McLaws’s Division
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McLaws’s Division was a Confederate infantry division in the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Major General Lafayette McLaws and noted for its prominent role in major battles such as Gettysburg.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| McLaws's Division | 2 |
| McLaws’s Division canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5149899 — 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: McLaws’s Division Context triple: [Fighting at the Peach Orchard, associatedUnitConfederate, McLaws’s Division]
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A.
Hood's Division
Hood's Division was a Confederate infantry division in the American Civil War, commanded by Major General John Bell Hood and noted for its fierce fighting in battles such as Gettysburg.
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B.
Pickett’s Division
Pickett’s Division was a Confederate infantry division in the American Civil War, best known for leading the ill-fated Pickett’s Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg.
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C.
Pettigrew’s Division
Pettigrew’s Division was a Confederate infantry division in the American Civil War, best known for its pivotal role in the climactic assault at Gettysburg often referred to as Pickett’s Charge.
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D.
Armistead's Brigade
Armistead's Brigade was a Confederate infantry brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War, noted for its role in Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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E.
Birney's Division
Birney's Division was a Union Army infantry division in the American Civil War, notably engaged in fierce fighting at Gettysburg and other major Eastern Theater battles.
- 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: McLaws’s Division Target entity description: McLaws’s Division was a Confederate infantry division in the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Major General Lafayette McLaws and noted for its prominent role in major battles such as Gettysburg.
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A.
Hood's Division
Hood's Division was a Confederate infantry division in the American Civil War, commanded by Major General John Bell Hood and noted for its fierce fighting in battles such as Gettysburg.
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B.
Pickett’s Division
Pickett’s Division was a Confederate infantry division in the American Civil War, best known for leading the ill-fated Pickett’s Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg.
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C.
Pettigrew’s Division
Pettigrew’s Division was a Confederate infantry division in the American Civil War, best known for its pivotal role in the climactic assault at Gettysburg often referred to as Pickett’s Charge.
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D.
Armistead's Brigade
Armistead's Brigade was a Confederate infantry brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War, noted for its role in Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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E.
Birney's Division
Birney's Division was a Union Army infantry division in the American Civil War, notably engaged in fierce fighting at Gettysburg and other major Eastern Theater battles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate infantry division
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military unit ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| army | Army of Northern Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | Confederate States Army infantry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Lafayette McLaws NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| country | Confederate States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryDuringService | Confederate States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| higherCommand | Longstreet’s Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryFormation | division ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Lafayette McLaws NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCommander | Lafayette McLaws NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEngagement |
Battle of Antietam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Chancellorsville NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Fredericksburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Marye’s Heights NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Battle of Bull Run NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Days Battles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notedFor | prominent role in major battles such as Gettysburg ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Gettysburg Campaign
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maryland Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Virginia Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ Peninsula Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Army of Northern Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rankOfCommander | Major General ⓘ |
| roleAtGettysburg | assault on the Union left on 2 July 1863 ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Confederacy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations | Eastern Theater of the American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOfUnit | infantry division ⓘ |
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: McLaws’s Division Description of subject: McLaws’s Division was a Confederate infantry division in the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Major General Lafayette McLaws and noted for its prominent role in major battles such as Gettysburg.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Fighting at the Peach Orchard
this entity surface form:
McLaws's Division
this entity surface form:
McLaws's Division