Gama Goat
E437832
Gama Goat is a six-wheel-drive, semi-amphibious military vehicle used by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War era, known for its articulated design and off-road capability.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gama Goat canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4403671 — 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: Gama Goat Context triple: [M561 Gama Goat, hasNickname, Gama Goat]
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A.
Goat
Goat is a 1991 noise rock album by The Jesus Lizard, widely regarded as one of the band’s most intense and influential releases.
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B.
Mouton
Mouton is an academic publishing house known for its influential works in linguistics and related fields.
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C.
Angora goat
The Angora goat is a domestic goat breed renowned for producing mohair, a luxurious, silky fiber used in high-quality textiles.
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D.
Dongo
Dongo is a small town on the northwestern shore of Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, known for its role in the capture of Benito Mussolini at the end of World War II.
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E.
Pongo
Pongo is the intelligent and devoted Dalmatian dog who serves as the central canine protagonist in Disney’s "One Hundred and One Dalmatians."
- 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: Gama Goat Target entity description: Gama Goat is a six-wheel-drive, semi-amphibious military vehicle used by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War era, known for its articulated design and off-road capability.
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A.
Goat
Goat is a 1991 noise rock album by The Jesus Lizard, widely regarded as one of the band’s most intense and influential releases.
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B.
Mouton
Mouton is an academic publishing house known for its influential works in linguistics and related fields.
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C.
Angora goat
The Angora goat is a domestic goat breed renowned for producing mohair, a luxurious, silky fiber used in high-quality textiles.
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D.
Dongo
Dongo is a small town on the northwestern shore of Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, known for its role in the capture of Benito Mussolini at the end of World War II.
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E.
Pongo
Pongo is the intelligent and devoted Dalmatian dog who serves as the central canine protagonist in Disney’s "One Hundred and One Dalmatians."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
amphibious vehicle
ⓘ
articulated vehicle ⓘ military vehicle ⓘ tactical truck ⓘ |
| amphibiousPropulsion | by wheels in water ⓘ |
| articulationFunction | improves off-road mobility ⓘ |
| brakeType | air-over-hydraulic brakes ⓘ |
| canBeAirDropped | true ⓘ |
| canBeAirTransportedBy |
C-130 Hercules
ⓘ
linked to:
Lockheed C-130 Hercules
CH-47 Chinook ⓘ |
| chassisConfiguration | two-unit tractor and trailer permanently connected ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crew | 1 ⓘ |
| designer | Roger Gamaunt ⓘ |
| driveLayout | 6×6 ⓘ |
| engineConfiguration | 3-cylinder two-stroke diesel ⓘ |
| enginePowerOutput | 103 hp ⓘ |
| engineType | Detroit Diesel 3-53 ⓘ |
| familyIncludes |
M561 cargo truck
ⓘ
M792 ambulance ⓘ |
| hasArticulatedChassis | true ⓘ |
| hasArticulatedJoint | true ⓘ |
| isSemiAmphibious | true ⓘ |
| maximumRoadSpeed | about 55 mph ⓘ |
| maximumWaterSpeed | about 3 mph ⓘ |
| nameOrigin | derived from designer Roger Gamaunt’s name ⓘ |
| notedFor |
complex maintenance requirements
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excellent off-road capability ⓘ high noise level ⓘ |
| numberOfWheels | 6 ⓘ |
| officialDesignation | M561 ⓘ |
| operatorEnvironment | tactical field operations ⓘ |
| passengerCapacity | up to 11 in cargo configuration ⓘ |
| payloadCapacity | about 1.25 tons off-road ⓘ |
| primaryRole |
ambulance
ⓘ
cargo transport ⓘ communications vehicle ⓘ personnel carrier ⓘ |
| producedBy | Consolidated Diesel Electric Company (CONDEC) ⓘ |
| productionPeriod | late 1960s to early 1970s ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
HMMWV
ⓘ
linked to:
Humvee
|
| serviceEntry | 1969 ⓘ |
| serviceRetirement | 1980s ⓘ |
| steeringType | front and articulation steering ⓘ |
| suspensionType | independent suspension ⓘ |
| transmissionType | manual transmission ⓘ |
| usedBy |
United States Army
ⓘ
United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | Vietnam War ⓘ |
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: Gama Goat Description of subject: Gama Goat is a six-wheel-drive, semi-amphibious military vehicle used by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War era, known for its articulated design and off-road capability.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.