key campaigns across Europe.
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E.
III Corps
III Corps was a major Union Army field formation in the American Civil War, noted for its controversial role and heavy losses at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | army corps ⓘ |
| allegiance | British Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battle |
Battle of Cambrai (1917)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Mons NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Passchendaele NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of the Somme NERFINISHED ⓘ First Battle of Ypres NERFINISHED ⓘ German Spring Offensive NERFINISHED ⓘ Hundred Days Offensive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Lieutenant-General William Pulteney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
ⓘ
surface form:
First World War
World War II ⓘ
surface form:
Second World War
|
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| disbandedAfter | Second World War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engagedAgainst |
German Army
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
German Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Imperial German Army NERFINISHED ⓘ Nazi Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedIn | August 1914 ⓘ |
| garrison | Aldershot Command NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| higherCommand |
British Expeditionary Force (World War I)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Home Forces (World War II) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| notableCommander |
Charles Monro
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Montagu C. Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ William Pulteney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
participation in early British Expeditionary Force operations
ⓘ
service in both World Wars ⓘ service on the Western Front in World War I ⓘ |
| partOf | British Expeditionary Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reformedIn | September 1939 ⓘ |
| role |
field corps headquarters
ⓘ
tactical command of divisions ⓘ |
| status | disbanded ⓘ |
| subordinateUnit |
28th Division
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2nd Division NERFINISHED ⓘ 4th Division NERFINISHED ⓘ 50th (Northumbrian) Division NERFINISHED ⓘ 6th Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatre | Western Front NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| type | corps-level formation ⓘ |
| worldWarIITheatre |
Home Forces
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: III Corps Description of subject: III Corps was a major field formation of the British Army that served in key campaigns during the First and Second World Wars.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.