44th New York Infantry
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The 44th New York Infantry was a Union Army regiment in the American Civil War noted for its prominent role in the defense of key positions during major battles, including Gettysburg.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 44th New York Infantry canonical | 2 |
| 44th New York Infantry Regiment | 1 |
| 44th New York Volunteer Infantry | 1 |
| 44th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T982530 — 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: 44th New York Infantry Context triple: [Little Round Top, defendedBy, 44th New York Infantry]
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A.
83rd Pennsylvania Infantry
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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B.
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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C.
15th Alabama Infantry
The 15th Alabama Infantry was a Confederate Civil War regiment best known for its fierce but unsuccessful assault on Union positions at Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg.
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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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E.
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.
- 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: 44th New York Infantry Target entity description: The 44th New York Infantry was a Union Army regiment in the American Civil War noted for its prominent role in the defense of key positions during major battles, including Gettysburg.
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A.
83rd Pennsylvania Infantry
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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B.
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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C.
15th Alabama Infantry
The 15th Alabama Infantry was a Confederate Civil War regiment best known for its fierce but unsuccessful assault on Union positions at Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg.
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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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E.
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.
- 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: 44th New York Infantry Description of subject: The 44th New York Infantry was a Union Army regiment in the American Civil War noted for its prominent role in the defense of key positions during major battles, including Gettysburg.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Little Round Top
this entity surface form:
44th New York Infantry Regiment
this entity surface form:
44th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
this entity surface form:
44th New York Volunteer Infantry