12th Canadian Infantry Brigade
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The 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade was a World War I formation of the Canadian Expeditionary Force that served on the Western Front as part of the 4th Canadian Division.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9365115 — 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: 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade Context triple: [Canadian infantry brigades, notableExample, 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade]
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A.
11th Canadian Infantry Brigade
The 11th Canadian Infantry Brigade was a World War II formation of the Canadian Army that served as the infantry component of an armoured division in the Italian Campaign and Northwest Europe.
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B.
10th Canadian Infantry Brigade
The 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade was a World War II formation of the Canadian Army that served in Northwest Europe as part of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division.
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C.
2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade
The 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade was a key frontline formation of the Canadian Army that saw extensive combat service in major campaigns during the World Wars.
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D.
7th Canadian Infantry Brigade
The 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade was a World War II Canadian Army formation that played a key role in the Normandy landings and subsequent Northwest Europe campaigns.
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E.
6th Canadian Infantry Brigade
The 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade was a World War II-era formation of the Canadian Army that fought as part of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division in major campaigns in Northwest Europe.
- 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: 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade Target entity description: The 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade was a World War I formation of the Canadian Expeditionary Force that served on the Western Front as part of the 4th Canadian Division.
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A.
11th Canadian Infantry Brigade
The 11th Canadian Infantry Brigade was a World War II formation of the Canadian Army that served as the infantry component of an armoured division in the Italian Campaign and Northwest Europe.
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B.
10th Canadian Infantry Brigade
The 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade was a World War II formation of the Canadian Army that served in Northwest Europe as part of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division.
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C.
2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade
The 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade was a key frontline formation of the Canadian Army that saw extensive combat service in major campaigns during the World Wars.
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D.
7th Canadian Infantry Brigade
The 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade was a World War II Canadian Army formation that played a key role in the Normandy landings and subsequent Northwest Europe campaigns.
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E.
6th Canadian Infantry Brigade
The 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade was a World War II-era formation of the Canadian Army that fought as part of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division in major campaigns in Northwest Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian Expeditionary Force formation
ⓘ
World War I military unit ⓘ infantry brigade ⓘ |
| allegiance | Canadian Expeditionary Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | British Expeditionary Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | Canadian Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
ⓘ
surface form:
First World War
|
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| countryDuringService | Dominion of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| forceType | infantry ⓘ |
| formedFor | service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force ⓘ |
| hasDesignation | 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locationOfActivity |
Belgium
NERFINISHED
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France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRole | frontline infantry operations ⓘ |
| notableFor | service on the Western Front in World War I ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Western Front campaigns of World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
4th Canadian Division
NERFINISHED
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Canadian Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | land forces ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
4th Canadian Division
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canadian Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatreOfOperations | Western Front NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade Description of subject: The 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade was a World War I formation of the Canadian Expeditionary Force that served on the Western Front as part of the 4th Canadian Division.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.