Distinguished Flying Cross
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The Distinguished Flying Cross is a United States military decoration awarded for heroism or extraordinary achievement during aerial flight.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Distinguished Flying Cross canonical | 97 |
| Distinguished Flying Cross (United States) | 12 |
| Navy Distinguished Flying Cross | 4 |
| Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross | 2 |
| United States Distinguished Flying Cross | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T25672 — 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: Distinguished Flying Cross Context triple: [Charles Lindbergh, awardReceived, Distinguished Flying Cross]
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A.
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.
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Army Distinguished Service Medal
The Army 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.
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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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Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor is the United States’ highest and most prestigious military decoration, awarded for acts of valor above and beyond the call of duty.
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Medal for Merit
The Medal for Merit was one of the highest civilian decorations of the United States, awarded for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services during World War II and the early postwar period.
- 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: Distinguished Flying Cross Target entity description: The Distinguished Flying Cross is a United States military decoration awarded for heroism or extraordinary achievement during aerial flight.
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A.
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.
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B.
Army Distinguished Service Medal
The Army 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.
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C.
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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D.
Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor is the United States’ highest and most prestigious military decoration, awarded for acts of valor above and beyond the call of duty.
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E.
Medal for Merit
The Medal for Merit was one of the highest civilian decorations of the United States, awarded for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services during World War II and the early postwar period.
- 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: Distinguished Flying Cross Description of subject: The Distinguished Flying Cross is a United States military decoration awarded for heroism or extraordinary achievement during aerial flight.
Referenced by (116)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Air Marshal Sir John Grandy
subject linked to:
Air Marshal Sir Denis Smallwood
subject linked to:
Admiral Wesley L. McDonald
subject linked to:
Charles Cabell
linked to: Distinguished Flying Cross
linked to: Distinguished Flying Cross
subject linked to:
Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter
subject linked to:
John McCain III (attended, transferred)
linked to: Distinguished Flying Cross
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subject linked to:
General Kevin P. Chilton
subject linked to:
navigator: Theodore Van Kirk
subject linked to:
bombardier: Thomas Ferebee
linked to: Distinguished Flying Cross
linked to: Distinguished Flying Cross
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subject linked to:
aircraft commander Charles W. Sweeney
subject linked to:
Captain Frederick C. Bock