Army of the Tennessee
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The Army of the Tennessee was a major Union field army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, commanded at various times by generals such as Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Army of the Tennessee canonical | 25 |
| Union Army of the Tennessee | 3 |
| Army of the Tennessee (Union) | 2 |
| Army of the Tennessee units | 1 |
| Right Wing (Army of the Tennessee) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1091017 — 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 Tennessee Context triple: [Battle of Shiloh, hasParticipant, Army of the Tennessee]
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A.
Army of the Ohio
The Army of the Ohio was a major Union field army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, active in key campaigns across Kentucky and Tennessee.
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B.
Confederate States Army
The Confederate States Army was the land warfare force of the secessionist Southern states during the American Civil War, known for figures like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
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C.
Army of the Potomac
The Army of the Potomac was the principal Union field army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, best known for its major campaigns against Confederate forces in Virginia.
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D.
Army of Northern Virginia
The Army of Northern Virginia was the Confederacy’s principal field army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, renowned for its major campaigns and battles under General Robert E. Lee.
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E.
Army of the Shenandoah (Confederate)
The Army of the Shenandoah (Confederate) was an early Confederate field army operating in the strategically vital Shenandoah Valley of Virginia during the opening phase of the American Civil War.
- 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 Tennessee Target entity description: The Army of the Tennessee was a major Union field army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, commanded at various times by generals such as Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman.
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A.
Army of the Ohio
The Army of the Ohio was a major Union field army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, active in key campaigns across Kentucky and Tennessee.
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B.
Confederate States Army
The Confederate States Army was the land warfare force of the secessionist Southern states during the American Civil War, known for figures like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
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C.
Army of the Potomac
The Army of the Potomac was the principal Union field army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, best known for its major campaigns against Confederate forces in Virginia.
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D.
Army of Northern Virginia
The Army of Northern Virginia was the Confederacy’s principal field army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, renowned for its major campaigns and battles under General Robert E. Lee.
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E.
Army of the Shenandoah (Confederate)
The Army of the Shenandoah (Confederate) was an early Confederate field army operating in the strategically vital Shenandoah Valley of Virginia during the opening phase of the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Army of the Tennessee Description of subject: The Army of the Tennessee was a major Union field army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, commanded at various times by generals such as Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Union Army of the Tennessee
this entity surface form:
Army of the Tennessee (Union)
this entity surface form:
Union Army of the Tennessee
this entity surface form:
Union Army of the Tennessee
this entity surface form:
Army of the Tennessee (Union)
this entity surface form:
Army of the Tennessee units
this entity surface form:
Right Wing (Army of the Tennessee)