Company C, 18th Infantry Regiment
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Company C, 18th Infantry Regiment is a U.S. Army infantry company made famous as the real-life World War II unit depicted in the film "The Story of G.I. Joe."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 18th Infantry Regiment (United States) | 1 |
| Company C, 18th Infantry Regiment canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10812730 — 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: Company C, 18th Infantry Regiment Context triple: [The Story of G.I. Joe, portrays, Company C, 18th Infantry Regiment]
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A.
Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment
Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment was a U.S. Army infantry company in the Vietnam War, historically infamous for its central role in the 1968 My Lai massacre.
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B.
2nd Battalion 187th Infantry Regiment
The 2nd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment is a U.S. Army airborne infantry battalion known for its service as part of the 101st Airborne Division in multiple major conflicts.
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C.
B Company 6th Infantry Regiment
B Company 6th Infantry Regiment was an Argentine Army infantry company that took part in the fighting during the Battle of Mount Tumbledown in the Falklands War.
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D.
115th Infantry Regiment
The 115th Infantry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army infantry regiment best known for its service in World War I and World War II as part of the 29th Infantry Division.
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E.
188th Brigade
The 188th Brigade was an infantry formation of the British Army that served as part of the Royal Naval Division during the First World War.
- 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: Company C, 18th Infantry Regiment Target entity description: Company C, 18th Infantry Regiment is a U.S. Army infantry company made famous as the real-life World War II unit depicted in the film "The Story of G.I. Joe."
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A.
Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment
Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment was a U.S. Army infantry company in the Vietnam War, historically infamous for its central role in the 1968 My Lai massacre.
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B.
2nd Battalion 187th Infantry Regiment
The 2nd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment is a U.S. Army airborne infantry battalion known for its service as part of the 101st Airborne Division in multiple major conflicts.
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C.
B Company 6th Infantry Regiment
B Company 6th Infantry Regiment was an Argentine Army infantry company that took part in the fighting during the Battle of Mount Tumbledown in the Falklands War.
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D.
115th Infantry Regiment
The 115th Infantry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army infantry regiment best known for its service in World War I and World War II as part of the 29th Infantry Division.
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E.
188th Brigade
The 188th Brigade was an infantry formation of the British Army that served as part of the Royal Naval Division during the First World War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army unit
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infantry company ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| associatedUnit |
1st Infantry Division
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linked to:
United States 1st Infantry Division
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| associatedWith | Ernie Pyle ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| depictedAs | front-line rifle company in World War II ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| languageOfCommand | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRole | front-line infantry combat ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the real-life unit depicted in the film "The Story of G.I. Joe" ⓘ |
| partOf | 18th Infantry Regiment ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | The Story of G.I. Joe ⓘ |
| serviceBranchType | infantry ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
European Theater of Operations
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Italian campaign ⓘ North African campaign ⓘ |
| timePeriod | World War II era ⓘ |
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: Company C, 18th Infantry Regiment Description of subject: Company C, 18th Infantry Regiment is a U.S. Army infantry company made famous as the real-life World War II unit depicted in the film "The Story of G.I. Joe."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Camp Harry J. Jones, Arizona
linked to: Company C, 18th Infantry Regiment