Army of the West
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The Army of the West was a Union field army in the American Civil War that operated primarily in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, notably participating in early campaigns in Missouri.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Army of the West canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13113272 — 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: Army of the West Context triple: [Battle of Wilson's Creek, UnionArmy, Army of the West]
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A.
Army of the West
The Army of the West was a U.S. military force in the Mexican–American War that led the overland campaign to seize New Mexico and California for the United States.
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B.
Army of the West
The Army of the West is the combined host of Men, Elves, and others led by Aragorn and Gandalf that marches on Mordor’s Black Gate as a desperate diversion in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
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C.
Army of the Frontier
The Army of the Frontier was a Union field army that operated primarily in the Trans-Mississippi Theater during the American Civil War, conducting campaigns in Arkansas, Missouri, and the Indian Territory.
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D.
Esercito del Sud
Esercito del Sud was the Italian royal armed force that, after the 1943 armistice, fought alongside the Allies against Nazi Germany and the Italian Social Republic in southern Italy.
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E.
Northeastern Army
The Northeastern Army is a regional command of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force responsible for land defense and disaster response in Japan’s northeastern area.
- 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: Army of the West Target entity description: The Army of the West was a Union field army in the American Civil War that operated primarily in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, notably participating in early campaigns in Missouri.
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A.
Army of the West
The Army of the West was a U.S. military force in the Mexican–American War that led the overland campaign to seize New Mexico and California for the United States.
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B.
Army of the West
The Army of the West is the combined host of Men, Elves, and others led by Aragorn and Gandalf that marches on Mordor’s Black Gate as a desperate diversion in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
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C.
Army of the Frontier
The Army of the Frontier was a Union field army that operated primarily in the Trans-Mississippi Theater during the American Civil War, conducting campaigns in Arkansas, Missouri, and the Indian Territory.
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D.
Esercito del Sud
Esercito del Sud was the Italian royal armed force that, after the 1943 armistice, fought alongside the Allies against Nazi Germany and the Italian Social Republic in southern Italy.
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E.
Northeastern Army
The Northeastern Army is a regional command of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force responsible for land defense and disaster response in Japan’s northeastern area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Union field army
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military unit ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union ⓘ |
| belligerentAgainst | Confederate States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| campaigns | early-war campaigns in Missouri ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| engagementType | land warfare ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 1860s ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | American Civil War era ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army ground forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | early Union campaigns in Missouri ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Missouri
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trans-Mississippi region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryAreaOfOperations | Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | field operations in the Trans-Mississippi region ⓘ |
| side | United States (Union) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theater | Trans-Mississippi Theater 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: Army of the West Description of subject: The Army of the West was a Union field army in the American Civil War that operated primarily in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, notably participating in early campaigns in Missouri.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Battle of Wilson's Creek