15th Marine Expeditionary Unit
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The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit is a forward-deployed, rapid-response Marine Air-Ground Task Force of the U.S. Marine Corps capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and a wide range of military missions worldwide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 15th MEU | 1 |
| 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7555996 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit Context triple: [Marine Expeditionary Unit, hasNotableUnit, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit]
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31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit is a forward-deployed, amphibious Marine Air-Ground Task Force based in the Indo-Pacific region, specializing in rapid crisis response and expeditionary operations.
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11th Marine Expeditionary Unit
The 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit is a forward-deployed, rapid-response U.S. Marine Corps air-ground task force capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and limited contingency missions worldwide.
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13th Marine Expeditionary Unit
The 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit is a forward-deployed, rapid-response Marine Air-Ground Task Force of the United States Marine Corps capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and a wide range of military missions worldwide.
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24th Marine Expeditionary Unit
The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit is a rapid-response, sea-based U.S. Marine Corps task force capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and limited contingency missions worldwide.
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26th Marine Expeditionary Unit
The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit is a rapid-response, sea-based U.S. Marine Corps air-ground task force capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and limited contingency missions worldwide.
- 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: 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit Target entity description: The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit is a forward-deployed, rapid-response Marine Air-Ground Task Force of the U.S. Marine Corps capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and a wide range of military missions worldwide.
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A.
31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit is a forward-deployed, amphibious Marine Air-Ground Task Force based in the Indo-Pacific region, specializing in rapid crisis response and expeditionary operations.
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B.
11th Marine Expeditionary Unit
The 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit is a forward-deployed, rapid-response U.S. Marine Corps air-ground task force capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and limited contingency missions worldwide.
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C.
13th Marine Expeditionary Unit
The 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit is a forward-deployed, rapid-response Marine Air-Ground Task Force of the United States Marine Corps capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and a wide range of military missions worldwide.
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D.
24th Marine Expeditionary Unit
The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit is a rapid-response, sea-based U.S. Marine Corps task force capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and limited contingency missions worldwide.
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E.
26th Marine Expeditionary Unit
The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit is a rapid-response, sea-based U.S. Marine Corps air-ground task force capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and limited contingency missions worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Marine expeditionary unit ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
15th MEU
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linked to:
15th Marine Expeditionary Unit
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| allegiance |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| basedIn |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
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| capability |
air operations from amphibious ships
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amphibious operations ⓘ disaster relief ⓘ limited ground combat operations ⓘ sea-based power projection ⓘ special operations capable missions ⓘ |
| commandStructure | under operational control of a Navy Expeditionary Strike Group when deployed ⓘ |
| component |
aviation combat element
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command element ⓘ ground combat element ⓘ logistics combat element ⓘ |
| conflictParticipation |
Global War on Terrorism
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Operation Enduring Freedom ⓘ Operation Iraqi Freedom ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| deploymentPattern | rotational deployments with U.S. Navy Amphibious Ready Groups ⓘ |
| garrison | Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| mission |
conduct amphibious operations and crisis response worldwide
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provide a forward-deployed, sea-based, rapid-response capability ⓘ |
| motto | “The Fighting 15th” ⓘ |
| notableOperation |
Operation Restore Hope in Somalia
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linked to:
Operation Restore Hope
humanitarian assistance missions in the Indo-Pacific region ⓘ operations in Afghanistan ⓘ operations in Iraq ⓘ |
| operationalEnvironment |
austere shore-based environments
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littoral regions ⓘ maritime domains ⓘ |
| partOf | I Marine Expeditionary Force ⓘ |
| role |
amphibious assault
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crisis response ⓘ expeditionary warfare ⓘ forward-deployed force ⓘ humanitarian assistance ⓘ maritime security operations ⓘ noncombatant evacuation operations ⓘ rapid-response force ⓘ theater security cooperation ⓘ |
| sizeClassification | expeditionary unit ⓘ |
| type |
Marine Air-Ground Task Force
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linked to:
Marine Air-Ground Task Forces
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| typicalNavyPartner |
Amphibious Ready Group
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linked to:
Amphibious ready groups
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| typicalStrength | approximately 2200 Marines and Sailors ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit Description of subject: The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit is a forward-deployed, rapid-response Marine Air-Ground Task Force of the U.S. Marine Corps capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and a wide range of military missions worldwide.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)
linked to: 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit