2nd Battalion, 1st Marines
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The 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps known for its combat deployments and service in major conflicts as part of the 1st Marine Division.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines canonical | 6 |
| 2nd Battalion 1st Marines | 2 |
| 2nd Bn, 1st Marines | 1 |
| E Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines | 1 |
| United States Marine Corps infantry battalion | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T655064 — 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: 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines Context triple: [1st Marine Regiment, hasBattalion, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines]
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2nd Battalion, 7th Marines
The 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines is a U.S. Marine Corps infantry battalion renowned for its combat service in major conflicts from World War II through the Global War on Terror.
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2nd Battalion, 5th Marines
The 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines is a highly decorated infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps known for its extensive combat history and distinguished service in major conflicts.
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1st Battalion, 1st Marines
The 1st Battalion, 1st Marines is a frontline infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps with a long combat history dating back to World War II.
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D.
1st Battalion, 7th Marines
The 1st Battalion, 7th Marines is a storied infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps known for its extensive combat history from World War II through modern conflicts.
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3rd Battalion, 7th Marines
The 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines is a United States Marine Corps infantry battalion renowned for its combat deployments and service as part of the 1st Marine Division.
- 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: 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines Target entity description: The 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps known for its combat deployments and service in major conflicts as part of the 1st Marine Division.
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A.
2nd Battalion, 7th Marines
The 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines is a U.S. Marine Corps infantry battalion renowned for its combat service in major conflicts from World War II through the Global War on Terror.
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B.
2nd Battalion, 5th Marines
The 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines is a highly decorated infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps known for its extensive combat history and distinguished service in major conflicts.
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C.
1st Battalion, 1st Marines
The 1st Battalion, 1st Marines is a frontline infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps with a long combat history dating back to World War II.
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D.
1st Battalion, 7th Marines
The 1st Battalion, 7th Marines is a storied infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps known for its extensive combat history from World War II through modern conflicts.
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E.
3rd Battalion, 7th Marines
The 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines is a United States Marine Corps infantry battalion renowned for its combat deployments and service as part of the 1st Marine Division.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines Description of subject: The 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps known for its combat deployments and service in major conflicts as part of the 1st Marine Division.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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2/1
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Echo Company
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Echo Company
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Echo Company
linked to: 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines
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Fox Company
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Medal of Honor recipient Dale M. Hansen