Bennett Place surrender

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event of the American Civil War military surrender

The Bennett Place surrender was the largest troop capitulation of the American Civil War, marking the effective end of major Confederate resistance in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Bennett Place	2
Bennett Place surrender canonical	1
Bennett Place, North Carolina	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3645436 — 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: Bennett Place surrender
Context triple: [Carolinas Campaign, relatedSurrender, Bennett Place surrender]

A. Battle of Appomattox Court House
The Battle of Appomattox Court House was the final major engagement of the American Civil War in Virginia, leading to General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865.
B. Appomattox Campaign
The Appomattox Campaign was the final series of military operations in the American Civil War that led to the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in April 1865.
C. Battle of Appomattox Station
The Battle of Appomattox Station was a late–Civil War engagement in April 1865 in which Union forces captured Confederate supply trains near Appomattox, hastening General Robert E. Lee’s surrender.
D. Battle of New Hope Church
The Battle of New Hope Church was a significant 1864 engagement in the American Civil War’s Atlanta Campaign, where Union and Confederate forces clashed in a bloody but indecisive fight in Georgia.
E. 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.
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: Bennett Place surrender
Target entity description: The Bennett Place surrender was the largest troop capitulation of the American Civil War, marking the effective end of major Confederate resistance in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.

A. Battle of Appomattox Court House
The Battle of Appomattox Court House was the final major engagement of the American Civil War in Virginia, leading to General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865.
B. Appomattox Campaign
The Appomattox Campaign was the final series of military operations in the American Civil War that led to the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in April 1865.
C. Battle of Appomattox Station
The Battle of Appomattox Station was a late–Civil War engagement in April 1865 in which Union forces captured Confederate supply trains near Appomattox, hastening General Robert E. Lee’s surrender.
D. Battle of New Hope Church
The Battle of New Hope Church was a significant 1864 engagement in the American Civil War’s Atlanta Campaign, where Union and Confederate forces clashed in a bloody but indecisive fight in Georgia.
E. 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.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	event of the American Civil War ⓘ military surrender ⓘ
agreementType	military capitulation ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	surrender at Bennett Farm ⓘ surrender at Bennett Place ⓘ
approvedBy	Confederate military leadership ⓘ surface form: Confederate authorities under Jefferson Davis United States government ⓘ
belligerent	Confederate States Army ⓘ Union Army ⓘ
casualties	minimal combat casualties associated with the surrender itself ⓘ
category	History of North Carolina during the American Civil War ⓘ Surrenders of the American Civil War ⓘ
chronologyPosition	one of the final major Confederate surrenders of the war ⓘ
commandedBy	Joseph E. Johnston ⓘ William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ
commemoratedBy	Bennett Place State Historic Site ⓘ
conflict	American Civil War ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
date	1865-04-26 ⓘ
documentedIn	official records of the War of the Rebellion ⓘ
effect	accelerated collapse of the Confederate war effort ⓘ disbandment of large Confederate field armies in the Southeast ⓘ
endDate	1865-04-26 ⓘ
followedBy	subsequent smaller Confederate surrenders in 1865 ⓘ
involves	Army of Tennessee ⓘ Confederate States Armed Forces ⓘ surface form: Confederate forces in the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida Military Division of the Mississippi ⓘ surface form: Union Military Division of the Mississippi
location	Bennett Place surrender self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina ⓘ
negotiatedBy	Joseph E. Johnston ⓘ William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ
partOf	Appomattox campaign aftermath ⓘ
precededBy	surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House ⓘ
relatedTo	Reconstruction era ⓘ end of the American Civil War ⓘ
result	Union victory ⓘ surrender of Confederate forces in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida ⓘ
signedAt	Bennett family farmhouse ⓘ
significance	effectively ended major Confederate resistance in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida ⓘ largest troop capitulation of the American Civil War ⓘ
startDate	1865-04-17 ⓘ
state	North Carolina ⓘ
year	1865 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Carolinas Campaign → relatedSurrender → Bennett Place surrender ⓘ

Joseph E. Johnston → placeOfSurrender → Bennett Place surrender ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bennett Place, North Carolina

Durham–Chapel Hill metropolitan area → containsHistoricSite → Bennett Place surrender ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bennett Place

Bennett Place surrender → location → Bennett Place surrender self-linksurface differs ⓘ