Louisiana Tigers
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The Louisiana Tigers were a famed Confederate Civil War unit from Louisiana known for their ferocity in battle and distinctive, often unruly, character.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Louisiana Tigers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5810006 — 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: Louisiana Tigers Context triple: [Harry T. Hays, notableCommand, Louisiana Tigers]
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A.
St. Louis Terriers
The St. Louis Terriers were a short-lived Federal League baseball team based in St. Louis that played during the mid-1910s.
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B.
Memphis Redbirds
The Memphis Redbirds are a Minor League Baseball team and Triple-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals based in Memphis, Tennessee.
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C.
Louisville Bats
The Louisville Bats are a Minor League Baseball team based in Louisville, Kentucky, serving as the Triple-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds.
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D.
Shreveport Pirates
The Shreveport Pirates were a short-lived Canadian Football League team based in Shreveport, Louisiana, that played in the mid-1990s during the league’s U.S. expansion.
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E.
Louisville Colonels
The Louisville Colonels were a 19th-century Major League Baseball team based in Louisville, Kentucky, that competed in the American Association and later the National League.
- 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: Louisiana Tigers Target entity description: The Louisiana Tigers were a famed Confederate Civil War unit from Louisiana known for their ferocity in battle and distinctive, often unruly, character.
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A.
St. Louis Terriers
The St. Louis Terriers were a short-lived Federal League baseball team based in St. Louis that played during the mid-1910s.
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B.
Memphis Redbirds
The Memphis Redbirds are a Minor League Baseball team and Triple-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals based in Memphis, Tennessee.
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C.
Louisville Bats
The Louisville Bats are a Minor League Baseball team based in Louisville, Kentucky, serving as the Triple-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds.
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D.
Shreveport Pirates
The Shreveport Pirates were a short-lived Canadian Football League team based in Shreveport, Louisiana, that played in the mid-1990s during the league’s U.S. expansion.
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E.
Louisville Colonels
The Louisville Colonels were a 19th-century Major League Baseball team based in Louisville, Kentucky, that competed in the American Association and later the National League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Civil War military unit
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Confederate military unit ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Brigadier General Richard Taylor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Major Chatham Roberdeau Wheat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch |
Infantry
ⓘ
Light infantry ⓘ Zouave-style infantry ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| country | Confederate States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalImage | romanticized Confederate shock troops ⓘ |
| disbanded | end of American Civil War ⓘ |
| disciplineIssues |
brawling in camp
ⓘ
insubordination ⓘ looting ⓘ |
| engagedIn |
Battle of Antietam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ First Battle of Bull Run NERFINISHED ⓘ Peninsula Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ Valley Campaigns of 1862 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethos | shock troops ⓘ |
| ideology | support for the Confederacy ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| militaryRole |
assault infantry
ⓘ
skirmishers ⓘ |
| nickname | Tigers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive appearance
ⓘ
ferocity in battle ⓘ unruly behavior ⓘ |
| origin | Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Army of Northern Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recruitmentArea |
New Orleans
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
rural Louisiana ⓘ |
| reputation |
brawling
ⓘ
fearsome fighters ⓘ hard-drinking ⓘ undisciplined ⓘ |
| socialComposition |
dockworkers and laborers
ⓘ
immigrants ⓘ working-class volunteers ⓘ |
| subunitOf |
Louisiana brigades in the Army of Northern Virginia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wheat's Special Battalion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1861–1865 ⓘ |
| uniformFeature |
baggy trousers
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colorful jackets ⓘ fez or turban-style headgear ⓘ |
| uniformStyle | Zouave-inspired ⓘ |
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: Louisiana Tigers Description of subject: The Louisiana Tigers were a famed Confederate Civil War unit from Louisiana known for their ferocity in battle and distinctive, often unruly, character.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Harry T. Hays