District of Southeast Missouri
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The District of Southeast Missouri was a Union Army administrative and military command area in Missouri during the early part of the American Civil War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| District of Rolla | 1 |
| District of Southeast Missouri canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6054905 — 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: District of Southeast Missouri Context triple: [Army of the Tennessee, predecessor, District of Southeast Missouri]
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A.
Western District of Missouri
The Western District of Missouri is a federal judicial district of the United States District Court system that serves the western portion of the state of Missouri.
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B.
Knox County, Missouri
Knox County, Missouri is a rural county in northeastern Missouri known for its small population, agricultural economy, and county seat of Edina.
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C.
Butler County, Missouri
Butler County, Missouri is a county in southeastern Missouri known for its seat, Poplar Bluff, and its location within the agriculturally rich and historically distinct Missouri Bootheel region.
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D.
Shelby County, Missouri
Shelby County, Missouri is a rural county in northeastern Missouri known for its agricultural landscape and small communities.
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E.
Jefferson County, Missouri
Jefferson County, Missouri is a suburban and semi-rural county in eastern Missouri that forms part of the greater St. Louis metropolitan region.
- 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: District of Southeast Missouri Target entity description: The District of Southeast Missouri was a Union Army administrative and military command area in Missouri during the early part of the American Civil War.
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A.
Western District of Missouri
The Western District of Missouri is a federal judicial district of the United States District Court system that serves the western portion of the state of Missouri.
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B.
Knox County, Missouri
Knox County, Missouri is a rural county in northeastern Missouri known for its small population, agricultural economy, and county seat of Edina.
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C.
Butler County, Missouri
Butler County, Missouri is a county in southeastern Missouri known for its seat, Poplar Bluff, and its location within the agriculturally rich and historically distinct Missouri Bootheel region.
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D.
Shelby County, Missouri
Shelby County, Missouri is a rural county in northeastern Missouri known for its agricultural landscape and small communities.
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E.
Jefferson County, Missouri
Jefferson County, Missouri is a suburban and semi-rural county in eastern Missouri that forms part of the greater St. Louis metropolitan region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Civil War military formation
ⓘ
Union Army military district ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dissolvedIn | American Civil War era ⓘ |
| engagedIn |
operations against Confederate forces in Missouri
ⓘ
operations against guerrilla activity in Missouri ⓘ |
| establishedBy | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| garrisoned |
Missouri Unionist units
ⓘ
Union volunteer regiments ⓘ |
| hasType | geographically defined military district ⓘ |
| headquarters | Pilot Knob, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Union military forces in southeast Missouri ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Missouri
ⓘ
Southeast Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCommander |
Brigadier General Benjamin M. Prentiss
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Department of the Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
defense of southeast Missouri
ⓘ
operations along the Mississippi River in Missouri ⓘ protection of Union lines of communication in Missouri ⓘ |
| role |
administrative command
ⓘ
military command ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Union Department of the Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theater | Western Theater of the American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early American Civil War ⓘ |
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: District of Southeast Missouri Description of subject: The District of Southeast Missouri was a Union Army administrative and military command area in Missouri during the early part of the American Civil War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
District of Rolla