83rd Pennsylvania Infantry
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The 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry was a Union Army regiment in the American Civil War noted for its crucial role in the defense of Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T982529 — 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: 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Context triple: [Little Round Top, defendedBy, 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry]
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20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit in the American Civil War, famed for its pivotal bayonet charge and staunch defense of the Union left flank at the Battle of Gettysburg under Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain.
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13th Corps
The 13th Corps was a British Army corps-level formation that played a significant role in North African campaigns during the Second World War.
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15th Infantry Regiment
The 15th Infantry Regiment was a German Army unit in which future Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus served during his early military career.
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1st Texas Infantry
The 1st Texas Infantry was a Confederate Civil War regiment from Texas that fought in many major battles, including the Gettysburg campaign.
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Army of the Potomac
The Army of the Potomac was the principal Union field army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, best known for its major campaigns against Confederate forces in Virginia.
- 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: 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Target entity description: The 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry was a Union Army regiment in the American Civil War noted for its crucial role in the defense of Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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A.
20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit in the American Civil War, famed for its pivotal bayonet charge and staunch defense of the Union left flank at the Battle of Gettysburg under Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain.
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B.
13th Corps
The 13th Corps was a British Army corps-level formation that played a significant role in North African campaigns during the Second World War.
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C.
15th Infantry Regiment
The 15th Infantry Regiment was a German Army unit in which future Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus served during his early military career.
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D.
1st Texas Infantry
The 1st Texas Infantry was a Confederate Civil War regiment from Texas that fought in many major battles, including the Gettysburg campaign.
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Army of the Potomac
The Army of the Potomac was the principal Union field army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, best known for its major campaigns against Confederate forces in Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Description of subject: The 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry was a Union Army regiment in the American Civil War noted for its crucial role in the defense of Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Little Round Top
this entity surface form:
83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
this entity surface form:
83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
this entity surface form:
83rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
83rd Pennsylvania Infantry
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stateDesignation
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83rd Pennsylvania Infantry
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this entity surface form:
83rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
this entity surface form:
83rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment
this entity surface form:
83rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment