Battle of Jordanów
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The Battle of Jordanów was a 1939 World War II engagement in southern Poland, where Polish forces mounted a notable armored and defensive action against the invading German army during the early days of the conflict.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Battle of Jordanów canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2513341 — 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: Battle of Jordanów Context triple: [Battle of the Border, hasPart, Battle of Jordanów]
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A.
Battle of Zadwórze
The Battle of Zadwórze was a 1920 clash in which a small Polish force mounted a desperate, sacrificial defense against advancing Soviet troops, earning it the nickname "the Polish Thermopylae."
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B.
Battle of Kliszów
The Battle of Kliszów was a major 1702 engagement in the Great Northern War in which Swedish forces under Charles XII defeated a larger Saxon-Polish army, reinforcing Sweden’s dominance in the early phase of the conflict.
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C.
Battle of Limanowa
The Battle of Limanowa was a World War I Eastern Front engagement in late 1914 in Galicia, where Austro-Hungarian forces halted a major Russian advance toward Kraków.
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D.
Battle of Komarów
The Battle of Komarów was a 1920 cavalry engagement near Zamość in southeastern Poland, remembered as one of the last great cavalry battles in history and a significant Polish victory over Soviet forces.
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E.
Battle of Trzciana
The Battle of Trzciana was a 1629 clash during the Polish–Swedish War in which Polish–Lithuanian cavalry forces inflicted a rare and significant defeat on the army of Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus.
- 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: Battle of Jordanów Target entity description: The Battle of Jordanów was a 1939 World War II engagement in southern Poland, where Polish forces mounted a notable armored and defensive action against the invading German army during the early days of the conflict.
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A.
Battle of Zadwórze
The Battle of Zadwórze was a 1920 clash in which a small Polish force mounted a desperate, sacrificial defense against advancing Soviet troops, earning it the nickname "the Polish Thermopylae."
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B.
Battle of Kliszów
The Battle of Kliszów was a major 1702 engagement in the Great Northern War in which Swedish forces under Charles XII defeated a larger Saxon-Polish army, reinforcing Sweden’s dominance in the early phase of the conflict.
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C.
Battle of Limanowa
The Battle of Limanowa was a World War I Eastern Front engagement in late 1914 in Galicia, where Austro-Hungarian forces halted a major Russian advance toward Kraków.
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D.
Battle of Komarów
The Battle of Komarów was a 1920 cavalry engagement near Zamość in southeastern Poland, remembered as one of the last great cavalry battles in history and a significant Polish victory over Soviet forces.
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E.
Battle of Trzciana
The Battle of Trzciana was a 1629 clash during the Polish–Swedish War in which Polish–Lithuanian cavalry forces inflicted a rare and significant defeat on the army of Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World War II battle
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battle ⓘ |
| belligerent |
Nazi Germany
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Second Polish Republic ⓘ |
| combatantRole |
Germany as attacker
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Poland as defender ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | Poland ⓘ |
| date | 1939-09-01 ⓘ |
| endDate | 1939-09-03 ⓘ |
| front | Polish Front ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfSources |
English
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German ⓘ Polish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Polish armored counterattacks
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Polish defensive action delaying German advance ⓘ |
| opponent |
German Army
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Polish Army ⓘ |
| partOf |
German invasion of Poland
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Invasion of Poland ⓘ September Campaign ⓘ |
| place | Jordanów ⓘ |
| region | southern Poland ⓘ |
| result | German victory ⓘ |
| strategicEffect | temporary delay of German advance in southern Poland ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early days of the Invasion of Poland
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early stages of World War II ⓘ |
| usedForcesType |
armored units
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artillery units ⓘ infantry units ⓘ |
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: Battle of Jordanów Description of subject: The Battle of Jordanów was a 1939 World War II engagement in southern Poland, where Polish forces mounted a notable armored and defensive action against the invading German army during the early days of the conflict.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.