Battle of Beaver Dam Creek
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The Battle of Beaver Dam Creek was an 1862 American Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, in which Union forces repelled Confederate attacks during the Peninsula Campaign’s Seven Days Battles.
All labels observed (1)
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| Battle of Beaver Dam Creek canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1992084 — 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 Beaver Dam Creek Context triple: [Seven Days Battles, includesBattle, Battle of Beaver Dam Creek]
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Battle of Fishing Creek
The Battle of Fishing Creek was a 1780 American Revolutionary War engagement in South Carolina in which British forces under Banastre Tarleton surprised and defeated Patriot militia led by Thomas Sumter.
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Battle of Brier Creek
The Battle of Brier Creek was a 1779 American Revolutionary War engagement in Georgia in which British forces routed a Continental army, helping to reassert British control over the state.
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Battle of Fort Nelson
The Battle of Fort Nelson was a late 17th-century conflict in Hudson Bay in which French forces under Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville captured an English trading post, asserting French influence over the fur trade in the region.
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Battle of Alligator Creek
The Battle of Alligator Creek was an early World War II clash during the Guadalcanal Campaign in which U.S. Marines repelled a major Japanese assault, helping secure their foothold on the island.
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Battle of Wahoo Swamp
The Battle of Wahoo Swamp was a major 1836 engagement in Florida between U.S. forces and Seminole warriors that highlighted the difficulty of suppressing Native resistance during the Second Seminole 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: Battle of Beaver Dam Creek Target entity description: The Battle of Beaver Dam Creek was an 1862 American Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, in which Union forces repelled Confederate attacks during the Peninsula Campaign’s Seven Days Battles.
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A.
Battle of Fishing Creek
The Battle of Fishing Creek was a 1780 American Revolutionary War engagement in South Carolina in which British forces under Banastre Tarleton surprised and defeated Patriot militia led by Thomas Sumter.
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B.
Battle of Brier Creek
The Battle of Brier Creek was a 1779 American Revolutionary War engagement in Georgia in which British forces routed a Continental army, helping to reassert British control over the state.
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C.
Battle of Fort Nelson
The Battle of Fort Nelson was a late 17th-century conflict in Hudson Bay in which French forces under Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville captured an English trading post, asserting French influence over the fur trade in the region.
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D.
Battle of Alligator Creek
The Battle of Alligator Creek was an early World War II clash during the Guadalcanal Campaign in which U.S. Marines repelled a major Japanese assault, helping secure their foothold on the island.
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E.
Battle of Wahoo Swamp
The Battle of Wahoo Swamp was a major 1836 engagement in Florida between U.S. forces and Seminole warriors that highlighted the difficulty of suppressing Native resistance during the Second Seminole War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
How these facts were elicited
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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 Beaver Dam Creek Description of subject: The Battle of Beaver Dam Creek was an 1862 American Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, in which Union forces repelled Confederate attacks during the Peninsula Campaign’s Seven Days Battles.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Battle of Gaines's Mill