II Corps (British Army)
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II Corps (British Army) was a major field formation of the British Army that played a key role in early World War II operations, including the deployment of forces to France and the Dunkirk evacuation.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| II Corps (British Army) canonical | 2 |
| II Corps (BEF) | 1 |
| II Corps of the British Expeditionary Force | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1657257 — 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: II Corps (British Army) Context triple: [British Expeditionary Force (World War II), component, II Corps (British Army)]
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I Corps (British Army)
I Corps (British Army) was a major British field corps-level formation that played key roles in both World Wars, including operations in France in 1940 and the Normandy campaign in 1944.
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3rd British Infantry Division
The 3rd British Infantry Division was a key British Army formation in World War II, renowned for spearheading the D-Day landings in Normandy and sustaining continuous combat operations in Northwest Europe.
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British XIII Corps
The British XIII Corps was a major field formation of the British Army that saw extensive combat service in both World War I and World War II, particularly in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres.
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British XXX Corps
British XXX Corps was a major British Army formation in World War II, best known for its armoured spearhead role in the Allied advance during the Normandy campaign and the failed Operation Market Garden.
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1st (United Kingdom) Division
The 1st (United Kingdom) Division is a British Army formation that serves as a key deployable headquarters for adaptable and light forces in modern operations.
- 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: II Corps (British Army) Target entity description: II Corps (British Army) was a major field formation of the British Army that played a key role in early World War II operations, including the deployment of forces to France and the Dunkirk evacuation.
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A.
I Corps (British Army)
I Corps (British Army) was a major British field corps-level formation that played key roles in both World Wars, including operations in France in 1940 and the Normandy campaign in 1944.
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B.
3rd British Infantry Division
The 3rd British Infantry Division was a key British Army formation in World War II, renowned for spearheading the D-Day landings in Normandy and sustaining continuous combat operations in Northwest Europe.
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C.
British XIII Corps
The British XIII Corps was a major field formation of the British Army that saw extensive combat service in both World War I and World War II, particularly in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres.
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D.
British XXX Corps
British XXX Corps was a major British Army formation in World War II, best known for its armoured spearhead role in the Allied advance during the Normandy campaign and the failed Operation Market Garden.
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E.
1st (United Kingdom) Division
The 1st (United Kingdom) Division is a British Army formation that serves as a key deployable headquarters for adaptable and light forces in modern operations.
- 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: II Corps (British Army) Description of subject: II Corps (British Army) was a major field formation of the British Army that played a key role in early World War II operations, including the deployment of forces to France and the Dunkirk evacuation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
British Expeditionary Force
linked to: II Corps (British Army)
subject linked to:
British Expeditionary Force
linked to: II Corps (British Army)