American Revolutionary era

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historical era period of United States history

The American Revolutionary era was the late-18th-century period in which the thirteen American colonies broke from British rule, fought the Revolutionary War, and laid the political and ideological foundations for the United States.

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Label	Occurrences
American Revolution	136
American Revolutionary era canonical	60
American Revolutionary period	27
American Revolution era	8
American Revolutionary War (political leadership)	4
American Founding Era	3
American Revolutionary War era	3
Founding Era of the United States	3
American independence movement	2
Founding era of the United States	2
Founding of the United States	2
the American Revolution	2
American Revolution (political leadership)	1
American Revolution (prelude)	1
American Revolutionary crisis	1
American Revolutionary era (political developments)	1
American Revolutionary era politics	1
American Revolutionary movement	1
American colonial resistance movement	1
American revolutionary movement	1
the American Revolution fundamentally transformed American society	1
the American Revolution transformed political relationships and authority structures	1

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NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: American Revolutionary era
Context triple: [United States constitutional history, focusesOnPeriod, American Revolutionary era]

A. American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War was an 18th-century conflict in which the thirteen American colonies fought for and won independence from Great Britain, leading to the founding of the United States.
B. Early Republic of the United States
The Early Republic of the United States was the formative period from the 1790s to the 1820s when the new nation established its political institutions, financial system, and party politics under the Constitution following the American Revolution.
C. Colonial America
Colonial America refers to the period of European, primarily British, settlement and rule in what is now the United States, characterized by developing colonies, frontier expansion, and evolving political, social, and religious institutions prior to independence.
D. American Enlightenment
The American Enlightenment was an intellectual and cultural movement in 18th-century America that emphasized reason, science, and individual rights, profoundly shaping the ideals of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.
E. Townshend Acts era
The Townshend Acts era was a late-1760s phase of escalating tension between Britain and its American colonies, marked by new parliamentary taxes on imports, colonial resistance, and growing political crisis that helped set the stage for the American Revolution.
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: American Revolutionary era
Target entity description: The American Revolutionary era was the late-18th-century period in which the thirteen American colonies broke from British rule, fought the Revolutionary War, and laid the political and ideological foundations for the United States.

A. American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War was an 18th-century conflict in which the thirteen American colonies fought for and won independence from Great Britain, leading to the founding of the United States.
B. Early Republic of the United States
The Early Republic of the United States was the formative period from the 1790s to the 1820s when the new nation established its political institutions, financial system, and party politics under the Constitution following the American Revolution.
C. Colonial America
Colonial America refers to the period of European, primarily British, settlement and rule in what is now the United States, characterized by developing colonies, frontier expansion, and evolving political, social, and religious institutions prior to independence.
D. American Enlightenment
The American Enlightenment was an intellectual and cultural movement in 18th-century America that emphasized reason, science, and individual rights, profoundly shaping the ideals of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.
E. Townshend Acts era
The Townshend Acts era was a late-1760s phase of escalating tension between Britain and its American colonies, marked by new parliamentary taxes on imports, colonial resistance, and growing political crisis that helped set the stage for the American Revolution.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (63)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical era ⓘ period of United States history ⓘ
countryInvolved	Dutch Republic ⓘ France ⓘ Great Britain ⓘ Spain ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
field	Atlantic world ⓘ surface form: Atlantic history intellectual history ⓘ military history ⓘ political history ⓘ
followedBy	Early national period of the United States ⓘ
follows	Colonial America ⓘ
hasCause	British imperial taxation policies ⓘ Seven Years' War debt ⓘ growing American political identity ⓘ lack of colonial representation in Parliament ⓘ
hasEffect	creation of republican institutions in the United States ⓘ decline of British authority in North America ⓘ Union of the American states ⓘ surface form: independence of the United States inspiration for other Atlantic revolutions ⓘ
hasEndTime	1789 ⓘ
hasIdeology	classical liberalism ⓘ natural rights philosophy ⓘ popular sovereignty ⓘ republicanism ⓘ
hasKeyFigure	Alexander Hamilton ⓘ Benjamin Franklin ⓘ George Washington ⓘ James Madison ⓘ John Adams ⓘ George III of the United Kingdom ⓘ surface form: King George III Thomas Jefferson ⓘ
hasPart	United States Founding Fathers ⓘ surface form: American Founding American Revolutionary War ⓘ surface form: American Revolution American Revolutionary War ⓘ American Revolutionary War ⓘ surface form: American War of Independence American independence movement ⓘ Confederation period ⓘ ratification of the United States Constitution ⓘ
hasStartTime	1763 ⓘ
influenced	French Revolution ⓘ Haitian Revolution ⓘ Latin American independence movements ⓘ surface form: Latin American wars of independence
influencedBy	British constitutional tradition ⓘ Age of Enlightenment ⓘ surface form: Enlightenment
location	Atlantic world ⓘ British America ⓘ Thirteen Colonies ⓘ
mainConflict	American Revolutionary War ⓘ
significantEvent	Articles of Confederation ⓘ Battles of Lexington and Concord ⓘ Boston Massacre ⓘ Boston Tea Party ⓘ American Declaration of Independence ⓘ surface form: Declaration of Independence First Continental Congress ⓘ Intolerable Acts ⓘ Philadelphia Convention ⓘ Second Continental Congress ⓘ Shays' Rebellion ⓘ Stamp Act 1765 ⓘ surface form: Stamp Act crisis Treaty of Paris (1783) ⓘ surface form: Treaty of Paris 1783 ratification of the Bill of Rights ⓘ

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