Hays's Brigade
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Hays's Brigade was a Confederate infantry brigade from Louisiana, famed for its fierce fighting in major Civil War battles such as Gettysburg under the command of General Harry T. Hays.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hays's Brigade canonical | 1 |
| Hays’ Louisiana Brigade | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5810007 — 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: Hays's Brigade Context triple: [Harry T. Hays, notableCommand, Hays's Brigade]
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A.
Armistead's Brigade
Armistead's Brigade was a Confederate infantry brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War, noted for its role in Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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B.
Kemper’s Brigade
Kemper’s Brigade was a Confederate infantry brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, best known for its role in Pickett’s Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Barksdale’s Brigade
Barksdale’s Brigade was a Confederate infantry brigade from Mississippi, commanded by Brigadier General William Barksdale, noted for its fierce assaults during major battles such as Gettysburg in the American Civil War.
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D.
26th Yankee Brigade
The 26th Yankee Brigade is a National Guard infantry brigade of the United States Army with historic roots in Massachusetts’ famed 26th "Yankee" Division.
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E.
McLaws’s Division
McLaws’s Division was a Confederate infantry division in the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Major General Lafayette McLaws and noted for its prominent role in major battles such as Gettysburg.
- 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: Hays's Brigade Target entity description: Hays's Brigade was a Confederate infantry brigade from Louisiana, famed for its fierce fighting in major Civil War battles such as Gettysburg under the command of General Harry T. Hays.
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A.
Armistead's Brigade
Armistead's Brigade was a Confederate infantry brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War, noted for its role in Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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B.
Kemper’s Brigade
Kemper’s Brigade was a Confederate infantry brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, best known for its role in Pickett’s Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg.
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C.
Barksdale’s Brigade
Barksdale’s Brigade was a Confederate infantry brigade from Mississippi, commanded by Brigadier General William Barksdale, noted for its fierce assaults during major battles such as Gettysburg in the American Civil War.
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D.
26th Yankee Brigade
The 26th Yankee Brigade is a National Guard infantry brigade of the United States Army with historic roots in Massachusetts’ famed 26th "Yankee" Division.
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E.
McLaws’s Division
McLaws’s Division was a Confederate infantry division in the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Major General Lafayette McLaws and noted for its prominent role in major battles such as Gettysburg.
- 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: Hays's Brigade Description of subject: Hays's Brigade was a Confederate infantry brigade from Louisiana, famed for its fierce fighting in major Civil War battles such as Gettysburg under the command of General Harry T. Hays.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Brigadier General Harry T. Hays
linked to: Hays's Brigade