Weather Underground
E490552
Weather Underground was a radical left-wing militant organization active in the United States during the late 1960s and 1970s, known for its opposition to the Vietnam War and its use of bombings and other direct actions to protest government policies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Weather Underground canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5054854 — 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: Weather Underground Context triple: [You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, inspiredNameOf, Weather Underground]
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A.
Google Weather
Google Weather is a built-in Google service that provides current conditions, forecasts, and related meteorological data within Google’s apps and interfaces.
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B.
Weather Report
Weather Report was a pioneering American jazz fusion band formed in the early 1970s, known for its innovative blend of jazz, rock, and world music and for featuring prominent musicians like Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul.
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C.
WeatherNation TV
WeatherNation TV is an American television network that provides around-the-clock weather news, forecasts, and related programming across the United States.
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D.
Fox Weather
Fox Weather is a U.S.-based weather-focused streaming and digital service providing forecasts, radar, and meteorological coverage under the Fox media brand.
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E.
Weather Book
Weather Book is a 19th-century meteorological work by Admiral Robert FitzRoy that explains weather forecasting and atmospheric science for sailors and the general public.
- 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: Weather Underground Target entity description: Weather Underground was a radical left-wing militant organization active in the United States during the late 1960s and 1970s, known for its opposition to the Vietnam War and its use of bombings and other direct actions to protest government policies.
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A.
Google Weather
Google Weather is a built-in Google service that provides current conditions, forecasts, and related meteorological data within Google’s apps and interfaces.
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B.
Weather Report
Weather Report was a pioneering American jazz fusion band formed in the early 1970s, known for its innovative blend of jazz, rock, and world music and for featuring prominent musicians like Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul.
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C.
WeatherNation TV
WeatherNation TV is an American television network that provides around-the-clock weather news, forecasts, and related programming across the United States.
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D.
Fox Weather
Fox Weather is a U.S.-based weather-focused streaming and digital service providing forecasts, radar, and meteorological coverage under the Fox media brand.
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E.
Weather Book
Weather Book is a 19th-century meteorological work by Admiral Robert FitzRoy that explains weather forecasting and atmospheric science for sailors and the general public.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American clandestine organization
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radical left-wing militant organization ⓘ |
| activePeriodEnd | late 1970s ⓘ |
| activePeriodStart | late 1960s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Weather Underground Organization
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Weatherman ⓘ |
| communicationMethod | public communiqués claiming responsibility for bombings ⓘ |
| considered | domestic terrorist organization by U.S. authorities ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| goal |
overthrow of U.S. government capitalism and imperialism
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support for global revolutionary movements ⓘ |
| ideology |
Marxism
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anti-imperialism ⓘ far-left ⓘ revolutionary socialism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Black Power movement
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Cuban Revolution ⓘ anti-colonial liberation movements ⓘ |
| legalStatus | subject to FBI investigations ⓘ |
| movement | New Left ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Bob Dylan lyric "You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" ⓘ |
| notableAction |
bombing of the Pentagon in 1972
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bombing of the U.S. Capitol in 1971 ⓘ bombing of the U.S. State Department in 1975 ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in 1970 ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Bernardine Dohrn
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Bill Ayers ⓘ Cathy Wilkerson ⓘ David Gilbert ⓘ Jeff Jones ⓘ Kathy Boudin ⓘ Mark Rudd ⓘ Naomi Jaffe ⓘ |
| opposed |
U.S. government policies during Vietnam War era
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Vietnam War ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Students for a Democratic Society ⓘ |
| partOf | 1960s counterculture era in the United States ⓘ |
| positionOnViolence | claimed to avoid loss of human life in bombings ⓘ |
| separatedFrom | Students for a Democratic Society ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| targeted |
corporate offices
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government buildings ⓘ police facilities ⓘ |
| usedTactic |
bombings
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communiqués ⓘ property destruction ⓘ underground organizing ⓘ |
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: Weather Underground Description of subject: Weather Underground was a radical left-wing militant organization active in the United States during the late 1960s and 1970s, known for its opposition to the Vietnam War and its use of bombings and other direct actions to protest government policies.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
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inspiredNameOf
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Weather Underground
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