CSS Florida
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CSS Florida was a Confederate commerce raider during the American Civil War, known for disrupting Union shipping across the Atlantic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CSS Florida canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5654720 — 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: CSS Florida Context triple: [James D. Bulloch, commissionedShip, CSS Florida]
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A.
FSFLA
FSFLA is the Latin American branch of the Free Software Foundation, dedicated to promoting and defending free software and users' digital freedoms across the region.
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B.
Florida Bar
The Florida Bar is the official statewide professional organization responsible for regulating and licensing attorneys and overseeing the practice of law in the state of Florida.
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C.
Florida law
Florida law is the body of statutes, regulations, and judicial decisions that govern legal rights, obligations, and procedures within the state of Florida.
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D.
Florida's Natural
Florida's Natural is a U.S.-based agricultural cooperative brand best known for producing and selling not-from-concentrate orange juice and other citrus beverages.
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E.
S.D. Fla.
S.D. Fla. is the standard legal abbreviation for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, a federal trial court within the Eleventh Circuit.
- 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: CSS Florida Target entity description: CSS Florida was a Confederate commerce raider during the American Civil War, known for disrupting Union shipping across the Atlantic.
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A.
FSFLA
FSFLA is the Latin American branch of the Free Software Foundation, dedicated to promoting and defending free software and users' digital freedoms across the region.
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B.
Florida Bar
The Florida Bar is the official statewide professional organization responsible for regulating and licensing attorneys and overseeing the practice of law in the state of Florida.
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C.
Florida law
Florida law is the body of statutes, regulations, and judicial decisions that govern legal rights, obligations, and procedures within the state of Florida.
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D.
Florida's Natural
Florida's Natural is a U.S.-based agricultural cooperative brand best known for producing and selling not-from-concentrate orange juice and other citrus beverages.
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E.
S.D. Fla.
S.D. Fla. is the standard legal abbreviation for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, a federal trial court within the Eleventh Circuit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate commerce raider
ⓘ
naval vessel ⓘ screw sloop-of-war ⓘ steam-powered warship ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| areaOfEffect | Union maritime trade ⓘ |
| armamentType | naval guns ⓘ |
| builderCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| builtFor | Confederate States Navy ⓘ |
| builtIn | Liverpool ⓘ |
| category |
Confederate States Navy ships
ⓘ
linked to:
Confederate States Navy
commerce raiders of the American Civil War ⓘ ships built in Liverpool ⓘ steamships of the Confederate States Navy ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| country | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| engagedIn | attacks on Union merchant vessels ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | one of the most successful Confederate commerce raiders ⓘ |
| laidDownIn | Liverpool ⓘ |
| navalTactic | guerre de course ⓘ |
| notableFor |
operating across the Atlantic as a commerce raider
ⓘ
raiding Union commercial shipping ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Confederate naval officers ⓘ |
| operationalPeriod | 1860s ⓘ |
| opponent |
Union Navy
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| originalName | Oreto ⓘ |
| primaryMission | disruption of Union merchant shipping ⓘ |
| propulsion |
sail
ⓘ
steam engine ⓘ |
| renamedAs | CSS Florida ⓘ |
| riggingType | bark-rigged ⓘ |
| role | commerce raider ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Confederate States Navy ⓘ |
| shipClass | Florida-class commerce raider ⓘ |
| shipFlag | naval ensign of the Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| shipType | sloop-of-war ⓘ |
| status | warship of the Confederate States Navy ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Caribbean Sea ⓘ North Atlantic ⓘ South Atlantic ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commerce raiding
ⓘ
naval warfare ⓘ |
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: CSS Florida Description of subject: CSS Florida was a Confederate commerce raider during the American Civil War, known for disrupting Union shipping across the Atlantic.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.