W52 warhead
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The W52 warhead was a U.S. thermonuclear warhead developed during the Cold War for use in intermediate-range ballistic missiles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| W52 warhead canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10223499 — 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: W52 warhead Context triple: [Nuclear bombs of the United States, hasPart, W52 warhead]
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A.
W51 warhead
The W51 warhead was a planned but never deployed American thermonuclear warhead design developed during the Cold War.
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B.
W56 warhead
The W56 warhead is a high-yield thermonuclear warhead developed by the United States during the Cold War, primarily deployed on Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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C.
W62 warhead
The W62 warhead is a U.S. thermonuclear warhead developed during the Cold War for use on intercontinental ballistic missiles, notably the Minuteman III.
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D.
W47 warhead
The W47 warhead was a compact American thermonuclear warhead designed primarily for deployment on Polaris submarine-launched ballistic missiles during the Cold War.
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E.
W50 warhead
The W50 warhead is a compact, high-yield thermonuclear warhead developed by the United States during the Cold War, primarily used on the MGM-31 Pershing missile system.
- 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: W52 warhead Target entity description: The W52 warhead was a U.S. thermonuclear warhead developed during the Cold War for use in intermediate-range ballistic missiles.
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A.
W51 warhead
The W51 warhead was a planned but never deployed American thermonuclear warhead design developed during the Cold War.
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B.
W56 warhead
The W56 warhead is a high-yield thermonuclear warhead developed by the United States during the Cold War, primarily deployed on Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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C.
W62 warhead
The W62 warhead is a U.S. thermonuclear warhead developed during the Cold War for use on intercontinental ballistic missiles, notably the Minuteman III.
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D.
W47 warhead
The W47 warhead was a compact American thermonuclear warhead designed primarily for deployment on Polaris submarine-launched ballistic missiles during the Cold War.
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E.
W50 warhead
The W50 warhead is a compact, high-yield thermonuclear warhead developed by the United States during the Cold War, primarily used on the MGM-31 Pershing missile system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | thermonuclear warhead ⓘ |
| associatedMissileFamily | Pershing missile system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictContext | Cold War nuclear arms race ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| deliverySystemType | ballistic missile ⓘ |
| deploymentPlatform | land-based missile ⓘ |
| designCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedFor | intermediate-range ballistic missile ⓘ |
| designPurpose | strategic deterrence ⓘ |
| era | Cold War ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | U.S. Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nuclearWeaponType | thermonuclear ⓘ |
| propulsionContext | solid-fueled missile system ⓘ |
| rangeCategory | intermediate-range ⓘ |
| role | theater-level nuclear weapon ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| strategicRole | nuclear deterrent in Europe ⓘ |
| usedIn |
MGM-31A Pershing I
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MGM-31B Pershing I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| user | United States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| warheadClass | intermediate-range ballistic missile warhead ⓘ |
| weaponCategory |
strategic nuclear warhead
ⓘ
tactical nuclear warhead ⓘ |
| yieldType | variable yield ⓘ |
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: W52 warhead Description of subject: The W52 warhead was a U.S. thermonuclear warhead developed during the Cold War for use in intermediate-range ballistic missiles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.