World War II Memorial
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The World War II Memorial is a national monument in Washington, D.C., honoring the Americans who served and sacrificed during the Second World War.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| National World War II Memorial | 8 |
| World War II Memorial canonical | 8 |
| World War II Memorial (via Lincoln Memorial Circle vicinity) | 1 |
| World War II memorial | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T137910 — 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: World War II Memorial Context triple: [National Mall, contains, World War II Memorial]
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A.
Marine Corps War Memorial
The Marine Corps War Memorial is a monumental bronze sculpture near Arlington National Cemetery that depicts the iconic World War II flag-raising on Iwo Jima, honoring all U.S. Marine Corps personnel who have died in defense of the United States.
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B.
Pentagon Memorial
The Pentagon Memorial is a national memorial in Arlington, Virginia, honoring the 184 victims who died in the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon.
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C.
Air Force Memorial
The Air Force Memorial is a national monument in Arlington, Virginia, honoring the service and sacrifice of members of the United States Air Force through three soaring stainless-steel spires that evoke the flight of the Air Force Thunderbirds.
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D.
Battleship Missouri Memorial
The Battleship Missouri Memorial is a historic museum ship in Hawaii, best known as the site of Japan’s formal surrender in World War II, now preserved as a major naval and World War II memorial.
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E.
MacArthur Memorial
The MacArthur Memorial is a museum and final resting place in Norfolk, Virginia, dedicated to the life, military career, and legacy of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur.
- 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: World War II Memorial Target entity description: The World War II Memorial is a national monument in Washington, D.C., honoring the Americans who served and sacrificed during the Second World War.
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A.
Marine Corps War Memorial
The Marine Corps War Memorial is a monumental bronze sculpture near Arlington National Cemetery that depicts the iconic World War II flag-raising on Iwo Jima, honoring all U.S. Marine Corps personnel who have died in defense of the United States.
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B.
Pentagon Memorial
The Pentagon Memorial is a national memorial in Arlington, Virginia, honoring the 184 victims who died in the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon.
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C.
Air Force Memorial
The Air Force Memorial is a national monument in Arlington, Virginia, honoring the service and sacrifice of members of the United States Air Force through three soaring stainless-steel spires that evoke the flight of the Air Force Thunderbirds.
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D.
Battleship Missouri Memorial
The Battleship Missouri Memorial is a historic museum ship in Hawaii, best known as the site of Japan’s formal surrender in World War II, now preserved as a major naval and World War II memorial.
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E.
MacArthur Memorial
The MacArthur Memorial is a museum and final resting place in Norfolk, Virginia, dedicated to the life, military career, and legacy of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur.
- 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: World War II Memorial Description of subject: The World War II Memorial is a national monument in Washington, D.C., honoring the Americans who served and sacrificed during the Second World War.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Foggy Bottom neighborhood
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Constitution Gardens (adjacent/associated area)
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subject linked to:
Constitution Gardens area
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Château-Salins, Moselle, France
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