Army of the Cumberland
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The Army of the Cumberland was a major Union field army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, noted for its key role in campaigns such as Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and the drive toward Atlanta.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Army of the Cumberland canonical | 24 |
| Union Army of the Cumberland | 4 |
| Army of the Cumberland (interim command) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2196441 — 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 Cumberland Context triple: [Atlanta Campaign, unionArmyComponent, Army of the Cumberland]
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A.
Army of the Tennessee
The Army of the Tennessee was a major Union field army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, commanded at various times by generals such as Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman.
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B.
Army of the Ohio
The Army of the Ohio was a major Union field army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, active in key campaigns across Kentucky and Tennessee.
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C.
Army of Tennessee
The Army of Tennessee was a principal Confederate field army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, active in major campaigns such as Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Atlanta.
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D.
Army of Kentucky
The Army of Kentucky was a short-lived Confederate field army that operated primarily in the Western Theater during the American Civil War.
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E.
Army of the Potomac
The Army of the Potomac was the principal Union field army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, best known for its major campaigns against Confederate forces in Virginia.
- 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 Cumberland Target entity description: The Army of the Cumberland was a major Union field army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, noted for its key role in campaigns such as Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and the drive toward Atlanta.
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A.
Army of the Tennessee
The Army of the Tennessee was a major Union field army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, commanded at various times by generals such as Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman.
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B.
Army of the Ohio
The Army of the Ohio was a major Union field army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, active in key campaigns across Kentucky and Tennessee.
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C.
Army of Tennessee
The Army of Tennessee was a principal Confederate field army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, active in major campaigns such as Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Atlanta.
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D.
Army of Kentucky
The Army of Kentucky was a short-lived Confederate field army that operated primarily in the Western Theater during the American Civil War.
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E.
Army of the Potomac
The Army of the Potomac was the principal Union field army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, best known for its major campaigns against Confederate forces in Virginia.
- 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 Cumberland Description of subject: The Army of the Cumberland was a major Union field army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, noted for its key role in campaigns such as Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and the drive toward Atlanta.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Union Army of the Cumberland
this entity surface form:
Army of the Cumberland (interim command)
this entity surface form:
Union Army of the Cumberland
subject surface form:
Gettysburg of the West
this entity surface form:
Union Army of the Cumberland
this entity surface form:
Union Army of the Cumberland