Mk 84 bomb
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The Mk 84 bomb is a 2,000-pound class general-purpose unguided bomb widely used by the U.S. and allied air forces as the warhead basis for various precision-guided munitions.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mk 84 bomb canonical | 3 |
| GBU-10 Paveway II | 1 |
| Mark 84 Mod 6 bomb | 1 |
| Mark 84 bomb | 1 |
| Mk 84 GP bomb | 1 |
| Mk 84 general-purpose bomb | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T615259 — 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: Mk 84 bomb Context triple: [Paveway series guided bombs, compatibleWith, Mk 84 bomb]
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A.
Mk 83 bomb
The Mk 83 bomb is a 1,000-pound class general-purpose unguided aerial bomb widely used by military aircraft and often employed as the warhead for various precision-guided munition systems.
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B.
Mk 82 bomb
The Mk 82 bomb is a widely used 500-pound general-purpose unguided aerial bomb that serves as the standard warhead for many precision-guided munitions.
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C.
Paveway series guided bombs
Paveway series guided bombs are laser-guided precision munitions designed to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of conventional unguided bombs against ground targets.
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D.
Brimstone missile
The Brimstone missile is a British air-launched, precision-guided anti-armor and multi-role strike weapon designed for high accuracy against moving and static targets with minimal collateral damage.
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E.
Tomahawk cruise missile
The Tomahawk cruise missile is a long-range, precision-guided, subsonic missile widely used by the U.S. and allied navies for land-attack missions.
- 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: Mk 84 bomb Target entity description: The Mk 84 bomb is a 2,000-pound class general-purpose unguided bomb widely used by the U.S. and allied air forces as the warhead basis for various precision-guided munitions.
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A.
Mk 83 bomb
The Mk 83 bomb is a 1,000-pound class general-purpose unguided aerial bomb widely used by military aircraft and often employed as the warhead for various precision-guided munition systems.
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B.
Mk 82 bomb
The Mk 82 bomb is a widely used 500-pound general-purpose unguided aerial bomb that serves as the standard warhead for many precision-guided munitions.
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C.
Paveway series guided bombs
Paveway series guided bombs are laser-guided precision munitions designed to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of conventional unguided bombs against ground targets.
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D.
Brimstone missile
The Brimstone missile is a British air-launched, precision-guided anti-armor and multi-role strike weapon designed for high accuracy against moving and static targets with minimal collateral damage.
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E.
Tomahawk cruise missile
The Tomahawk cruise missile is a long-range, precision-guided, subsonic missile widely used by the U.S. and allied navies for land-attack missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
air-dropped bomb
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conventional weapon ⓘ general-purpose bomb ⓘ unguided bomb ⓘ |
| canBeConvertedTo | precision-guided munition ⓘ |
| canBeFittedWith |
nose fuze
ⓘ
proximity fuze ⓘ tail fuze ⓘ |
| compatibleWith | multiple U.S. and NATO aircraft ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| designedFor | tactical aircraft ⓘ |
| diameter | approximately 457 mm ⓘ |
| dragCharacteristic | low-drag ⓘ |
| explosiveType | high explosive ⓘ |
| family |
Mark 80 series bombs
ⓘ
surface form:
Mark 80 low-drag general-purpose bombs
|
| filling |
Composition H6
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PBXN-109 ⓘ Tritonal ⓘ |
| fillingMass |
approximately 429 kg
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approximately 945 lb ⓘ |
| guidance | unguided in basic form ⓘ |
| introducedInPeriod |
Vietnam War
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surface form:
Vietnam War era
|
| length | approximately 3.84 m ⓘ |
| mass |
2000 lb class
ⓘ
approximately 907 kg ⓘ |
| natoDesignation |
Mk 84 bomb
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mk 84 GP bomb
|
| partOf | Mark 80 series ⓘ |
| role | general-purpose blast-fragmentation ⓘ |
| typicalTargets |
bridges
ⓘ
hardened structures ⓘ industrial facilities ⓘ runways ⓘ |
| usedAsWarheadFor |
AGM-130
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GBU-10 Paveway II ⓘ BLU-109 bomb ⓘ
surface form:
GBU-15
GBU-24 Paveway III ⓘ GBU-27 Paveway III ⓘ GBU-32 JDAM ⓘ
surface form:
GBU-31 JDAM
GBU-56 LJDAM ⓘ |
| usedBy |
United States Air Force
ⓘ
United States Marine Corps ⓘ United States Navy ⓘ allied air forces ⓘ |
| usedInConflict |
Gulf War
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Iraq War ⓘ Vietnam War ⓘ War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) ⓘ |
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: Mk 84 bomb Description of subject: The Mk 84 bomb is a 2,000-pound class general-purpose unguided bomb widely used by the U.S. and allied air forces as the warhead basis for various precision-guided munitions.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
GBU-10 Paveway II
this entity surface form:
Mk 84 GP bomb
this entity surface form:
Mark 84 bomb
this entity surface form:
Mark 84 Mod 6 bomb
this entity surface form:
Mk 84 general-purpose bomb