Little War
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The Little War was a Cuban insurrection against Spanish colonial rule from 1879 to 1880, serving as a follow-up attempt to achieve independence after the Ten Years' War.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Little War canonical | 6 |
| La Guerra Chiquita | 1 |
| Little War (La Guerra Chiquita) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2055049 — 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: Little War Context triple: [Máximo Gómez, participantIn, Little War]
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A.
Little Stalingrad
Little Stalingrad is the nickname given to the World War II Battle of Ortona, a brutal and close-quarters engagement between Canadian and German forces in Italy.
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B.
War of Wear and Tear
War of Wear and Tear is an alternative name for a war of attrition, a prolonged conflict in which each side aims to gradually exhaust the enemy’s personnel, resources, and morale rather than achieve swift, decisive victories.
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C.
Battle of the Pockets
The Battle of the Pockets was a series of intense engagements during the early World War II fighting on Bataan in which U.S. and Filipino forces contained and destroyed Japanese penetrations in their defensive lines.
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D.
Troop Zero
Troop Zero is a 2019 family comedy-drama film about a misfit girl in 1970s rural Georgia who forms an unconventional Birdie Scout troop to compete for a chance to have her voice recorded on NASA’s Golden Record.
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E.
War of the Camps
The War of the Camps was a series of brutal mid-1980s sieges and battles in Lebanon in which the Amal Movement and its allies fought Palestinian factions for control of refugee camps during the Lebanese 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: Little War Target entity description: The Little War was a Cuban insurrection against Spanish colonial rule from 1879 to 1880, serving as a follow-up attempt to achieve independence after the Ten Years' War.
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A.
Little Stalingrad
Little Stalingrad is the nickname given to the World War II Battle of Ortona, a brutal and close-quarters engagement between Canadian and German forces in Italy.
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B.
War of Wear and Tear
War of Wear and Tear is an alternative name for a war of attrition, a prolonged conflict in which each side aims to gradually exhaust the enemy’s personnel, resources, and morale rather than achieve swift, decisive victories.
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C.
Battle of the Pockets
The Battle of the Pockets was a series of intense engagements during the early World War II fighting on Bataan in which U.S. and Filipino forces contained and destroyed Japanese penetrations in their defensive lines.
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D.
Troop Zero
Troop Zero is a 2019 family comedy-drama film about a misfit girl in 1970s rural Georgia who forms an unconventional Birdie Scout troop to compete for a chance to have her voice recorded on NASA’s Golden Record.
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E.
War of the Camps
The War of the Camps was a series of brutal mid-1980s sieges and battles in Lebanon in which the Amal Movement and its allies fought Palestinian factions for control of refugee camps during the Lebanese Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cuban insurrection
ⓘ
armed conflict ⓘ war of independence ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Guerra Chiquita ⓘ |
| chronologyWithinSeries | second major Cuban independence uprising against Spain ⓘ |
| combatant |
Cuban insurgents
ⓘ
Spain ⓘ |
| conflictType |
anti-colonial war
ⓘ
guerrilla war ⓘ |
| country | Cuba ⓘ |
| endTime | 1880 ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Cuban War of Independence
ⓘ
War of 1895 ⓘ |
| follows | Ten Years' War ⓘ |
| goal | Cuban independence ⓘ |
| hasCause |
Spanish colonial rule in Cuba
ⓘ
unfulfilled aims of the Ten Years' War ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
continued Cuban nationalist resistance
ⓘ
demonstrated persistence of Cuban independence movement ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalPeriod | Spanish colonial period in Cuba ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Spanish ⓘ |
| location | Cuba ⓘ |
| opponent |
Spain
ⓘ
Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cuban War of Independence
ⓘ
surface form:
Cuban War of Independence movement
Cuban independence wars ⓘ |
| precededBy | Ten Years' War ⓘ |
| reasonForName | short duration and smaller scale compared to Ten Years' War ⓘ |
| result |
Spanish victory
ⓘ
failure of Cuban insurrection ⓘ |
| significantParticipant |
Cuban rebels
ⓘ
Spanish colonial forces ⓘ |
| startTime | 1879 ⓘ |
| temporalLocation | 19th century ⓘ |
| territorialContext | Spanish West Indies ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Little War Description of subject: The Little War was a Cuban insurrection against Spanish colonial rule from 1879 to 1880, serving as a follow-up attempt to achieve independence after the Ten Years' War.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
La Guerra Chiquita
this entity surface form:
Little War (La Guerra Chiquita)