War Cross
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War Cross is a military decoration awarded by several countries, notably France, to recognize acts of bravery in combat.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| War Cross canonical | 2 |
| War Cross (English name) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T201871 — 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: War Cross Context triple: [Croix de Guerre, translationOfName, War Cross]
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A.
The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire FC.
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B.
The Railway Man
The Railway Man is a 2013 British-Australian war drama film in which Colin Firth portrays a former World War II prisoner of war confronting the trauma of his past.
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C.
The Warden
The Warden is an 1855 novel by Anthony Trollope that inaugurates his Chronicles of Barsetshire series, focusing on church politics, moral conflict, and social reform in a fictional English cathedral town.
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D.
The Looming Tower
The Looming Tower is a critically acclaimed non-fiction book by Lawrence Wright that traces the rise of al-Qaeda and the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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E.
The Drowned and the Saved
The Drowned and the Saved is Primo Levi’s final, reflective work of essays examining the moral, psychological, and historical complexities of the Holocaust and its survivors.
- 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: War Cross Target entity description: War Cross is a military decoration awarded by several countries, notably France, to recognize acts of bravery in combat.
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A.
The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire FC.
-
B.
The Railway Man
The Railway Man is a 2013 British-Australian war drama film in which Colin Firth portrays a former World War II prisoner of war confronting the trauma of his past.
-
C.
The Warden
The Warden is an 1855 novel by Anthony Trollope that inaugurates his Chronicles of Barsetshire series, focusing on church politics, moral conflict, and social reform in a fictional English cathedral town.
-
D.
The Looming Tower
The Looming Tower is a critically acclaimed non-fiction book by Lawrence Wright that traces the rise of al-Qaeda and the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
-
E.
The Drowned and the Saved
The Drowned and the Saved is Primo Levi’s final, reflective work of essays examining the moral, psychological, and historical complexities of the Holocaust and its survivors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military award
ⓘ
military decoration ⓘ |
| awardedBy |
Belgium
ⓘ
Czechoslovakia ⓘ France ⓘ Greece ⓘ Portugal ⓘ |
| awardedFor |
acts of bravery in combat
ⓘ
heroism in wartime ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| country |
Belgium
ⓘ
Czechoslovakia ⓘ France ⓘ Greece ⓘ Portugal ⓘ |
| eligibility |
foreign military personnel
ⓘ
military personnel ⓘ units and formations ⓘ |
| hasForm |
medal
ⓘ
ribbon ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Croix de Guerre (Belgium)
ⓘ
linked to:
Belgian Croix de Guerre
Croix de Guerre (Portugal) ⓘ Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France) ⓘ
linked to:
Croix de Guerre
Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France) ⓘ
linked to:
Croix de Guerre
Croix de Guerre des Théâtres d’Opérations Extérieures (France) ⓘ
linked to:
Croix de Guerre
Czechoslovak War Cross 1914–1918 ⓘ Czechoslovak War Cross 1939 ⓘ
linked to:
Czechoslovak War Cross 1914–1918
Greek War Cross ⓘ |
| languageVariant |
Croix de Guerre (French name)
ⓘ
linked to:
Croix de Guerre
War Cross (English name) ⓘ
linked to:
War Cross
|
| notableVersion |
Belgian Croix de Guerre
ⓘ
Czechoslovak War Cross ⓘ
linked to:
Czechoslovak War Cross 1914–1918
French Croix de Guerre ⓘ
linked to:
Croix de Guerre
Greek War Cross ⓘ |
| purpose |
recognition of distinguished service in combat operations
ⓘ
recognition of gallantry in the face of the enemy ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
orders, decorations and medals of Belgium
ⓘ
orders, decorations and medals of Czechoslovakia ⓘ orders, decorations and medals of France ⓘ
linked to:
French national orders
orders, decorations and medals of Greece ⓘ orders, decorations and medals of Portugal ⓘ |
| status | may be awarded posthumously ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
courage under fire
ⓘ
military valor ⓘ |
| typeOfBravery |
collective acts of heroism by units
ⓘ
individual acts of heroism ⓘ |
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: War Cross Description of subject: War Cross is a military decoration awarded by several countries, notably France, to recognize acts of bravery in combat.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: War Cross