Wabash River Ordnance Works
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Wabash River Ordnance Works was a World War II–era U.S. Army munitions and chemical weapons production facility located near Newport, Indiana.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wabash River Ordnance Works canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11818645 — 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: Wabash River Ordnance Works Context triple: [Newport Chemical Depot, originalName, Wabash River Ordnance Works]
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A.
Weldon Spring Ordnance Works
Weldon Spring Ordnance Works was a major World War II-era munitions and later uranium-processing facility in Missouri that became part of the Manhattan Project and is now known for its extensive environmental cleanup.
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B.
Watervliet Arsenal
Watervliet Arsenal is a historic U.S. Army manufacturing facility in Watervliet, New York, best known as the nation’s oldest continuously active arsenal and a primary producer of artillery and cannon barrels.
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C.
Rock Island Arsenal
Rock Island Arsenal is a major U.S. Army facility and manufacturing center known for producing military weapons, equipment, and ordnance.
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D.
Iowa Ordnance Plant
The Iowa Ordnance Plant was a World War II–era munitions manufacturing facility in Iowa that played a role in the U.S. nuclear weapons program as part of the Manhattan Project.
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E.
Watertown Arsenal
Watertown Arsenal is a historic former U.S. Army ordnance and research facility in Watertown, Massachusetts, that played a key role in American military manufacturing and technology development.
- 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: Wabash River Ordnance Works Target entity description: Wabash River Ordnance Works was a World War II–era U.S. Army munitions and chemical weapons production facility located near Newport, Indiana.
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A.
Weldon Spring Ordnance Works
Weldon Spring Ordnance Works was a major World War II-era munitions and later uranium-processing facility in Missouri that became part of the Manhattan Project and is now known for its extensive environmental cleanup.
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B.
Watervliet Arsenal
Watervliet Arsenal is a historic U.S. Army manufacturing facility in Watervliet, New York, best known as the nation’s oldest continuously active arsenal and a primary producer of artillery and cannon barrels.
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C.
Rock Island Arsenal
Rock Island Arsenal is a major U.S. Army facility and manufacturing center known for producing military weapons, equipment, and ordnance.
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D.
Iowa Ordnance Plant
The Iowa Ordnance Plant was a World War II–era munitions manufacturing facility in Iowa that played a role in the U.S. nuclear weapons program as part of the Manhattan Project.
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E.
Watertown Arsenal
Watertown Arsenal is a historic former U.S. Army ordnance and research facility in Watertown, Massachusetts, that played a key role in American military manufacturing and technology development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Army munitions plant
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chemical weapons production facility ⓘ |
| category |
Chemical weapons production facilities of the United States
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Military facilities in Indiana ⓘ United States Army arsenals ⓘ World War II industrial sites in the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era |
World War II era
ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
|
| hasType |
military industrial facility
ⓘ
ordnance works ⓘ |
| industry | defense industry ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Indiana
ⓘ
Vermillion County, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ near Newport, Indiana ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Newport Army Ammunition Plant
ⓘ
linked to:
Newport Chemical Depot
Newport, Indiana ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Wabash River ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Wabash River ⓘ |
| operator | United States Army ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States Army Ordnance Department facilities
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Army arsenals
|
| usedDuring | World War II ⓘ |
| usedFor |
chemical weapons production
ⓘ
munitions production ⓘ |
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: Wabash River Ordnance Works Description of subject: Wabash River Ordnance Works was a World War II–era U.S. Army munitions and chemical weapons production facility located near Newport, Indiana.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.