Massachusetts 40th Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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The Massachusetts 40th Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army infantry unit from Massachusetts that served in the American Civil War, participating in several major campaigns and battles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Massachusetts 40th Volunteer Infantry Regiment canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6913854 — 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: Massachusetts 40th Volunteer Infantry Regiment Context triple: [Massachusetts regiments, hasPart, Massachusetts 40th Volunteer Infantry Regiment]
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A.
Massachusetts 28th Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The Massachusetts 28th Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit composed largely of Irish-American soldiers that fought in major battles of the American Civil War.
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B.
Massachusetts 29th Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The Massachusetts 29th Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army infantry unit from Massachusetts that served in major campaigns of the American Civil War.
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C.
Massachusetts 9th Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The Massachusetts 9th Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army infantry unit from Massachusetts that served in the American Civil War, composed largely of Irish-American volunteers and noted for its participation in several major campaigns.
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D.
1st Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 1st Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army infantry unit from Massachusetts that served early and prominently in the American Civil War.
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E.
2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army infantry unit from Massachusetts that served with distinction in major battles of the American Civil War, including Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
- 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: Massachusetts 40th Volunteer Infantry Regiment Target entity description: The Massachusetts 40th Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army infantry unit from Massachusetts that served in the American Civil War, participating in several major campaigns and battles.
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A.
Massachusetts 28th Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The Massachusetts 28th Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit composed largely of Irish-American soldiers that fought in major battles of the American Civil War.
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B.
Massachusetts 29th Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The Massachusetts 29th Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army infantry unit from Massachusetts that served in major campaigns of the American Civil War.
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C.
Massachusetts 9th Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The Massachusetts 9th Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army infantry unit from Massachusetts that served in the American Civil War, composed largely of Irish-American volunteers and noted for its participation in several major campaigns.
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D.
1st Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 1st Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army infantry unit from Massachusetts that served early and prominently in the American Civil War.
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E.
2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army infantry unit from Massachusetts that served with distinction in major battles of the American Civil War, including Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Civil War military unit
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Union Army regiment ⓘ infantry regiment ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Union Army campaigns in the American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| garrisonState | Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDesignation |
40th Massachusetts Infantry
NERFINISHED
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40th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra | American Civil War era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| locationOfFormation | Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | infantry ⓘ |
| militaryFunction | ground combat operations ⓘ |
| militaryRole | line infantry ⓘ |
| notableFor |
participation in several major battles of the American Civil War
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service in multiple major campaigns of the American Civil War ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Union forces in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War ⓘ |
| raisedIn | Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceType | volunteer regiment ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Massachusetts 40th Volunteer Infantry Regiment Description of subject: The Massachusetts 40th Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army infantry unit from Massachusetts that served in the American Civil War, participating in several major campaigns and battles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.