26th Army (Red Army)
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The 26th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front during World War II, notably in the early defensive battles against the German invasion.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 26th Army (Red Army) canonical | 1 |
| 26th Army (Soviet Union) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T437951 — 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: 26th Army (Red Army) Context triple: [Soviet Southwestern Front, componentUnit, 26th Army (Red Army)]
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A.
6th Army (Red Army)
The 6th Army (Red Army) was a major field army of the Soviet Union that fought in several key operations on the Eastern Front during World War II, including the early defensive battles against the German invasion.
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B.
Soviet 60th Army
The Soviet 60th Army was a Red Army field formation of the USSR that advanced through Eastern Europe in World War II and is historically notable for liberating the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945.
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C.
Soviet 62nd Army
The Soviet 62nd Army was a Red Army field formation renowned for its pivotal and stubborn defense of Stalingrad during World War II, which played a crucial role in turning the tide on the Eastern Front.
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D.
Soviet 64th Army
The Soviet 64th Army was a Red Army field formation that played a key defensive and offensive role on the southern flank of the Soviet forces during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II.
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E.
8th Guards Army
The 8th Guards Army was an elite Soviet Red Army formation renowned for its pivotal role in World War II, particularly in the Battle of Stalingrad and subsequent offensives into Eastern Europe and Germany.
- 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: 26th Army (Red Army) Target entity description: The 26th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front during World War II, notably in the early defensive battles against the German invasion.
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A.
6th Army (Red Army)
The 6th Army (Red Army) was a major field army of the Soviet Union that fought in several key operations on the Eastern Front during World War II, including the early defensive battles against the German invasion.
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B.
Soviet 60th Army
The Soviet 60th Army was a Red Army field formation of the USSR that advanced through Eastern Europe in World War II and is historically notable for liberating the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945.
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C.
Soviet 62nd Army
The Soviet 62nd Army was a Red Army field formation renowned for its pivotal and stubborn defense of Stalingrad during World War II, which played a crucial role in turning the tide on the Eastern Front.
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D.
Soviet 64th Army
The Soviet 64th Army was a Red Army field formation that played a key defensive and offensive role on the southern flank of the Soviet forces during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II.
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E.
8th Guards Army
The 8th Guards Army was an elite Soviet Red Army formation renowned for its pivotal role in World War II, particularly in the Battle of Stalingrad and subsequent offensives into Eastern Europe and Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet military unit
ⓘ
field army ⓘ |
| activity | land warfare ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
ⓘ
linked to:
Soviet Union
|
| branch | Ground forces ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| engagement | defensive operations during the German invasion of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| formedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| historicalEra | 20th century ⓘ |
| militaryBranchOf |
Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
ⓘ
linked to:
Red Army
|
| notableFor |
early defensive battles against Operation Barbarossa
ⓘ
resistance to the initial German advance in 1941 ⓘ |
| opponent |
Nazi Germany
ⓘ
Wehrmacht ⓘ |
| partOf | Red Army ⓘ |
| role | field army ⓘ |
| side | Allies of World War II ⓘ |
| theater | Eastern Front ⓘ |
| type | combined arms army ⓘ |
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: 26th Army (Red Army) Description of subject: The 26th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front during World War II, notably in the early defensive battles against the German invasion.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: 26th Army (Red Army)