17th Infantry Regiment
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The 17th Infantry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army infantry unit with a lineage dating back to the 19th century, noted for its combat service in multiple major American wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 17th Infantry Regiment canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11850689 — 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: 17th Infantry Regiment Context triple: [7th Infantry Division, component, 17th Infantry Regiment]
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175th Infantry Regiment
The 175th Infantry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army infantry unit from Maryland that has served in major conflicts including the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II.
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57th Infantry Regiment
The 57th Infantry Regiment was a renowned Ottoman military unit that fought with distinction during World War I, particularly in the Gallipoli Campaign.
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11th Infantry Regiment
The 11th Infantry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army infantry unit known for its service in multiple major conflicts as part of larger divisions such as the 5th Infantry Division.
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41st Infantry Regiment
The 41st Infantry Regiment was a post–Civil War U.S. Army African American unit composed of Black enlisted men and white officers, historically known as one of the Buffalo Soldier regiments.
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13th Infantry Regiment
The 13th Infantry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army infantry unit known for its service in multiple major conflicts, including the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and beyond.
- 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: 17th Infantry Regiment Target entity description: The 17th Infantry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army infantry unit with a lineage dating back to the 19th century, noted for its combat service in multiple major American wars.
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A.
175th Infantry Regiment
The 175th Infantry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army infantry unit from Maryland that has served in major conflicts including the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II.
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B.
57th Infantry Regiment
The 57th Infantry Regiment was a renowned Ottoman military unit that fought with distinction during World War I, particularly in the Gallipoli Campaign.
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C.
11th Infantry Regiment
The 11th Infantry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army infantry unit known for its service in multiple major conflicts as part of larger divisions such as the 5th Infantry Division.
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D.
41st Infantry Regiment
The 41st Infantry Regiment was a post–Civil War U.S. Army African American unit composed of Black enlisted men and white officers, historically known as one of the Buffalo Soldier regiments.
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E.
13th Infantry Regiment
The 13th Infantry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army infantry unit known for its service in multiple major conflicts, including the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: 17th Infantry Regiment Description of subject: The 17th Infantry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army infantry unit with a lineage dating back to the 19th century, noted for its combat service in multiple major American wars.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hourglass Division