179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
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The 179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army artillery unit that served as a field regiment providing fire support within the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division during the Second World War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3192457 — 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: 179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery Context triple: [43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division, componentUnit, 179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery]
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112th (Wessex) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 112th (Wessex) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army Territorial Army artillery unit that served as a divisional field regiment during the Second World War.
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B.
153rd (Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 153rd (Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army artillery unit formed from the Leicestershire Yeomanry that served with distinction during the Second World War.
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C.
Royal Regiment of Artillery
The Royal Regiment of Artillery is the artillery arm of the British Army, responsible for providing firepower support using guns, rockets, and missiles on the battlefield.
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D.
94th (Dorset and Hampshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 94th (Dorset and Hampshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army Territorial Army artillery unit formed from yeomanry cavalry regiments that served with distinction in North-West Europe during the Second World War.
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E.
59th (Wessex) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 59th (Wessex) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Territorial Army unit that provided dedicated anti-tank artillery support during the Second World War.
- 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: 179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery Target entity description: The 179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army artillery unit that served as a field regiment providing fire support within the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division during the Second World War.
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A.
112th (Wessex) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 112th (Wessex) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army Territorial Army artillery unit that served as a divisional field regiment during the Second World War.
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B.
153rd (Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 153rd (Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army artillery unit formed from the Leicestershire Yeomanry that served with distinction during the Second World War.
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C.
Royal Regiment of Artillery
The Royal Regiment of Artillery is the artillery arm of the British Army, responsible for providing firepower support using guns, rockets, and missiles on the battlefield.
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D.
94th (Dorset and Hampshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 94th (Dorset and Hampshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army Territorial Army artillery unit formed from yeomanry cavalry regiments that served with distinction in North-West Europe during the Second World War.
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E.
59th (Wessex) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 59th (Wessex) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Territorial Army unit that provided dedicated anti-tank artillery support during the Second World War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army unit
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Royal Artillery regiment ⓘ artillery regiment ⓘ field regiment ⓘ |
| activeDuring | World War II ⓘ |
| allegiance | British Crown ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Wessex region
ⓘ
surface form:
Wessex
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| branch |
British Army
ⓘ
Royal Regiment of Artillery ⓘ
surface form:
Royal Artillery
|
| conflict |
World War II
ⓘ
surface form:
Second World War
|
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| garrisonCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasCapability |
field gun deployment
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indirect fire ⓘ |
| militaryBranchRole | divisional artillery ⓘ |
| militaryFormationType | field regiment ⓘ |
| notableFunction | provided artillery support to infantry units of 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division ⓘ |
| partOf | 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division ⓘ |
| role |
field artillery
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fire support ⓘ |
| service | British Army ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division
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Royal Regiment of Artillery ⓘ
surface form:
Royal Artillery
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| theatreOfOperations | European theatre of World War II ⓘ |
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: 179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery Description of subject: The 179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was a British Army artillery unit that served as a field regiment providing fire support within the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division during the Second World War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.