Army of the Peninsula
E129997
The Army of the Peninsula was a Confederate field army that defended southeastern Virginia early in the American Civil War before being absorbed into larger Confederate forces.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Army of the Peninsula canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1080891 — 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: Army of the Peninsula Context triple: [Army of Northern Virginia, predecessor, Army of the Peninsula]
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A.
Battle of Talavera
The Battle of Talavera was a major 1809 engagement in the Peninsular War in which British and Spanish forces under Sir Arthur Wellesley checked a French army in central Spain, boosting Allied morale despite heavy casualties and limited strategic gain.
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B.
Battle of Vitoria
The Battle of Vitoria was a decisive 1813 engagement in the Peninsular War in which Allied forces under the Duke of Wellington defeated the French, effectively ending Napoleon’s control over Spain.
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C.
Battle of Salamanca
The Battle of Salamanca was a major 1812 engagement in the Peninsular War in which the Duke of Wellington’s Anglo-Portuguese army decisively defeated French forces, significantly weakening Napoleon’s control over Spain.
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D.
Battle of the Ebro
The Battle of the Ebro was the largest and one of the bloodiest engagements of the Spanish Civil War, marking a decisive defeat for the Republican forces and paving the way for Franco’s ultimate victory.
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E.
Battle of Jarama
The Battle of Jarama was a major 1937 engagement of the Spanish Civil War near Madrid, in which Republican forces, including many International Brigades, fought to halt a Nationalist attempt to cut the capital off from Valencia.
- 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: Army of the Peninsula Target entity description: The Army of the Peninsula was a Confederate field army that defended southeastern Virginia early in the American Civil War before being absorbed into larger Confederate forces.
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A.
Battle of Talavera
The Battle of Talavera was a major 1809 engagement in the Peninsular War in which British and Spanish forces under Sir Arthur Wellesley checked a French army in central Spain, boosting Allied morale despite heavy casualties and limited strategic gain.
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B.
Battle of Vitoria
The Battle of Vitoria was a decisive 1813 engagement in the Peninsular War in which Allied forces under the Duke of Wellington defeated the French, effectively ending Napoleon’s control over Spain.
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C.
Battle of Salamanca
The Battle of Salamanca was a major 1812 engagement in the Peninsular War in which the Duke of Wellington’s Anglo-Portuguese army decisively defeated French forces, significantly weakening Napoleon’s control over Spain.
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D.
Battle of the Ebro
The Battle of the Ebro was the largest and one of the bloodiest engagements of the Spanish Civil War, marking a decisive defeat for the Republican forces and paving the way for Franco’s ultimate victory.
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E.
Battle of Jarama
The Battle of Jarama was a major 1937 engagement of the Spanish Civil War near Madrid, in which Republican forces, including many International Brigades, fought to halt a Nationalist attempt to cut the capital off from Valencia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Army of the Peninsula Description of subject: The Army of the Peninsula was a Confederate field army that defended southeastern Virginia early in the American Civil War before being absorbed into larger Confederate forces.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.