Battle of Sailor’s Creek
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The Battle of Sailor’s Creek was a major Union victory in April 1865 that shattered a large portion of Robert E. Lee’s army during its retreat, hastening the Confederate surrender at Appomattox.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Battle of Sailor's Creek | 5 |
| Battle of Sailor’s Creek canonical | 3 |
| Battle of Little Sailor’s Creek | 1 |
| Battle of Sayler’s Creek | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1217571 — 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: Battle of Sailor’s Creek Context triple: [Appomattox Campaign, hasPart, Battle of Sailor’s Creek]
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A.
Battle of Hatcher's Run
The Battle of Hatcher's Run was a late–Civil War engagement in February 1865 in which Union forces extended their lines southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, helping to cut Confederate supply routes and tighten the noose around Robert E. Lee’s army.
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Battle of the Weldon Railroad
The Battle of the Weldon Railroad was an August 1864 American Civil War engagement in which Union forces seized and held a key Confederate supply line south of Petersburg, contributing significantly to the eventual fall of the city.
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Battle of Boydton Plank Road
The Battle of Boydton Plank Road was an 1864 American Civil War engagement in Virginia in which Union forces attempted to cut a key Confederate supply route during the protracted operations around Petersburg.
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D.
Battle of Five Forks
The Battle of Five Forks was a decisive American Civil War engagement in April 1865 in Virginia, where Union forces broke Confederate lines, leading directly to the fall of Petersburg and Richmond and the surrender at Appomattox.
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E.
Battle of Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major American Civil War engagement in 1863 in Virginia, noted for Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s audacious and tactically brilliant victory over a much larger Union force.
- 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: Battle of Sailor’s Creek Target entity description: The Battle of Sailor’s Creek was a major Union victory in April 1865 that shattered a large portion of Robert E. Lee’s army during its retreat, hastening the Confederate surrender at Appomattox.
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A.
Battle of Hatcher's Run
The Battle of Hatcher's Run was a late–Civil War engagement in February 1865 in which Union forces extended their lines southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, helping to cut Confederate supply routes and tighten the noose around Robert E. Lee’s army.
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B.
Battle of the Weldon Railroad
The Battle of the Weldon Railroad was an August 1864 American Civil War engagement in which Union forces seized and held a key Confederate supply line south of Petersburg, contributing significantly to the eventual fall of the city.
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C.
Battle of Boydton Plank Road
The Battle of Boydton Plank Road was an 1864 American Civil War engagement in Virginia in which Union forces attempted to cut a key Confederate supply route during the protracted operations around Petersburg.
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D.
Battle of Five Forks
The Battle of Five Forks was a decisive American Civil War engagement in April 1865 in Virginia, where Union forces broke Confederate lines, leading directly to the fall of Petersburg and Richmond and the surrender at Appomattox.
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E.
Battle of Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major American Civil War engagement in 1863 in Virginia, noted for Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s audacious and tactically brilliant victory over a much larger Union force.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Battle of Sailor’s Creek Description of subject: The Battle of Sailor’s Creek was a major Union victory in April 1865 that shattered a large portion of Robert E. Lee’s army during its retreat, hastening the Confederate surrender at Appomattox.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Battle of Sailor's Creek
this entity surface form:
Battle of Sailor's Creek
this entity surface form:
Battle of Sailor's Creek
this entity surface form:
Battle of Sailor's Creek
this entity surface form:
Battle of Sayler’s Creek
this entity surface form:
Battle of Little Sailor’s Creek
this entity surface form:
Battle of Sailor's Creek