393d Bombardment Squadron
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The 393d Bombardment Squadron was a U.S. Army Air Forces unit best known for flying the B-29 bombers that carried out the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 393d Bombardment Squadron canonical | 7 |
| 393d Bomb Squadron | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3358153 — 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: 393d Bombardment Squadron Context triple: [509th Composite Group, component, 393d Bombardment Squadron]
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349th Squadron
The 349th Squadron is a military aviation unit, likely part of an air force wing structure and responsible for specific operational flying missions.
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509th Composite Group
The 509th Composite Group was the U.S. Army Air Forces unit specially formed during World War II to conduct atomic bomb missions, including the deployment of the "Fat Man" bomb over Nagasaki.
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C.
97th Bombardment Group
The 97th Bombardment Group was a U.S. Army Air Forces unit in World War II, notable as one of the first American heavy bomber groups to operate in the European Theater.
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D.
23rd Fighter Group
The 23rd Fighter Group is a United States Army Air Forces unit formed in World War II that carried on the legacy and traditions of the famed Flying Tigers in the China-Burma-India theater.
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E.
412th Operations Group
The 412th Operations Group is a U.S. Air Force unit at Edwards Air Force Base responsible for planning, executing, and supporting flight test and evaluation missions for advanced aerospace systems.
- 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: 393d Bombardment Squadron Target entity description: The 393d Bombardment Squadron was a U.S. Army Air Forces unit best known for flying the B-29 bombers that carried out the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
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A.
349th Squadron
The 349th Squadron is a military aviation unit, likely part of an air force wing structure and responsible for specific operational flying missions.
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B.
509th Composite Group
The 509th Composite Group was the U.S. Army Air Forces unit specially formed during World War II to conduct atomic bomb missions, including the deployment of the "Fat Man" bomb over Nagasaki.
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C.
97th Bombardment Group
The 97th Bombardment Group was a U.S. Army Air Forces unit in World War II, notable as one of the first American heavy bomber groups to operate in the European Theater.
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D.
23rd Fighter Group
The 23rd Fighter Group is a United States Army Air Forces unit formed in World War II that carried on the legacy and traditions of the famed Flying Tigers in the China-Burma-India theater.
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E.
412th Operations Group
The 412th Operations Group is a U.S. Air Force unit at Edwards Air Force Base responsible for planning, executing, and supporting flight test and evaluation missions for advanced aerospace systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: 393d Bombardment Squadron Description of subject: The 393d Bombardment Squadron was a U.S. Army Air Forces unit best known for flying the B-29 bombers that carried out the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Frederick C. Bock
this entity surface form:
393d Bomb Squadron