100th Infantry Battalion
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The 100th Infantry Battalion was a highly decorated U.S. Army unit in World War II composed primarily of Japanese American soldiers from Hawaii, renowned for its combat record in the European Theater.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 100th Infantry Battalion canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T796486 — 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: 100th Infantry Battalion Context triple: [Japanese Americans, militaryUnit, 100th Infantry Battalion]
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A.
442nd Regimental Combat Team
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was a highly decorated U.S. Army unit in World War II composed almost entirely of second-generation Japanese American soldiers, renowned for its extraordinary bravery and combat record in Europe.
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B.
Japanese 5th Division
The Japanese 5th Division was an Imperial Japanese Army infantry division that saw extensive combat in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, noted for its role in major early campaigns in China and Southeast Asia.
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Japanese 3rd Division
The Japanese 3rd Division was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army that played a major combat role in the Second Sino-Japanese War and other campaigns during the early 20th century.
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D.
Japanese 10th Division
The Japanese 10th Division was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army that saw major combat in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
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E.
Japanese 11th Division
The Japanese 11th Division was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army that played a major combat role in the Second Sino-Japanese War and other early 20th-century conflicts in East Asia.
- 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: 100th Infantry Battalion Target entity description: The 100th Infantry Battalion was a highly decorated U.S. Army unit in World War II composed primarily of Japanese American soldiers from Hawaii, renowned for its combat record in the European Theater.
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A.
442nd Regimental Combat Team
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was a highly decorated U.S. Army unit in World War II composed almost entirely of second-generation Japanese American soldiers, renowned for its extraordinary bravery and combat record in Europe.
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B.
Japanese 5th Division
The Japanese 5th Division was an Imperial Japanese Army infantry division that saw extensive combat in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, noted for its role in major early campaigns in China and Southeast Asia.
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C.
Japanese 3rd Division
The Japanese 3rd Division was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army that played a major combat role in the Second Sino-Japanese War and other campaigns during the early 20th century.
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D.
Japanese 10th Division
The Japanese 10th Division was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army that saw major combat in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
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E.
Japanese 11th Division
The Japanese 11th Division was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army that played a major combat role in the Second Sino-Japanese War and other early 20th-century conflicts in East Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: 100th Infantry Battalion Description of subject: The 100th Infantry Battalion was a highly decorated U.S. Army unit in World War II composed primarily of Japanese American soldiers from Hawaii, renowned for its combat record in the European Theater.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.