28th Army
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The 28th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front during World War II, participating in major operations against Nazi Germany.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 28th Army canonical | 2 |
| 28th Red Army | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T990882 — 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: 28th Army Context triple: [3rd Belorussian Front, notableArmy, 28th Army]
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A.
43rd Army
The 43rd Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front during World War II, participating in major operations including the advance through Belarus and into East Prussia.
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B.
31st Army
The 31st Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that took part in major Eastern Front operations during World War II, including campaigns in Belarus and East Prussia.
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C.
38th Army (Red Army)
The 38th Army was a major field army of the Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II, participating in key operations in Ukraine and Central Europe.
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D.
37th Army (Red Army)
The 37th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front during World War II, participating in major defensive and offensive operations against Nazi Germany.
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E.
8th Guards Army
The 8th Guards Army was an elite Soviet Red Army formation renowned for its pivotal role in World War II, particularly in the Battle of Stalingrad and subsequent offensives into Eastern Europe and Germany.
- 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: 28th Army Target entity description: The 28th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front during World War II, participating in major operations against Nazi Germany.
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A.
43rd Army
The 43rd Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front during World War II, participating in major operations including the advance through Belarus and into East Prussia.
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B.
31st Army
The 31st Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that took part in major Eastern Front operations during World War II, including campaigns in Belarus and East Prussia.
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C.
38th Army (Red Army)
The 38th Army was a major field army of the Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II, participating in key operations in Ukraine and Central Europe.
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D.
37th Army (Red Army)
The 37th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front during World War II, participating in major defensive and offensive operations against Nazi Germany.
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E.
8th Guards Army
The 8th Guards Army was an elite Soviet Red Army formation renowned for its pivotal role in World War II, particularly in the Battle of Stalingrad and subsequent offensives into Eastern Europe and Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Red Army formation
ⓘ
Soviet military unit ⓘ field army ⓘ |
| activeDuring | World War II ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Soviet Union
ⓘ
surface form:
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
|
| belligerentIn |
Soviet-German Front
ⓘ
surface form:
German–Soviet War
|
| conflict |
Eastern Front
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Front of World War II
World War II ⓘ
surface form:
Second World War
|
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| engagement | operations on the Eastern Front ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
28th Army
ⓘ
surface form:
28th Red Army
28th Soviet Army ⓘ |
| historicalEra | 20th century ⓘ |
| languageOfCommand | Russian ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Ground forces ⓘ |
| notableFor | participation in major operations against Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| opponent |
Nazi Germany
ⓘ
Wehrmacht ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
defensive operations on the Eastern Front
ⓘ
offensive operations against Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| partOf | Red Army ⓘ |
| primaryEnemy | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Eastern Europe ⓘ |
| role | frontline combat operations ⓘ |
| service |
Red Army
ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet Red Army
|
| subordinateTo |
Stavka of the Red Army
ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet High Command
various Soviet fronts on the Eastern Front ⓘ |
| theater | Eastern Front ⓘ |
| type | combined arms army ⓘ |
| usedEquipmentFrom | Soviet Union ⓘ |
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: 28th Army Description of subject: The 28th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front during World War II, participating in major operations against Nazi Germany.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
28th Red Army