Lima Company
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Lima Company is a rifle company within the U.S. Marine Corps’ 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, known for its infantry combat role.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lima Company canonical | 4 |
| Lima Co, 3/8 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3898768 — 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: Lima Company Context triple: [3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, component, Lima Company]
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A.
John Company
John Company is a historical nickname for the British East India Company, the powerful trading corporation that played a central role in establishing British rule in India.
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B.
United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
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C.
San Rafael Group
The San Rafael Group is a Middle Jurassic sedimentary rock sequence in the western United States known for its widespread sandstones, siltstones, and marine to marginal-marine deposits.
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D.
Coleman Company
Coleman Company is an American manufacturer best known for its outdoor recreation products such as camping gear, lanterns, and coolers.
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E.
The Ladd Company
The Ladd Company is an American film production company known for backing notable movies such as "Chariots of Fire," "Blade Runner," and other influential works of the late 20th century.
- 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: Lima Company Target entity description: Lima Company is a rifle company within the U.S. Marine Corps’ 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, known for its infantry combat role.
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A.
John Company
John Company is a historical nickname for the British East India Company, the powerful trading corporation that played a central role in establishing British rule in India.
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B.
United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
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C.
San Rafael Group
The San Rafael Group is a Middle Jurassic sedimentary rock sequence in the western United States known for its widespread sandstones, siltstones, and marine to marginal-marine deposits.
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D.
Coleman Company
Coleman Company is an American manufacturer best known for its outdoor recreation products such as camping gear, lanterns, and coolers.
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E.
The Ladd Company
The Ladd Company is an American film production company known for backing notable movies such as "Chariots of Fire," "Blade Runner," and other influential works of the late 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Marine Corps unit
ⓘ
infantry unit ⓘ rifle company ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| branch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| combatArm | ground combat element ⓘ |
| combatArmCategory | infantry ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| engagementEnvironment |
amphibious operations
ⓘ
ground warfare ⓘ urban combat ⓘ |
| garrisonCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| higherEchelon |
1st Marine Division
ⓘ
linked to:
1st Marine Division (United States)
1st Marine Regiment ⓘ 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines ⓘ I Marine Expeditionary Force ⓘ |
| militaryBranchAbbreviation |
USMC
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Marine Corps
|
| militaryRole |
infantry
ⓘ
rifle company ⓘ |
| namingScheme | NATO phonetic alphabet letter "L" ⓘ |
| natoNameConvention | L Company ⓘ |
| organizationalLevel | company ⓘ |
| partOf |
1st Marine Division
ⓘ
linked to:
1st Marine Division (United States)
1st Marine Regiment ⓘ 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines ⓘ I Marine Expeditionary Force ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
close combat operations
ⓘ
rifle infantry operations ⓘ |
| serviceBranchType | Marine infantry ⓘ |
| standardLanguage | English ⓘ |
| typicalPersonnelType |
assaultman
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infantry officer ⓘ infantry rifleman ⓘ machine gunner ⓘ mortarman ⓘ non-commissioned officer ⓘ |
| typicalSize | approximately 150 to 200 Marines and sailors ⓘ |
| typicalSubunits |
rifle platoon
ⓘ
weapons platoon ⓘ |
| usesDoctrine |
Marine Air-Ground Task Force doctrine
ⓘ
United States Marine Corps infantry doctrine ⓘ |
| usesEquipmentType |
crew-served weapons
ⓘ
light infantry vehicles ⓘ small arms ⓘ |
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: Lima Company Description of subject: Lima Company is a rifle company within the U.S. Marine Corps’ 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, known for its infantry combat role.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lima Company