Mimoyecques V-3 site

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Nazi secret weapon site World War II military installation underground military complex

The Mimoyecques V-3 site was a secret Nazi underground complex in northern France built to house long-range V-3 superguns intended to bombard London during World War II.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Mimoyecques V-3 site canonical	1
Mimoyecques underground complex	1
V-weapon sites in France	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5035754 — 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: Mimoyecques V-3 site
Context triple: [Tallboy bomb, notableTarget, Mimoyecques V-3 site]

A. Douaumont Ossuary
Douaumont Ossuary is a monumental World War I memorial and cemetery in northeastern France that houses the remains of thousands of unidentified French and German soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun.
B. Valmy
Valmy is a village in northeastern France historically renowned as the site of the pivotal 1792 Battle of Valmy during the French Revolutionary Wars.
C. Fort Douaumont
Fort Douaumont is a massive French fortress near Verdun that became a focal point of intense fighting and a symbol of the brutal attrition warfare during World War I.
D. Fortified Sector of Thionville
The Fortified Sector of Thionville was a key stretch of the Maginot Line in northeastern France, comprising major fortifications such as Fort Hackenberg to defend against German invasion before and during World War II.
E. Vatry Air Base
Vatry Air Base is a former French military airfield in the Marne department that has been converted into a civilian cargo-focused airport now known as Châlons Vatry Airport.
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: Mimoyecques V-3 site
Target entity description: The Mimoyecques V-3 site was a secret Nazi underground complex in northern France built to house long-range V-3 superguns intended to bombard London during World War II.

A. Douaumont Ossuary
Douaumont Ossuary is a monumental World War I memorial and cemetery in northeastern France that houses the remains of thousands of unidentified French and German soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun.
B. Valmy
Valmy is a village in northeastern France historically renowned as the site of the pivotal 1792 Battle of Valmy during the French Revolutionary Wars.
C. Fort Douaumont
Fort Douaumont is a massive French fortress near Verdun that became a focal point of intense fighting and a symbol of the brutal attrition warfare during World War I.
D. Fortified Sector of Thionville
The Fortified Sector of Thionville was a key stretch of the Maginot Line in northeastern France, comprising major fortifications such as Fort Hackenberg to defend against German invasion before and during World War II.
E. Vatry Air Base
Vatry Air Base is a former French military airfield in the Marne department that has been converted into a civilian cargo-focused airport now known as Châlons Vatry Airport.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nazi secret weapon site ⓘ World War II military installation ⓘ underground military complex ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Forteresse de Mimoyecques ⓘ Mimoyecques underground complex ⓘ linked to: Mimoyecques V-3 site
armament	V-3 cannon ⓘ multi-chamber supergun ⓘ
associatedWeapon	Hochdruckpumpe (High Pressure Pump) ⓘ
bombedBy	Royal Air Force ⓘ United States Army Air Forces ⓘ
builtFor	V-3 supergun ⓘ linked to: V-3 cannon long-range bombardment of London ⓘ strategic bombardment of the United Kingdom ⓘ
category	World War II museum in France ⓘ
conflict	Second World War ⓘ linked to: World War II
constructionEnd	1944 ⓘ
constructionStart	1943 ⓘ
continent	Europe ⓘ
controlledBy	Wehrmacht ⓘ
country	France ⓘ
designedBy	German engineers ⓘ
designedRange	approximately 165 km ⓘ
distanceToLondon	about 165 km ⓘ
era	World War II ⓘ
heavilyDamagedIn	1944 ⓘ
heritageStatus	historical site ⓘ
laborSource	forced labor ⓘ prisoners of war ⓘ
locatedIn	Landrethun-le-Nord ⓘ Pas-de-Calais ⓘ northern France ⓘ
locatedInRegion	Hauts-de-France ⓘ
locatedNear	Calais ⓘ
locatedOn	Channel coast ⓘ
notableAttack	Tallboy earthquake bomb raid ⓘ
openToPublic	yes ⓘ
operator	Organisation Todt ⓘ
partOf	German cross-Channel gun batteries ⓘ V-weapons program ⓘ
postwarUse	museum ⓘ
purpose	bombardment of London ⓘ terror weapon ⓘ
status	never fully operational ⓘ
strategicRole	planned long-range artillery site against Britain ⓘ
targetCity	London ⓘ linked to: London, England
tunnels	extensive underground galleries ⓘ
usedBy	Nazi Germany ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tallboy bomb → notableTarget → Mimoyecques V-3 site ⓘ

Mimoyecques V-3 site → alsoKnownAs → Mimoyecques underground complex ⓘ

linked to: Mimoyecques V-3 site

Bauvorhaben 21 → relatedTo → V-weapon sites in France ⓘ