Magnificent Bastards
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Magnificent Bastards is the storied nickname of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, renowned for its combat history and fighting spirit.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Magnificent Bastards canonical | 5 |
| The Magnificent Bastards | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3199137 — 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: Magnificent Bastards Context triple: [2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, nickname, Magnificent Bastards]
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A.
The Pillage
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B.
Los Ilicitanos
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C.
Skirmishes of an Untimely Man
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D.
The Fratricide
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E.
The Bravados
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- 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: Magnificent Bastards Target entity description: Magnificent Bastards is the storied nickname of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, renowned for its combat history and fighting spirit.
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A.
The Pillage
The Pillage is the 1998 debut solo studio album by Wu-Tang Clan affiliate Cappadonna, known for its gritty East Coast hip-hop sound and strong ties to the Wu-Tang collective.
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B.
Los Ilicitanos
Los Ilicitanos is the traditional nickname of Spanish football club Elche CF, referring to the people of the city of Elche (Elx) in the Valencian Community.
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C.
Skirmishes of an Untimely Man
Skirmishes of an Untimely Man is a section of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical work *Twilight of the Idols* in which he presents a series of brief, polemical reflections critiquing contemporary culture, morality, and philosophy.
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D.
The Fratricide
The Fratricide is a dramatic painting by Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela that depicts a violent, emotionally charged scene of brother killing brother, reflecting themes of guilt and moral conflict.
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E.
The Bravados
The Bravados is a 1958 American Western film starring Gregory Peck as a vengeful rancher hunting down a group of escaped convicts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Marine Corps unit
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infantry battalion ⓘ military unit nickname ⓘ nickname ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| appliedTo |
2nd Battalion, 4th Marines
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surface form:
U.S. Marine Corps’ 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines
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| associatedWith |
combat history of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines
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fighting spirit of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines ⓘ |
| branch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| connotation | elite fighting spirit ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfUse |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| domain | military ⓘ |
| hasMotto | Magnificent Bastards self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Magnificent Bastards ⓘ |
| knownFor |
combat history
ⓘ
fighting spirit ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Marine infantry ⓘ |
| notableFor | storied nickname ⓘ |
| partOf |
4th Marine Regiment
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United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| refersTo | 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines ⓘ |
| role |
amphibious assault
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expeditionary warfare ⓘ ground combat ⓘ |
| service | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| type | infantry ⓘ |
| usedBy |
2nd Battalion, 4th Marines
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surface form:
Marines of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines
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| usedIn | U.S. Marine Corps culture ⓘ |
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: Magnificent Bastards Description of subject: Magnificent Bastards is the storied nickname of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, renowned for its combat history and fighting spirit.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
2nd Battalion, 4th Marines
subject surface form:
2nd Battalion, 4th Marines
this entity surface form:
The Magnificent Bastards
subject surface form:
2nd Battalion, 4th Marines
subject surface form:
2nd Battalion, 4th Marines
subject surface form:
2nd Battalion, 4th Marines