DA
E53563
DA is the official abbreviation for the United States Department of the Army, the federal agency responsible for organizing, training, and equipping the U.S. Army.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DA canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T423890 — 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: DA Context triple: [United States Department of the Army, abbreviation, DA]
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A.
DAL
DAL is the stock ticker symbol for Delta Air Lines, a major U.S.-based international airline.
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B.
DS
DS is the standardized Diploma Supplement used across the European Higher Education Area to provide transparent, comparable information about higher education qualifications.
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C.
DS
DS is the Directorate of Support, a key administrative and logistical branch responsible for providing essential support services within an intelligence or governmental organization.
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D.
DM
DM is the commonly used abbreviation for the Deutsche Mark, the former official currency of West Germany and later unified Germany before the adoption of the euro.
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E.
AS
AS is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to American Samoa.
- 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: DA Target entity description: DA is the official abbreviation for the United States Department of the Army, the federal agency responsible for organizing, training, and equipping the U.S. Army.
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A.
DAL
DAL is the stock ticker symbol for Delta Air Lines, a major U.S.-based international airline.
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B.
DS
DS is the standardized Diploma Supplement used across the European Higher Education Area to provide transparent, comparable information about higher education qualifications.
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C.
DS
DS is the Directorate of Support, a key administrative and logistical branch responsible for providing essential support services within an intelligence or governmental organization.
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D.
DM
DM is the commonly used abbreviation for the Deutsche Mark, the former official currency of West Germany and later unified Germany before the adoption of the euro.
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E.
AS
AS is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to American Samoa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal agency
ⓘ
executive branch department component ⓘ government agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | DA ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor | United States Department of the Army ⓘ |
| branchOfMilitary | United States Army ⓘ |
| budgetType | United States federal budget ⓘ |
| componentOf |
United States Armed Forces military departments
ⓘ
linked to:
United States military departments
|
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employerOf |
civilian employees of the Department of the Army
ⓘ
uniformed personnel of the United States Army ⓘ |
| establishedBy | National Security Act of 1947 ⓘ |
| headedBy |
United States Secretary of the Army
ⓘ
linked to:
Secretary of the Army
|
| headquartersCity | Arlington, Virginia ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
The Pentagon
ⓘ
linked to:
Pentagon
|
| jurisdiction |
federal government of the United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | executive department-level military department ⓘ |
| militaryBranchType | land warfare ⓘ |
| mission | provide trained and equipped land forces to combatant commanders ⓘ |
| officeHolderOf | head of the United States Department of the Army ⓘ |
| oversees |
United States Army Reserve
ⓘ
linked to:
Army Reserve
active duty U.S. Army forces ⓘ in part, Army National Guard (in federal status) ⓘ
linked to:
Army National Guard
|
| parentOrganization |
United States Department of Defense
ⓘ
linked to:
Department of Defense
|
| partOf |
United States Department of Defense
ⓘ
linked to:
Department of Defense
|
| precededBy | United States Department of War ⓘ |
| responsibleFor | United States Army ⓘ |
| role |
equipping the U.S. Army
ⓘ
organizing the U.S. Army ⓘ training the U.S. Army ⓘ |
| sector | defense ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | United States Secretary of Defense ⓘ |
| worksWith |
United States Department of the Air Force
ⓘ
linked to:
Department of the Air Force
United States Department of the Navy ⓘ
linked to:
Department of the Navy
|
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: DA Description of subject: DA is the official abbreviation for the United States Department of the Army, the federal agency responsible for organizing, training, and equipping the U.S. Army.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
DA