Pittsburg Landing
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Pittsburg Landing is a riverside location on the Tennessee River that served as the primary Union landing and staging area during the American Civil War’s Battle of Shiloh.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pittsburg Landing canonical | 2 |
| Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1091015 — 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: Pittsburg Landing Context triple: [Battle of Shiloh, notableLocation, Pittsburg Landing]
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A.
Fort Henry
Fort Henry is a historic 19th-century British military fortress and popular tourist site located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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B.
Wilson's Mills
Wilson's Mills is a small town in North Carolina known for its residential communities and proximity to the Raleigh metropolitan area.
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C.
Fort Hawkins
Fort Hawkins was an early 19th-century U.S. military fort and frontier trading post that became the nucleus for the later city of Macon, Georgia.
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D.
Kittanning
Kittanning is a borough in western Pennsylvania that serves as the administrative and historic center of Armstrong County.
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E.
Schuylkill Banks
Schuylkill Banks is a popular urban waterfront park and recreational corridor along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, featuring trails, green space, and riverfront amenities.
- 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: Pittsburg Landing Target entity description: Pittsburg Landing is a riverside location on the Tennessee River that served as the primary Union landing and staging area during the American Civil War’s Battle of Shiloh.
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A.
Fort Henry
Fort Henry is a historic 19th-century British military fortress and popular tourist site located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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B.
Wilson's Mills
Wilson's Mills is a small town in North Carolina known for its residential communities and proximity to the Raleigh metropolitan area.
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C.
Fort Hawkins
Fort Hawkins was an early 19th-century U.S. military fort and frontier trading post that became the nucleus for the later city of Macon, Georgia.
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D.
Kittanning
Kittanning is a borough in western Pennsylvania that serves as the administrative and historic center of Armstrong County.
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E.
Schuylkill Banks
Schuylkill Banks is a popular urban waterfront park and recreational corridor along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, featuring trails, green space, and riverfront amenities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographic location
ⓘ
riverside landing ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Don Carlos Buell
ⓘ
Ulysses S. Grant ⓘ Army of the Tennessee ⓘ
surface form:
Union Army of the Tennessee
|
| battlefieldFunction |
disembarkation point for Union reinforcements
ⓘ
evacuation point for wounded soldiers ⓘ |
| controlledBy | Union forces during Battle of Shiloh ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| currentStatus | part of Shiloh National Military Park ⓘ |
| dateOfMajorEvent | April 6–7, 1862 ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | major Union base of operations at Battle of Shiloh ⓘ |
| hasMemorials | Civil War monuments ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFeature |
Tennessee River bluffs
ⓘ
river landing wharf area ⓘ |
| hasRole | primary Union landing at Battle of Shiloh ⓘ |
| hasTransportationRole | historic river transport point ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hardin County, Tennessee
ⓘ
Tennessee ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedOn | Tennessee River ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Pittsburg family or local settler named Pittsburg ⓘ |
| near |
Shiloh Church
ⓘ
Shiloh battlefield area ⓘ
surface form:
Shiloh National Military Park
|
| partOf | Shiloh battlefield area ⓘ |
| tourism | Civil War heritage site ⓘ |
| usedAs |
Union Army landing site
ⓘ
staging area ⓘ |
| usedDuring |
American Civil War
ⓘ
Battle of Shiloh ⓘ |
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: Pittsburg Landing Description of subject: Pittsburg Landing is a riverside location on the Tennessee River that served as the primary Union landing and staging area during the American Civil War’s Battle of Shiloh.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Battle of Shiloh
this entity surface form:
Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee