American Revolutionary War
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The American Revolutionary War was an 18th-century conflict in which the thirteen American colonies fought for and won independence from Great Britain, leading to the founding of the United States.
All labels observed (23)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3678 — 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: American Revolutionary War Context triple: [Thirteen Colonies, significantEvent, American Revolutionary War]
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the opening military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, marking the start of armed conflict between Great Britain and its thirteen American colonies in April 1775.
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Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a 1773 colonial protest in which American colonists, opposing British taxation, boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped chests of tea into the water, helping spark the American Revolution.
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War of the Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was a major European conflict triggered by disputes over the Spanish throne that reshaped the balance of power on the continent and overseas.
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Thirteen Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies were the original British settlements along the Atlantic coast of North America that united to declare independence and form the United States.
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E.
Winter War
The Winter War was a 1939–1940 conflict in which the Soviet Union invaded Finland, leading to fierce Finnish resistance in harsh Arctic conditions and significant casualties on both sides.
- 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: American Revolutionary War Target entity description: The American Revolutionary War was an 18th-century conflict in which the thirteen American colonies fought for and won independence from Great Britain, leading to the founding of the United States.
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A.
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the opening military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, marking the start of armed conflict between Great Britain and its thirteen American colonies in April 1775.
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B.
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a 1773 colonial protest in which American colonists, opposing British taxation, boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped chests of tea into the water, helping spark the American Revolution.
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C.
War of the Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was a major European conflict triggered by disputes over the Spanish throne that reshaped the balance of power on the continent and overseas.
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D.
Thirteen Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies were the original British settlements along the Atlantic coast of North America that united to declare independence and form the United States.
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E.
Winter War
The Winter War was a 1939–1940 conflict in which the Soviet Union invaded Finland, leading to fierce Finnish resistance in harsh Arctic conditions and significant casualties on both sides.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
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: American Revolutionary War Description of subject: The American Revolutionary War was an 18th-century conflict in which the thirteen American colonies fought for and won independence from Great Britain, leading to the founding of the United States.
Referenced by (1,788)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Ford Mansion
this entity surface form:
American War of Independence
subject surface form:
Nathanael Greene
Mulberry Grove Plantation, near Savannah, Georgia
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locatedInTimePeriod
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American Revolutionary War
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subject surface form:
Mulberry Grove Plantation
this entity surface form:
American Revolutionary War era
this entity surface form:
American Revolution
subject surface form:
Hamilton
Foreign relations of the United Kingdom (historical)
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significantEvent
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American Revolutionary War
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this entity surface form:
American War of Independence
this entity surface form:
American Revolution
this entity surface form:
American Revolution
this entity surface form:
American Revolutionary War era
this entity surface form:
American Revolution