Colonel (United States Marine Corps)
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Colonel (United States Marine Corps) is a senior field-grade officer rank in the U.S. Marine Corps, typically commanding regiments or serving in high-level staff positions.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colonel (United States Marine Corps) canonical | 3 |
| US Marine Corps colonel | 1 |
| colonel (United States Marine Corps) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12925150 — 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: Colonel (United States Marine Corps) Context triple: [Captain (United States Navy), equivalentRank, Colonel (United States Marine Corps)]
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A.
Lieutenant colonel (United States Marine Corps)
A United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel is a senior field-grade officer, typically commanding a battalion-sized unit or serving in key staff positions.
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B.
Colonel, United States Marine Corps Reserve
Colonel, United States Marine Corps Reserve is a senior field-grade officer rank held by part-time or reserve-duty Marine officers who support the U.S. Marine Corps while typically maintaining civilian careers.
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C.
Colonel (United States Army)
Colonel (United States Army) is a senior field-grade officer rank in the U.S. Army, typically commanding brigade-sized units or serving in high-level staff positions just below the general officer ranks.
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D.
Lieutenant colonel (United States Army)
Lieutenant colonel (United States Army) is a field-grade officer rank typically commanding battalion-sized units or serving in key staff positions, positioned above major and below colonel.
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Colonel (United States Air Force)
Colonel (United States Air Force) is a senior field-grade officer rank in the U.S. Air Force, typically responsible for commanding large units such as groups or wings and holding key leadership and staff positions.
- 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: Colonel (United States Marine Corps) Target entity description: Colonel (United States Marine Corps) is a senior field-grade officer rank in the U.S. Marine Corps, typically commanding regiments or serving in high-level staff positions.
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A.
Lieutenant colonel (United States Marine Corps)
A United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel is a senior field-grade officer, typically commanding a battalion-sized unit or serving in key staff positions.
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B.
Colonel, United States Marine Corps Reserve
Colonel, United States Marine Corps Reserve is a senior field-grade officer rank held by part-time or reserve-duty Marine officers who support the U.S. Marine Corps while typically maintaining civilian careers.
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C.
Colonel (United States Army)
Colonel (United States Army) is a senior field-grade officer rank in the U.S. Army, typically commanding brigade-sized units or serving in high-level staff positions just below the general officer ranks.
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D.
Lieutenant colonel (United States Army)
Lieutenant colonel (United States Army) is a field-grade officer rank typically commanding battalion-sized units or serving in key staff positions, positioned above major and below colonel.
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E.
Colonel (United States Air Force)
Colonel (United States Air Force) is a senior field-grade officer rank in the U.S. Air Force, typically responsible for commanding large units such as groups or wings and holding key leadership and staff positions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
field-grade officer rank
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military rank ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Col ⓘ |
| addressedAs | Colonel ⓘ |
| belongsToHierarchy |
United States Department of the Navy
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linked to:
Department of the Navy
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| category |
United States Marine Corps ranks
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military ranks of the United States ⓘ |
| commandLevel | regiment or group level ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| equivalentRank |
Captain (United States Navy)
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linked to:
United States Navy captain
Colonel (United States Air Force) ⓘ Colonel (United States Army) ⓘ |
| formalTitle | Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps ⓘ |
| grade | O-6 grade officer ⓘ |
| higherRank |
Brigadier General (United States Marine Corps)
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linked to:
Brigadier General
|
| insignia | silver eagle ⓘ |
| insigniaShape |
American bald eagle
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linked to:
Bald eagle
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| insigniaWornOn |
collar
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shoulder straps ⓘ |
| lowerRank | Lieutenant Colonel (United States Marine Corps) ⓘ |
| NATOrank | OF-5 ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Marine Corps rank structure ⓘ |
| payGrade | O-6 ⓘ |
| promotionAuthority | President of the United States with Senate confirmation ⓘ |
| rankClass | commissioned officer rank ⓘ |
| rankGroup | senior field-grade officer ⓘ |
| rankLevel | senior officer ⓘ |
| rankOrder | sixth commissioned officer grade in the U.S. Marine Corps ⓘ |
| responsibility |
major staff directorate leadership
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operational planning oversight ⓘ personnel and resource management at regimental or equivalent level ⓘ regimental-level command ⓘ |
| seniority |
junior to Brigadier General (United States Marine Corps)
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senior to Lieutenant Colonel (United States Marine Corps) ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| typicalAssignment |
command of major installation or base
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headquarters staff billet ⓘ senior staff position ⓘ |
| typicalBillet |
chief of staff at Marine Expeditionary Force level
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director of major staff section at headquarters Marine Corps ⓘ regimental commander ⓘ |
| typicalCommand |
Marine aircraft group
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linked to:
Marine Aircraft Group
Marine regiment ⓘ |
| typicalTimeInServiceForPromotion | approximately 21–23 years of commissioned service ⓘ |
| uniformRegulation | prescribed by Marine Corps uniform regulations ⓘ |
| usedBy |
United States Marine Corps officers
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linked to:
Marine Corps officers
|
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: Colonel (United States Marine Corps) Description of subject: Colonel (United States Marine Corps) is a senior field-grade officer rank in the U.S. Marine Corps, typically commanding regiments or serving in high-level staff positions.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Captain
linked to: Colonel (United States Marine Corps)
linked to: Colonel (United States Marine Corps)
Lieutenant colonel (United States Marine Corps)
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higherRank
→
Colonel (United States Marine Corps)
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