IV Corps (British Army)
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IV Corps (British Army) was a major British Army field formation that played a significant role on the Western Front during the First World War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| IV Corps (British Army) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13268486 — 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: IV Corps (British Army) Context triple: [Battle of Neuve Chapelle, combatantUnit, IV Corps (British Army)]
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III Corps (British Army)
III Corps (British Army) was a major field formation of the British Army that served as part of the British Expeditionary Force during the early stages of World War II.
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I Corps (British Army)
I Corps (British Army) was a major British field corps-level formation that played key roles in both World Wars, including operations in France in 1940 and the Normandy campaign in 1944.
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C.
II Corps (British Army)
II Corps (British Army) was a major field formation of the British Army that played a key role in early World War II operations, including the deployment of forces to France and the Dunkirk evacuation.
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D.
British I Corps
British I Corps was a major field formation of the British Army that saw significant service in both World Wars, notably during the D-Day landings and subsequent Northwest Europe campaigns.
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E.
IV Corps (British India)
IV Corps (British India) was a major British Indian Army field formation that played a key role in the Burma Campaign of World War II under the Fourteenth Army.
- 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: IV Corps (British Army) Target entity description: IV Corps (British Army) was a major British Army field formation that played a significant role on the Western Front during the First World War.
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A.
III Corps (British Army)
III Corps (British Army) was a major field formation of the British Army that served as part of the British Expeditionary Force during the early stages of World War II.
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B.
I Corps (British Army)
I Corps (British Army) was a major British field corps-level formation that played key roles in both World Wars, including operations in France in 1940 and the Normandy campaign in 1944.
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C.
II Corps (British Army)
II Corps (British Army) was a major field formation of the British Army that played a key role in early World War II operations, including the deployment of forces to France and the Dunkirk evacuation.
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D.
British I Corps
British I Corps was a major field formation of the British Army that saw significant service in both World Wars, notably during the D-Day landings and subsequent Northwest Europe campaigns.
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E.
IV Corps (British India)
IV Corps (British India) was a major British Indian Army field formation that played a key role in the Burma Campaign of World War II under the Fourteenth Army.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army corps
ⓘ
military formation ⓘ |
| allegiance | British Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Fourth Army Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commandStructure | corps-level command ⓘ |
| composition |
artillery units
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engineer units ⓘ infantry divisions ⓘ support services ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
ⓘ
surface form:
First World War
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| corpsNumber | IV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| engagementType |
defensive operations
ⓘ
offensive operations ⓘ trench warfare ⓘ |
| formedDuring | First World War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| garrisonDuringWar | field-based headquarters ⓘ |
| higherCommand | British Expeditionary Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | major British formation on the Western Front in World War I ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| notableActivity | coordination of multi-division operations ⓘ |
| notableCommander |
Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Anderson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lieutenant-General Sir George Harper NERFINISHED ⓘ Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Rawlinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEngagement |
Battle of Cambrai (1917)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Passchendaele NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of the Somme NERFINISHED ⓘ Hundred Days Offensive NERFINISHED ⓘ Spring Offensive (1918) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | operations on the Western Front in World War I ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Belgium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | British Army ⓘ |
| primaryOpponents | German Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | field corps headquarters ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | land forces ⓘ |
| theatreOfOperations | Western Front NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| type | field corps ⓘ |
| usedNumerals | Roman numerals ⓘ |
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: IV Corps (British Army) Description of subject: IV Corps (British Army) was a major British Army field formation that played a significant role on the Western Front during the First World War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.