Operation Mad Ball
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Operation Mad Ball is a 1957 military comedy film directed by Richard Quine, centered on U.S. Army soldiers scheming to throw an unauthorized party in a strictly regulated post–World War II camp.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Operation Mad Ball canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5348680 — 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: Operation Mad Ball Context triple: [Richard Quine, notableWork, Operation Mad Ball]
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A.
Operation Slapstick
Operation Slapstick was a World War II Allied amphibious landing at the Italian port of Taranto in September 1943, conducted as part of the broader Italian Campaign following Italy’s armistice.
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B.
Operation Wunderland
Operation Wunderland was a World War II German Kriegsmarine naval operation in the Arctic aimed at disrupting Soviet shipping and naval forces along the Northern Sea Route.
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C.
Operation Diadem
Operation Diadem was a major Allied offensive in Italy during World War II aimed at breaking the German Gustav Line and enabling the liberation of Rome.
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D.
Operation Blockbuster
Operation Blockbuster was a major Allied offensive in early 1945 aimed at breaking through German defenses in the Rhineland during the final stages of World War II.
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E.
Operation Mandrel
Operation Mandrel was a series of U.S. nuclear weapons tests conducted during the Cold War as part of the broader American nuclear testing program.
- 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: Operation Mad Ball Target entity description: Operation Mad Ball is a 1957 military comedy film directed by Richard Quine, centered on U.S. Army soldiers scheming to throw an unauthorized party in a strictly regulated post–World War II camp.
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A.
Operation Slapstick
Operation Slapstick was a World War II Allied amphibious landing at the Italian port of Taranto in September 1943, conducted as part of the broader Italian Campaign following Italy’s armistice.
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B.
Operation Wunderland
Operation Wunderland was a World War II German Kriegsmarine naval operation in the Arctic aimed at disrupting Soviet shipping and naval forces along the Northern Sea Route.
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C.
Operation Diadem
Operation Diadem was a major Allied offensive in Italy during World War II aimed at breaking the German Gustav Line and enabling the liberation of Rome.
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D.
Operation Blockbuster
Operation Blockbuster was a major Allied offensive in early 1945 aimed at breaking through German defenses in the Rhineland during the final stages of World War II.
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E.
Operation Mandrel
Operation Mandrel was a series of U.S. nuclear weapons tests conducted during the Cold War as part of the broader American nuclear testing program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Operation Mad Ball Description of subject: Operation Mad Ball is a 1957 military comedy film directed by Richard Quine, centered on U.S. Army soldiers scheming to throw an unauthorized party in a strictly regulated post–World War II camp.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.