United States Army Band
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The United States Army Band is the premier musical organization of the U.S. Army, known for performing ceremonial, patriotic, and concert music at official military and national events.
All labels observed (13)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4080200 — 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: United States Army Band Context triple: [The Army Goes Rolling Along, performer, United States Army Band]
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Air Force Band
The Air Force Band is the premier musical organization of the United States Air Force, performing ceremonial, patriotic, and public concerts worldwide to represent the Air Force and the nation.
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United States Marine Band
The United States Marine Band is the premier musical ensemble of the U.S. Marine Corps, renowned as "The President's Own" for its role in performing at White House and state ceremonies.
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U.S. military bands
U.S. military bands are professional musical ensembles of the United States Armed Forces that perform ceremonial, patriotic, and public concerts to represent and promote the military at home and abroad.
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D.
John Philip Sousa Band
The John Philip Sousa Band was a famous American concert band led by composer and conductor John Philip Sousa, renowned for its patriotic marches and extensive touring in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps
The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps is a premier U.S. Army ceremonial musical unit that performs 18th-century-style martial music in period uniforms for official military and public events.
- 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: United States Army Band Target entity description: The United States Army Band is the premier musical organization of the U.S. Army, known for performing ceremonial, patriotic, and concert music at official military and national events.
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A.
Air Force Band
The Air Force Band is the premier musical organization of the United States Air Force, performing ceremonial, patriotic, and public concerts worldwide to represent the Air Force and the nation.
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B.
United States Marine Band
The United States Marine Band is the premier musical ensemble of the U.S. Marine Corps, renowned as "The President's Own" for its role in performing at White House and state ceremonies.
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C.
U.S. military bands
U.S. military bands are professional musical ensembles of the United States Armed Forces that perform ceremonial, patriotic, and public concerts to represent and promote the military at home and abroad.
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D.
John Philip Sousa Band
The John Philip Sousa Band was a famous American concert band led by composer and conductor John Philip Sousa, renowned for its patriotic marches and extensive touring in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps
The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps is a premier U.S. Army ceremonial musical unit that performs 18th-century-style martial music in period uniforms for official military and public events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military band
ⓘ
music ensemble ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Pershing's Own ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | musicians of the United States Army ⓘ |
| foundedBy | John J. Pershing ⓘ |
| genre |
ceremonial music
ⓘ
concert band music ⓘ military music ⓘ patriotic music ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.usarmyband.com/ ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Army Blues
ⓘ
U.S. military bands ⓘ
surface form:
Army Strings
Brass Quintet ⓘ Downrange ⓘ Herald Trumpets ⓘ United States Army Band self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
United States Army Ceremonial Band
United States Army Band self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
United States Army Concert Band
Woodwind Quintet ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall ⓘ |
| inception | 1922 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Arlington, Virginia
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Virginia ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| notableCommander |
Colonel Andrew J. Esch
ⓘ
Colonel Thomas Rotondi Jr. ⓘ Hugh J. Curry NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel R. Loboda ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States Army Band
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Army Band Program
United States Army Military District of Washington ⓘ |
| performerOf |
Hail to the Chief
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The Star-Spangled Banner ⓘ military marches ⓘ service songs of the U.S. armed forces ⓘ |
| performsAt |
military change-of-command ceremonies
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military retirement ceremonies ⓘ national ceremonies in Washington, D.C. ⓘ official state visits ⓘ presidential inaugurations ⓘ public concerts ⓘ state funerals ⓘ |
| primaryRole |
ceremonial support
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musical support to senior Army leadership ⓘ public outreach ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
performed at multiple U.S. presidential inaugurations
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performed at state funerals at Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ |
| wears | United States Army dress uniform ⓘ |
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: United States Army Band Description of subject: The United States Army Band is the premier musical organization of the U.S. Army, known for performing ceremonial, patriotic, and concert music at official military and national events.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
United States Army Field Band
this entity surface form:
United States Army band
this entity surface form:
The U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own"
this entity surface form:
The U.S. Army Ceremonial Band
this entity surface form:
U.S. Army Band "Pershing’s Own"
this entity surface form:
United States Army Band "Pershing's Own"
this entity surface form:
United States Army Band Program
this entity surface form:
Army Band Branch
this entity surface form:
United States Army bands
this entity surface form:
The United States Army Band "Pershing's Own"
this entity surface form:
The United States Army Band "Pershing's Own"
this entity surface form:
United States Army Concert Band
this entity surface form:
United States Army Ceremonial Band
this entity surface form:
United States Army Band Program