Union
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The Union was the federal government and Northern states of the United States that opposed the seceding Confederate states during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Union canonical | 143 |
| Union (preservation of the Union during the American Civil War) | 1 |
| Union (pro-Union sentiment during the American Civil War) | 1 |
| Unionism | 1 |
| the Union | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T51292 — 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: Union Context triple: [American Civil War, hasParticipant, Union]
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A.
Republican Party
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, traditionally associated with conservative and pro-business policies.
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B.
Reform Party of the United States of America
The Reform Party of the United States of America is a minor centrist political party founded by Ross Perot in the 1990s that has occasionally attracted high-profile figures dissatisfied with the Republican and Democratic parties.
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C.
Democratic Party
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, traditionally associated with liberal and progressive policies on social and economic issues.
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D.
Grand Alliance
The Grand Alliance was a major European coalition formed in the late 17th century to oppose the expansionist policies of Louis XIV’s France.
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E.
Whig Party
The Whig Party was a major 19th-century American political party that opposed Andrew Jackson’s Democrats and promoted congressional supremacy, economic modernization, and internal improvements.
- 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: Union Target entity description: The Union was the federal government and Northern states of the United States that opposed the seceding Confederate states during the American Civil War.
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A.
Republican Party
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, traditionally associated with conservative and pro-business policies.
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B.
Reform Party of the United States of America
The Reform Party of the United States of America is a minor centrist political party founded by Ross Perot in the 1990s that has occasionally attracted high-profile figures dissatisfied with the Republican and Democratic parties.
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C.
Democratic Party
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, traditionally associated with liberal and progressive policies on social and economic issues.
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D.
Grand Alliance
The Grand Alliance was a major European coalition formed in the late 17th century to oppose the expansionist policies of Louis XIV’s France.
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E.
Whig Party
The Whig Party was a major British political party from the late 17th to the 19th century that championed constitutional monarchy, parliamentary supremacy, and commercial interests, and later evolved into the Liberal Party.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (79)
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: Union Description of subject: The Union was the federal government and Northern states of the United States that opposed the seceding Confederate states during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (147)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Joseph Hooker
subject surface form:
Philip Sheridan
subject surface form:
Barbara Frietchie
subject surface form:
Philip Sheridan
this entity surface form:
Union (pro-Union sentiment during the American Civil War)
subject surface form:
Battle of Wilson's Creek
subject surface form:
Samuel P. Heintzelman
subject surface form:
Henry W. Halleck