3rd Marine Aircraft Wing
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The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing is a major aviation unit of the United States Marine Corps that provides air support and combat aviation capabilities to Marine ground forces.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing canonical | 19 |
| 3rd MAW | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T467857 — 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: 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Context triple: [I Marine Expeditionary Force, hasPart, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing]
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A.
2nd Marine Aircraft Wing
The 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing is a major aviation unit of the United States Marine Corps that provides air support, assault support, and other aviation combat capabilities to Marine forces.
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B.
2nd Marine Logistics Group
The 2nd Marine Logistics Group is a major U.S. Marine Corps unit that provides comprehensive combat service support and logistics capabilities to Marine air-ground task forces, particularly those of II Marine Expeditionary Force.
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C.
24th Marine Expeditionary Unit
The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit is a rapid-response, sea-based U.S. Marine Corps task force capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and limited contingency missions worldwide.
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D.
22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit
The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit is a U.S. Marine Corps rapid-response, sea-based air-ground task force capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and limited contingency missions worldwide.
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E.
Marine Helicopter Squadron One
Marine Helicopter Squadron One is a United States Marine Corps unit responsible for providing helicopter transport for the President and other senior government officials.
- 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: 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Target entity description: The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing is a major aviation unit of the United States Marine Corps that provides air support and combat aviation capabilities to Marine ground forces.
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A.
2nd Marine Aircraft Wing
The 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing is a major aviation unit of the United States Marine Corps that provides air support, assault support, and other aviation combat capabilities to Marine forces.
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B.
2nd Marine Logistics Group
The 2nd Marine Logistics Group is a major U.S. Marine Corps unit that provides comprehensive combat service support and logistics capabilities to Marine air-ground task forces, particularly those of II Marine Expeditionary Force.
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C.
24th Marine Expeditionary Unit
The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit is a rapid-response, sea-based U.S. Marine Corps task force capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and limited contingency missions worldwide.
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D.
22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit
The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit is a U.S. Marine Corps rapid-response, sea-based air-ground task force capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and limited contingency missions worldwide.
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E.
Marine Helicopter Squadron One
Marine Helicopter Squadron One is a United States Marine Corps unit responsible for providing helicopter transport for the President and other senior government officials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Marine Corps aviation wing
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military unit ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
3rd Marine Aircraft Wing
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
3rd MAW
|
| aircraftTypeOperated |
attack aircraft
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fighter aircraft ⓘ helicopters ⓘ tiltrotor aircraft ⓘ transport aircraft ⓘ unmanned aerial vehicles ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| commandStructure |
United States Marine Corps Forces, Pacific
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surface form:
Marine Corps Forces, Pacific
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| component |
Marine Air Control Group 38
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Marine Aircraft Group 11 ⓘ Marine Aircraft Group 13 ⓘ Marine Aircraft Group 16 ⓘ Marine Aircraft Group 39 ⓘ Marine Wing Support Group 37 ⓘ |
| conflict |
Global War on Terrorism
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Gulf War ⓘ Iraq War ⓘ Korean War ⓘ Vietnam War ⓘ War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) ⓘ World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| garrisonCity |
San Diego, California, United States
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surface form:
San Diego, California
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| garrisonLocation | Marine Corps Air Station Miramar ⓘ |
| garrisonState |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
|
| higherFormation | I Marine Expeditionary Force ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| motto | “Third MAW – Forward, Faithful, Focused” ⓘ |
| nickname |
3rd Marine Aircraft Wing
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
3rd MAW
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| operationalFocus |
amphibious operations support
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expeditionary operations ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States Marine Corps Forces, Pacific
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surface form:
Fleet Marine Force, Pacific
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| primaryMission |
provide combat-ready expeditionary aviation forces
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support I Marine Expeditionary Force with aviation combat power ⓘ |
| role |
Aviation Combat Element
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surface form:
Marine air-ground task force aviation combat element
aerial reconnaissance ⓘ assault support ⓘ conduct defensive air operations ⓘ conduct offensive air operations ⓘ control of aircraft and missiles ⓘ electronic warfare ⓘ provide air support to Marine ground forces ⓘ |
| service | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| supports |
I Marine Expeditionary Force
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surface form:
I Marine Expeditionary Force ground combat element
Marine Air-Ground Task Forces ⓘ
surface form:
Marine Air-Ground Task Force
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| type | Marine aircraft wing ⓘ |
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: 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Description of subject: The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing is a major aviation unit of the United States Marine Corps that provides air support and combat aviation capabilities to Marine ground forces.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
3rd MAW
this entity surface form:
3rd MAW
subject surface form:
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar