Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal
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The Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal is a high-level United States military decoration awarded for exceptionally meritorious service to the government in a duty of great responsibility within the U.S. Coast Guard.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal canonical | 3 |
| Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal with Operational Distinguishing Device | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T706373 — 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: Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal Context triple: [Navy Distinguished Service Medal, sameLevelAs, Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal]
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A.
Navy Distinguished Service Medal
The Navy Distinguished Service Medal is a high-level United States Navy decoration awarded for exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility, often to senior military leaders.
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B.
Defense Distinguished Service Medal
The Defense Distinguished Service Medal is the highest non-combat military decoration awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense for exceptionally meritorious service in a position of great responsibility.
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C.
Navy and Marine Corps Medal
The Navy and Marine Corps Medal is a United States military decoration awarded to members of the Navy and Marine Corps for acts of heroism not involving actual conflict with an enemy.
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D.
Navy Cross
The Navy Cross is the United States Navy and Marine Corps' second-highest military decoration awarded for extraordinary heroism in combat.
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E.
Legion of Merit
The Legion of Merit is a high-level United States military decoration awarded for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements.
- 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: Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal Target entity description: The Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal is a high-level United States military decoration awarded for exceptionally meritorious service to the government in a duty of great responsibility within the U.S. Coast Guard.
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A.
Navy Distinguished Service Medal
The Navy Distinguished Service Medal is a high-level United States Navy decoration awarded for exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility, often to senior military leaders.
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B.
Defense Distinguished Service Medal
The Defense Distinguished Service Medal is the highest non-combat military decoration awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense for exceptionally meritorious service in a position of great responsibility.
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C.
Navy and Marine Corps Medal
The Navy and Marine Corps Medal is a United States military decoration awarded to members of the Navy and Marine Corps for acts of heroism not involving actual conflict with an enemy.
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D.
Navy Cross
The Navy Cross is the United States Navy and Marine Corps' second-highest military decoration awarded for extraordinary heroism in combat.
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E.
Legion of Merit
The Legion of Merit is a high-level United States military decoration awarded for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States military award
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military decoration ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CGDSM ⓘ |
| awardedForPeacetimeService | true ⓘ |
| awardedForWartimeService | true ⓘ |
| awardFor | exceptionally meritorious service to the government in a duty of great responsibility ⓘ |
| awardingBody | United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| canBeAwardedPosthumously | true ⓘ |
| classification |
Distinguished Service Medal (United States)
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surface form:
distinguished service medal
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| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| eligibility |
members of other U.S. armed services serving with the Coast Guard
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members of the United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| hasMedalComponent |
full-size medal
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miniature medal ⓘ service ribbon ⓘ |
| higherThan |
Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal with Operational Distinguishing Device
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| isDecoratedOnUniform | true ⓘ |
| isNonCombatDecoration | true ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
United States awards and decorations
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surface form:
United States military awards and decorations system
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| isPersonalDecoration | true ⓘ |
| isValorDecoration | false ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| lowerThan | Coast Guard Medal ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| presentedBy | United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| relatedAward |
Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
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Defense Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ Army Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ
surface form:
Distinguished Service Medal (Army)
Navy Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ |
| requiresPresidentialApproval | false ⓘ |
| ribbonColor | predominantly blue and white ⓘ |
| serviceBranchAbbreviation |
United States Coast Guard
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surface form:
USCG
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| serviceBranchRole |
environmental protection
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homeland security missions ⓘ maritime law enforcement ⓘ maritime safety and security ⓘ search and rescue operations ⓘ |
| serviceBranchSpecific | yes ⓘ |
| status | currently awarded ⓘ |
| typicalRecipients |
flag officers of the United States Coast Guard
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senior officers of the United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
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: Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal Description of subject: The Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal is a high-level United States military decoration awarded for exceptionally meritorious service to the government in a duty of great responsibility within the U.S. Coast Guard.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal
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higherThan
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Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal with Operational Distinguishing Device
Distinguished Service Medal (United States)
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serviceSpecificVersions
→
Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal
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