Facta Non Verba
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Facta Non Verba is the Latin motto of Canada's elite special operations unit Joint Task Force 2, emphasizing action over words.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Facta Non Verba canonical | 1 |
| “Facta Non Verba” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8128058 — 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: Facta Non Verba Context triple: [Joint Task Force 2, motto, Facta Non Verba]
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A.
The Challenge of Facts
"The Challenge of Facts" is an influential essay by American sociologist and classical liberal thinker William Graham Sumner that critiques moralistic interference in social and economic processes and defends empirical, scientific analysis of society.
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B.
Acta Non Verba
Acta Non Verba is the Latin motto of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, emphasizing the primacy of actions over words.
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C.
The History of Truth
"The History of Truth" is a poem by W. H. Auden that reflects his characteristic blend of philosophical reflection, moral inquiry, and historical perspective.
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D.
Before the Fact
Before the Fact is a 1932 psychological crime novel by Anthony Berkeley Cox (writing as Francis Iles), best known as the dark, suspenseful source material for Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Suspicion."
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E.
Acriter et Fideliter
Acriter et Fideliter is the Latin motto of the Pontifical Swiss Guard, expressing their commitment to serve the Pope with courage and fidelity.
- 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: Facta Non Verba Target entity description: Facta Non Verba is the Latin motto of Canada's elite special operations unit Joint Task Force 2, emphasizing action over words.
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A.
The Challenge of Facts
"The Challenge of Facts" is an influential essay by American sociologist and classical liberal thinker William Graham Sumner that critiques moralistic interference in social and economic processes and defends empirical, scientific analysis of society.
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B.
Acta Non Verba
Acta Non Verba is the Latin motto of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, emphasizing the primacy of actions over words.
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C.
The History of Truth
"The History of Truth" is a poem by W. H. Auden that reflects his characteristic blend of philosophical reflection, moral inquiry, and historical perspective.
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D.
Before the Fact
Before the Fact is a 1932 psychological crime novel by Anthony Berkeley Cox (writing as Francis Iles), best known as the dark, suspenseful source material for Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Suspicion."
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E.
Acriter et Fideliter
Acriter et Fideliter is the Latin motto of the Pontifical Swiss Guard, expressing their commitment to serve the Pope with courage and fidelity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin phrase
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motto ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Canadian Armed Forces
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linked to:
Canadian forces
Canadian special operations forces ⓘ |
| category | military motto ⓘ |
| countryOfUse | Canada ⓘ |
| emphasizes | action over words ⓘ |
| hasMoral | people should be judged by actions rather than speech ⓘ |
| hasWord |
Facta
ⓘ
Non ⓘ Verba ⓘ |
| isPartOf | tradition of Latin military mottos ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| meaningInEnglish |
Actions, not words
ⓘ
Deeds, not words ⓘ |
| mottoOf | Joint Task Force 2 ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| shortFormOf | Facta non verba, sed res ⓘ |
| theme |
decisive action
ⓘ
pragmatism ⓘ |
| usedBy | Joint Task Force 2 ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
military ethos
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special operations ⓘ |
| wordCount | 3 ⓘ |
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: Facta Non Verba Description of subject: Facta Non Verba is the Latin motto of Canada's elite special operations unit Joint Task Force 2, emphasizing action over words.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.