Fort Henry
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Fort Henry was a Confederate stronghold on the Tennessee River whose capture by Union forces in 1862 marked a key early victory in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fort Henry canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5618159 — 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: Fort Henry Context triple: [Fort Donelson campaign, involvedFort, Fort Henry]
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A.
Fort Henry
Fort Henry is a historic 19th-century British military fortress and popular tourist site located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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B.
Fort Hancock
Fort Hancock is a historic former U.S. Army coastal defense installation located on Sandy Hook in New Jersey, now preserved as part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
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C.
Pittsburg Landing
Pittsburg Landing is a riverside location on the Tennessee River that served as the primary Union landing and staging area during the American Civil War’s Battle of Shiloh.
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D.
Mount Juliet
Mount Juliet is a rapidly growing suburban city in Wilson County, Tennessee, located just east of Nashville.
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E.
Fort Hawkins
Fort Hawkins was an early 19th-century U.S. military fort and frontier trading post that became the nucleus for the later city of Macon, Georgia.
- 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: Fort Henry Target entity description: Fort Henry was a Confederate stronghold on the Tennessee River whose capture by Union forces in 1862 marked a key early victory in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
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A.
Fort Henry
Fort Henry is a historic 19th-century British military fortress and popular tourist site located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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B.
Fort Hancock
Fort Hancock is a historic former U.S. Army coastal defense installation located on Sandy Hook in New Jersey, now preserved as part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
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C.
Pittsburg Landing
Pittsburg Landing is a riverside location on the Tennessee River that served as the primary Union landing and staging area during the American Civil War’s Battle of Shiloh.
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D.
Mount Juliet
Mount Juliet is a rapidly growing suburban city in Wilson County, Tennessee, located just east of Nashville.
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E.
Fort Hawkins
Fort Hawkins was an early 19th-century U.S. military fort and frontier trading post that became the nucleus for the later city of Macon, Georgia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate stronghold
ⓘ
battle ⓘ fort ⓘ |
| belligerent |
Confederacy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| captureDate | February 1862 ⓘ |
| capturedBy | Union forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| controlledBy | Confederate States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| date | February 6, 1862 ⓘ |
| event | Battle of Fort Henry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fallContributedTo |
Union advance into Tennessee
ⓘ
weakening of Confederate defensive line in the West ⓘ |
| garrisonedBy | Confederate Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Tennessee
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedOn | Tennessee River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Fort Henry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyFort | Fort Donelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | early Union victory in the Western Theater ⓘ |
| opposedBy | United States (Union) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
American Civil War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western Theater of the American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| result | Union victory ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | control of navigation on the Tennessee River ⓘ |
| usedDuring | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Fort Henry Description of subject: Fort Henry was a Confederate stronghold on the Tennessee River whose capture by Union forces in 1862 marked a key early victory in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.