506th Infantry Regiment
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The 506th Infantry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army airborne infantry unit best known for its World War II service with the 101st Airborne Division, including the actions of its famed "Easy Company" depicted in Band of Brothers.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment | 11 |
| 506th Infantry Regiment canonical | 7 |
| 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1569168 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: 506th Infantry Regiment Context triple: [4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, notableInfantryRegimentLineage, 506th Infantry Regiment]
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505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
The 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment is a famed U.S. Army airborne infantry unit of the 82nd Airborne Division that distinguished itself in major World War II operations, including combat jumps in Sicily, Italy, Normandy, and the Netherlands.
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U.S. 35th Infantry Division
The U.S. 35th Infantry Division is a National Guard infantry formation of the United States Army that saw significant combat in Europe during World War II, including in the Normandy campaign.
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81st Infantry Division
The 81st Infantry Division was a U.S. Army formation in World War II, known for its combat operations in the Pacific Theater, including supporting the capture of Peleliu.
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82nd Infantry Division
The 82nd Infantry Division is a famed U.S. Army formation best known for its World War II service as the 82nd Airborne Division, a pioneering and highly decorated airborne unit.
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U.S. 23rd Infantry Regiment
The U.S. 23rd Infantry Regiment is a historic United States Army infantry unit renowned for its combat service in major conflicts including World War II and the Korean War.
- 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: 506th Infantry Regiment Target entity description: The 506th Infantry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army airborne infantry unit best known for its World War II service with the 101st Airborne Division, including the actions of its famed "Easy Company" depicted in Band of Brothers.
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A.
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
The 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment is a famed U.S. Army airborne infantry unit of the 82nd Airborne Division that distinguished itself in major World War II operations, including combat jumps in Sicily, Italy, Normandy, and the Netherlands.
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B.
U.S. 35th Infantry Division
The U.S. 35th Infantry Division is a National Guard infantry formation of the United States Army that saw significant combat in Europe during World War II, including in the Normandy campaign.
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C.
81st Infantry Division
The 81st Infantry Division was a U.S. Army formation in World War II, known for its combat operations in the Pacific Theater, including supporting the capture of Peleliu.
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D.
82nd Infantry Division
The 82nd Infantry Division is a famed U.S. Army formation best known for its World War II service as the 82nd Airborne Division, a pioneering and highly decorated airborne unit.
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U.S. 23rd Infantry Regiment
The U.S. 23rd Infantry Regiment is a historic United States Army infantry unit renowned for its combat service in major conflicts including World War II and the Korean War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: 506th Infantry Regiment Description of subject: The 506th Infantry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army airborne infantry unit best known for its World War II service with the 101st Airborne Division, including the actions of its famed "Easy Company" depicted in Band of Brothers.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division
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506th Infantry Regiment
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Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
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506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
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Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
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parentUnit
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506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division
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Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton
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