MOD
E109651
MOD is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence, the government department responsible for implementing defense policy and overseeing the armed forces.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MOD canonical | 5 |
| MOD (ceremonial) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T931890 — 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.
Target entity: MOD Context triple: [United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, abbreviation, MOD]
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MET
MET is the standard abbreviation used for the National Hockey League's Metropolitan Division.
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MC
MC is the official abbreviation for NATO’s highest military authority, the NATO Military Committee.
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MC
MC is the postnominal abbreviation used to denote recipients of the Military Cross, a British military decoration awarded for gallantry during active operations against the enemy.
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.mo
.mo is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to the Macao Special Administrative Region of China for use on the internet.
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MDA
MDA (Monochrome Display Adapter) is IBM's original text-only video display standard for early IBM PCs, providing high-resolution monochrome output without graphics capabilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: MOD Target entity description: MOD is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence, the government department responsible for implementing defense policy and overseeing the armed forces.
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A.
MET
MET is the standard abbreviation used for the National Hockey League's Metropolitan Division.
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B.
MC
MC is the official abbreviation for NATO’s highest military authority, the NATO Military Committee.
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C.
MC
MC is the postnominal abbreviation used to denote recipients of the Military Cross, a British military decoration awarded for gallantry during active operations against the enemy.
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D.
.mo
.mo is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to the Macao Special Administrative Region of China for use on the internet.
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E.
MDA
MDA (Monochrome Display Adapter) is IBM's original text-only video display standard for early IBM PCs, providing high-resolution monochrome output without graphics capabilities.
- 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.
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.
Subject: MOD Description of subject: MOD is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence, the government department responsible for implementing defense policy and overseeing the armed forces.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.