Confederate States Navy
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The Confederate States Navy was the maritime military force of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, responsible for naval operations, commerce raiding, and coastal defense.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Confederate States Navy canonical | 26 |
| Confederate Navy | 8 |
| Confederate States Department of the Navy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1051038 — 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: Confederate States Navy Context triple: [Confederate military leadership, militaryBranch, Confederate States Navy]
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A.
Continental Navy
The Continental Navy was the nascent naval force established by the American colonies during the Revolutionary War to challenge British maritime power.
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B.
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron
The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron was a U.S. Navy formation during the American Civil War responsible for enforcing the Union blockade along the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida.
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C.
Asiatic Squadron
The Asiatic Squadron was a United States Navy formation stationed in East Asian waters that became famous for its decisive victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War.
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D.
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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E.
United States Revenue Cutter Service
The United States Revenue Cutter Service was a maritime law enforcement and rescue service of the U.S. Treasury Department that operated from 1790 until it became a founding component of the modern United States Coast Guard.
- 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: Confederate States Navy Target entity description: The Confederate States Navy was the maritime military force of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, responsible for naval operations, commerce raiding, and coastal defense.
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A.
Continental Navy
The Continental Navy was the nascent naval force established by the American colonies during the Revolutionary War to challenge British maritime power.
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B.
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron
The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron was a U.S. Navy formation during the American Civil War responsible for enforcing the Union blockade along the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida.
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C.
Asiatic Squadron
The Asiatic Squadron was a United States Navy formation stationed in East Asian waters that became famous for its decisive victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War.
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D.
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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E.
United States Revenue Cutter Service
The United States Revenue Cutter Service was a maritime law enforcement and rescue service of the U.S. Treasury Department that operated from 1790 until it became a founding component of the modern United States Coast Guard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (85)
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: Confederate States Navy Description of subject: The Confederate States Navy was the maritime military force of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, responsible for naval operations, commerce raiding, and coastal defense.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Confederate Navy
subject surface form:
Confederate States of America
this entity surface form:
Confederate Navy
this entity surface form:
Confederate Navy
subject surface form:
Matthew Fontaine Maury Monument
this entity surface form:
Confederate Navy
this entity surface form:
Confederate Navy
this entity surface form:
Confederate States Department of the Navy
this entity surface form:
Confederate Navy
this entity surface form:
Confederate Navy
this entity surface form:
Confederate Navy
subject surface form:
CSS Virginia