Union Army
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The Union Army was the land-based military force of the United States (the North) during the American Civil War, fighting to preserve the Union and ultimately defeat the Confederacy.
All labels observed (16)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T487094 — 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: Union Army Context triple: [George B. McClellan, servedIn, Union Army]
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Confederate States Army
The Confederate States Army was the land warfare force of the secessionist Southern states during the American Civil War, known for figures like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
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Army of Northern Virginia
The Army of Northern Virginia was the Confederacy’s principal field army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, renowned for its major campaigns and battles under General Robert E. Lee.
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Texian Army
The Texian Army was the volunteer military force that fought for Texas's independence from Mexico during the Texas Revolution in the 1830s.
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United States Volunteers
The United States Volunteers were temporary military units raised by the U.S. federal government, primarily during major wars like the Civil War and Spanish–American War, composed of citizen soldiers serving alongside the regular army.
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Northwestern Army
The Northwestern Army was an anti-Bolshevik White movement military force that operated in northwestern Russia during the Russian Civil War.
- 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: Union Army Target entity description: The Union Army was the land-based military force of the United States (the North) during the American Civil War, fighting to preserve the Union and ultimately defeat the Confederacy.
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A.
Confederate States Army
The Confederate States Army was the land warfare force of the secessionist Southern states during the American Civil War, known for figures like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
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B.
Army of Northern Virginia
The Army of Northern Virginia was the Confederacy’s principal field army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, renowned for its major campaigns and battles under General Robert E. Lee.
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C.
Texian Army
The Texian Army was the volunteer military force that fought for Texas's independence from Mexico during the Texas Revolution in the 1830s.
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D.
United States Volunteers
The United States Volunteers were temporary military units raised by the U.S. federal government, primarily during major wars like the Civil War and Spanish–American War, composed of citizen soldiers serving alongside the regular army.
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E.
Northwestern Army
The Northwestern Army was an anti-Bolshevik White movement military force that operated in northwestern Russia during the Russian Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: Union Army Description of subject: The Union Army was the land-based military force of the United States (the North) during the American Civil War, fighting to preserve the Union and ultimately defeat the Confederacy.
Referenced by (369)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Union Army ground forces
subject surface form:
New Market, Virginia
subject surface form:
Walter Q. Gresham
subject surface form:
Francis Channing Barlow
subject surface form:
Contraband decision
subject surface form:
Joshua W. Sill
this entity surface form:
Union forces