Confederate States of America
E8547
The Confederate States of America was a coalition of secessionist Southern states that broke away from the United States from 1861 to 1865, fighting to preserve slavery and states’ rights during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (26)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T51293 — 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: Confederate States of America Context triple: [American Civil War, hasParticipant, Confederate States of America]
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A.
Republic of Texas
The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation in North America from 1836 to 1845, formed after winning independence from Mexico before later joining the United States.
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B.
United States of America
The United States of America is a large federal republic in North America known for its global political, economic, military, and cultural influence.
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C.
United Provinces
The United Provinces was a major administrative region of British India that later became the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after independence.
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D.
Free State
The Free State is a nickname for the U.S. state of Maryland, reflecting its historical stance on issues such as Prohibition and personal liberties.
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E.
Congress of the Confederation
The Congress of the Confederation was the unicameral governing body of the United States under the Articles of Confederation, overseeing national affairs between the Revolutionary War and the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
- 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: Confederate States of America Target entity description: The Confederate States of America was a coalition of secessionist Southern states that broke away from the United States from 1861 to 1865, fighting to preserve slavery and states’ rights during the American Civil War.
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A.
Republic of Texas
The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation in North America from 1836 to 1845, formed after winning independence from Mexico before later joining the United States.
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B.
United States of America
The United States of America is a large federal republic in North America known for its global political, economic, military, and cultural influence.
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C.
United Provinces
The United Provinces was a major administrative region of British India that later became the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after independence.
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D.
Free State
The Free State is a nickname for the U.S. state of Maryland, reflecting its historical stance on issues such as Prohibition and personal liberties.
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E.
Congress of the Confederation
The Congress of the Confederation was the unicameral governing body of the United States under the Articles of Confederation, overseeing national affairs between the Revolutionary War and the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Confederate States of America Description of subject: The Confederate States of America was a coalition of secessionist Southern states that broke away from the United States from 1861 to 1865, fighting to preserve slavery and states’ rights during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (782)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
CSS Virginia
this entity surface form:
Confederacy
subject surface form:
Lewis Armistead
subject surface form:
Henry L. Benning
subject surface form:
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
subject surface form:
Jerome B. Robertson
subject surface form:
Raphael Semmes
subject surface form:
John C. Pemberton