Sri Lanka Army
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The Sri Lanka Army is the land-based military branch of Sri Lanka responsible for ground warfare, national defense, and internal security operations.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sri Lanka Army canonical | 28 |
| Ceylon Army | 2 |
| Vijayabahu Infantry Regiment | 1 |
| இலங்கை இராணுவம் | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3230257 — 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: Sri Lanka Army Context triple: [Fort Frederick, usedBy, Sri Lanka Army]
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A.
Ceylon Defence Force
The Ceylon Defence Force was the colonial-era military organization of British Ceylon, responsible for the island’s local defense and internal security before independence.
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B.
Sri Lanka Air Force
The Sri Lanka Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of Sri Lanka’s armed forces, responsible for defending the nation’s airspace and providing air support for military and humanitarian operations.
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C.
Malaysian Army
The Malaysian Army is the land warfare branch of Malaysia’s Armed Forces, responsible for defending the nation’s territorial integrity and conducting ground operations at home and abroad.
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D.
Timor-Leste Defence Force
The Timor-Leste Defence Force is the national military of Timor-Leste, established after independence to provide the country’s defense and security.
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E.
Malaysian Armed Forces
The Malaysian Armed Forces are the combined military services of Malaysia, responsible for defending the nation’s sovereignty and security on land, at sea, and in the air.
- 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: Sri Lanka Army Target entity description: The Sri Lanka Army is the land-based military branch of Sri Lanka responsible for ground warfare, national defense, and internal security operations.
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A.
Ceylon Defence Force
The Ceylon Defence Force was the colonial-era military organization of British Ceylon, responsible for the island’s local defense and internal security before independence.
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B.
Sri Lanka Air Force
The Sri Lanka Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of Sri Lanka’s armed forces, responsible for defending the nation’s airspace and providing air support for military and humanitarian operations.
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C.
Malaysian Army
The Malaysian Army is the land warfare branch of Malaysia’s Armed Forces, responsible for defending the nation’s territorial integrity and conducting ground operations at home and abroad.
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D.
Timor-Leste Defence Force
The Timor-Leste Defence Force is the national military of Timor-Leste, established after independence to provide the country’s defense and security.
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E.
Malaysian Armed Forces
The Malaysian Armed Forces are the combined military services of Malaysia, responsible for defending the nation’s sovereignty and security on land, at sea, and in the air.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (78)
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: Sri Lanka Army Description of subject: The Sri Lanka Army is the land-based military branch of Sri Lanka responsible for ground warfare, national defense, and internal security operations.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sri Lanka Army
linked to: Sri Lanka Army
subject linked to:
FV432 armoured personnel carrier
linked to: Sri Lanka Army
linked to: Sri Lanka Army
subject linked to:
Ferret armoured cars
subject linked to:
Saracen armoured personnel carriers
subject linked to:
General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University named in his honor