Garibaldi’s Thousand
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Garibaldi’s Thousand was a volunteer force led by Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860 that played a crucial role in the unification of Italy by conquering the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Garibaldi’s Redshirts | 1 |
| Garibaldi’s Thousand canonical | 1 |
| Garibaldi’s volunteers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3516042 — 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.
Target entity: Garibaldi’s Thousand Context triple: [Expedition of the Thousand, alsoKnownAs, Garibaldi’s Thousand]
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A.
Guerra Grande
Guerra Grande is the Spanish name for the Ten Years' War, a major 19th-century Cuban struggle for independence from Spanish colonial rule.
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B.
The Italian Banditti
The Italian Banditti is a story within Washington Irving's 1824 collection "Tales of a Traveller," featuring romanticized adventures involving Italian outlaws and intrigue.
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C.
Alazanes de Granma
Alazanes de Granma is a Cuban professional baseball team from Granma Province that competes in the Cuban National Series and is known as one of the league’s strong contenders.
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D.
Brigade 2506
Brigade 2506 was a CIA-sponsored paramilitary group of Cuban exiles that carried out the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion against Fidel Castro’s government.
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E.
The Revolutionist
"The Revolutionist" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, included in his collection *In Our Time*, that portrays a young political idealist in postwar Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Garibaldi’s Thousand Target entity description: Garibaldi’s Thousand was a volunteer force led by Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860 that played a crucial role in the unification of Italy by conquering the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
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A.
Guerra Grande
Guerra Grande is the Spanish name for the Ten Years' War, a major 19th-century Cuban struggle for independence from Spanish colonial rule.
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B.
The Italian Banditti
The Italian Banditti is a story within Washington Irving's 1824 collection "Tales of a Traveller," featuring romanticized adventures involving Italian outlaws and intrigue.
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C.
Alazanes de Granma
Alazanes de Granma is a Cuban professional baseball team from Granma Province that competes in the Cuban National Series and is known as one of the league’s strong contenders.
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D.
Brigade 2506
Brigade 2506 was a CIA-sponsored paramilitary group of Cuban exiles that carried out the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion against Fidel Castro’s government.
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E.
The Revolutionist
"The Revolutionist" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, included in his collection *In Our Time*, that portrays a young political idealist in postwar Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expeditionary force
ⓘ
historical military unit ⓘ volunteer military force ⓘ |
| aftermath | territories handed to King Victor Emmanuel II ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
I Mille
ⓘ
The Thousand ⓘ |
| approximateSize | about 1,000 volunteers ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Cavour’s unification policy
ⓘ
Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia ⓘ
surface form:
Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
|
| commander | Giuseppe Garibaldi ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
Italian patriotic literature
ⓘ
monuments in Italy ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Sardinia ⓘ |
| dateOfLanding | 11 May 1860 ⓘ |
| destination | Sicily ⓘ |
| endTime | 1860 ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Redshirts volunteer corps
ⓘ
surface form:
Redshirt volunteers
|
| historicalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| landingPlace | Marsala ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Italian ⓘ |
| leader | Giuseppe Garibaldi ⓘ |
| locationOfFormation |
Quarto, near Genoa
ⓘ
surface form:
Quarto, Genoa
|
| namedAfter | approximate number of initial volunteers ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Battle of Calatafimi
ⓘ
Battle of Milazzo (1860) ⓘ Battle of Palermo (1860) ⓘ |
| opponent |
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (by unification of Naples and Sicily)
ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
|
| originalName | I Mille ⓘ |
| partOf |
Italian Risorgimento
ⓘ
surface form:
Italian unification
Italian Risorgimento ⓘ
surface form:
Risorgimento
|
| pointOfDeparture |
Quarto, near Genoa
ⓘ
surface form:
Quarto, Genoa
|
| primaryObjective |
annexation of southern Italy to the Kingdom of Sardinia
ⓘ
overthrow Bourbon rule in southern Italy ⓘ |
| recruitmentBasis | volunteer enlistment ⓘ |
| result |
collapse of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
ⓘ
expansion of the Kingdom of Sardinia ⓘ facilitation of the unification of Italy ⓘ |
| significance | key campaign in the Italian Risorgimento ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
ⓘ
landing at Marsala ⓘ |
| startTime | 1860 ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
Italian nationalists
ⓘ
Kingdom of Sardinia ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Sardinia (indirectly)
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| theaterOfOperations |
Sicily
ⓘ
southern Italian mainland ⓘ |
| uniform | red shirts ⓘ |
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Subject: Garibaldi’s Thousand Description of subject: Garibaldi’s Thousand was a volunteer force led by Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860 that played a crucial role in the unification of Italy by conquering the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Referenced by (3)
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