75th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
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The 75th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit in the American Civil War composed largely of German-American volunteers that fought in major Eastern Theater battles, including Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.
All labels observed (1)
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| 75th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5686295 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 75th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment Context triple: [XI Corps (Union Army of the Potomac), notableUnit, 75th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment]
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71st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 71st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit in the American Civil War noted for its fierce fighting at Gettysburg, particularly near the High Water Mark of the Confederacy.
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72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit in the American Civil War noted for its fierce fighting at Gettysburg, particularly in the repulse of Pickett’s Charge near the High Water Mark of the Confederacy.
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83rd Pennsylvania Infantry
The 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry was a Union Army regiment in the American Civil War noted for its crucial role in the defense of Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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106th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 106th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit from Pennsylvania that fought in major Civil War battles, including at Gettysburg where it was present at the famed High Water Mark of the Confederacy.
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69th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 69th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit in the American Civil War, composed largely of Irish Americans from Philadelphia and noted for its fierce defense of Cemetery Ridge during Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 75th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment Target entity description: The 75th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit in the American Civil War composed largely of German-American volunteers that fought in major Eastern Theater battles, including Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.
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A.
71st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 71st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit in the American Civil War noted for its fierce fighting at Gettysburg, particularly near the High Water Mark of the Confederacy.
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B.
72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit in the American Civil War noted for its fierce fighting at Gettysburg, particularly in the repulse of Pickett’s Charge near the High Water Mark of the Confederacy.
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C.
83rd Pennsylvania Infantry
The 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry was a Union Army regiment in the American Civil War noted for its crucial role in the defense of Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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D.
106th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 106th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit from Pennsylvania that fought in major Civil War battles, including at Gettysburg where it was present at the famed High Water Mark of the Confederacy.
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E.
69th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 69th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit in the American Civil War, composed largely of Irish Americans from Philadelphia and noted for its fierce defense of Cemetery Ridge during Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Civil War military unit
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Union Army regiment ⓘ infantry regiment ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union ⓘ |
| armyAssignment |
Army of the Cumberland
NERFINISHED
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Army of the Potomac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branchType | infantry ⓘ |
| composition | German-American volunteers ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| corpsAssignment | XI Corps, Army of the Potomac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| engagement |
Atlanta Campaign
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Cedar Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Chancellorsville NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Cross Keys NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Wauhatchie NERFINISHED ⓘ Carolinas Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ Chattanooga Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Battle of Bull Run NERFINISHED ⓘ Sherman’s March to the Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageCommunity | German-American community in Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | largely composed of German-speaking immigrants ⓘ |
| organizedAt | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | defense of Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg ⓘ |
| raisedBy | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEndYear | 1865 ⓘ |
| serviceEntryYear | 1861 ⓘ |
| sideInWar | Union (North) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations | Eastern Theater of the 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: 75th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment Description of subject: The 75th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit in the American Civil War composed largely of German-American volunteers that fought in major Eastern Theater battles, including Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.