Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines
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Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines is a rifle company-sized infantry unit of the United States Marine Corps known for its role within the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11582583 — 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)
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Target entity: Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines Context triple: [3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, hasSubunit, Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines]
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A.
3rd Battalion, 8th Marines
The 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps known for its combat deployments and role within the 2nd Marine Division.
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B.
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.
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C.
3rd Battalion, 6th Marines
The 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps known for its combat deployments and service in major conflicts throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
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D.
3rd Battalion, 1st Marines
The 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps known for its combat deployments and service in major conflicts including World War II, the Korean War, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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E.
3rd Battalion, 28th Marines
The 3rd Battalion, 28th Marines was a World War II United States Marine Corps infantry battalion best known as part of the regiment that fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
- 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: Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines Target entity description: Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines is a rifle company-sized infantry unit of the United States Marine Corps known for its role within the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment.
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A.
3rd Battalion, 8th Marines
The 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps known for its combat deployments and role within the 2nd Marine Division.
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B.
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.
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C.
3rd Battalion, 6th Marines
The 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps known for its combat deployments and service in major conflicts throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
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D.
3rd Battalion, 1st Marines
The 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps known for its combat deployments and service in major conflicts including World War II, the Korean War, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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E.
3rd Battalion, 28th Marines
The 3rd Battalion, 28th Marines was a World War II United States Marine Corps infantry battalion best known as part of the regiment that fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Marine Corps unit
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infantry unit ⓘ rifle company ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
L Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines
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linked to:
3rd Battalion, 8th Marines
Lima Co, 3/8 ⓘ
linked to:
Lima Company
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| branch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| corps | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| garrisonCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| higherFormation |
2nd Marine Division
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3rd Battalion, 8th Marines ⓘ 8th Marine Regiment ⓘ
linked to:
8th Marines
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| militaryBranchType | naval infantry ⓘ |
| militaryFunction | ground combat ⓘ |
| militaryRole | infantry ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as a rifle company within 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines ⓘ |
| partOf |
2nd Marine Division
ⓘ
3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment ⓘ
linked to:
3rd Battalion, 8th Marines
3rd Battalion, 8th Marines ⓘ 8th Marine Regiment ⓘ
linked to:
8th Marines
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| service | United States Armed Forces ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| size | company ⓘ |
| typicalSubunits |
rifle platoon
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weapons platoon ⓘ |
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: Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines Description of subject: Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines is a rifle company-sized infantry unit of the United States Marine Corps known for its role within the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.