Castro’s Rebel Army
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Castro’s Rebel Army was the guerrilla force led by Fidel Castro that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista during the Cuban Revolution.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Castro’s Rebel Army canonical | 1 |
| Fidel Castro's Rebel Army | 1 |
| Fidel Castro's guerrillas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8231345 — 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: Castro’s Rebel Army Context triple: [Rebel Army (Cuba), alsoKnownAs, Castro’s Rebel Army]
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A.
Alazanes de Granma
Alazanes de Granma is a Cuban professional baseball team from Granma Province that competes in the Cuban National Series and is known as one of the league’s strong contenders.
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B.
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War is a memoir by Che Guevara recounting his experiences and reflections during the Cuban Revolution.
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C.
Brigade 2506
Brigade 2506 was a CIA-sponsored paramilitary group of Cuban exiles that carried out the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion against Fidel Castro’s government.
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D.
Siervo de la Nación
Siervo de la Nación is the historic honorific title adopted by Mexican independence leader José María Morelos y Pavón to emphasize his role as a humble servant of the people and the emerging nation.
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E.
Guerra Grande
Guerra Grande is the Spanish name for the Ten Years' War, a major 19th-century Cuban struggle for independence from Spanish colonial rule.
- 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: Castro’s Rebel Army Target entity description: Castro’s Rebel Army was the guerrilla force led by Fidel Castro that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista during the Cuban Revolution.
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A.
Alazanes de Granma
Alazanes de Granma is a Cuban professional baseball team from Granma Province that competes in the Cuban National Series and is known as one of the league’s strong contenders.
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B.
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War is a memoir by Che Guevara recounting his experiences and reflections during the Cuban Revolution.
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C.
Brigade 2506
Brigade 2506 was a CIA-sponsored paramilitary group of Cuban exiles that carried out the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion against Fidel Castro’s government.
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D.
Siervo de la Nación
Siervo de la Nación is the historic honorific title adopted by Mexican independence leader José María Morelos y Pavón to emphasize his role as a humble servant of the people and the emerging nation.
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E.
Guerra Grande
Guerra Grande is the Spanish name for the Ten Years' War, a major 19th-century Cuban struggle for independence from Spanish colonial rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
armed group
ⓘ
guerrilla movement ⓘ |
| alliedWith | urban resistance groups in Havana ⓘ |
| contributedTo | collapse of Batista government ⓘ |
| country | Cuba ⓘ |
| endTime | 1959 ⓘ |
| foundedMedia | Radio Rebelde ⓘ |
| goal |
establishment of a revolutionary government in Cuba
ⓘ
overthrow of Fulgencio Batista ⓘ |
| headquarters |
Sierra Maestra
ⓘ
linked to:
Sierra Maestra mountains
|
| ideology |
Cuban nationalism
ⓘ
Marxism–Leninism ⓘ anti-imperialism ⓘ |
| language | Spanish ⓘ |
| leader | Fidel Castro ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Battle of La Plata
ⓘ
Battle of Las Mercedes ⓘ |
| notableCampaign |
Camilo Cienfuegos’s Column 2 advance toward Yaguajay
ⓘ
Che Guevara’s Column 8 advance toward Santa Clara ⓘ Ciro Redondo Column operations ⓘ |
| notableCommander |
Camilo Cienfuegos
ⓘ
Ernesto "Che" Guevara ⓘ
linked to:
Che Guevara
Fidel Castro ⓘ Juan Almeida Bosque ⓘ Raúl Castro ⓘ |
| notableLocation |
Comandancia de La Plata
ⓘ
La Plata base camp ⓘ |
| operationalArea | Oriente Province ⓘ |
| opposed | Fulgencio Batista ⓘ |
| opposedGovernment |
Batista regime
ⓘ
linked to:
Batista dictatorship
|
| originDate | 1956-12-02 ⓘ |
| originEvent | Granma landing ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Cuban Revolution ⓘ |
| partOf | 26th of July Movement ⓘ |
| politicalWing | 26th of July Movement ⓘ |
| resultedIn |
flight of Fulgencio Batista on 1959-01-01
ⓘ
seizure of power by Fidel Castro’s movement ⓘ |
| startTime | 1956 ⓘ |
| strengthEstimate |
few dozen fighters in 1956
ⓘ
several thousand fighters by 1958 ⓘ |
| successor | Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
rural peasants in eastern Cuba
ⓘ
urban underground networks ⓘ |
| usedTactic |
ambushes
ⓘ
hit-and-run attacks ⓘ propaganda through Radio Rebelde ⓘ sabotage ⓘ |
| usedWarfareStyle | guerrilla warfare ⓘ |
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Subject: Castro’s Rebel Army Description of subject: Castro’s Rebel Army was the guerrilla force led by Fidel Castro that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista during the Cuban Revolution.
Referenced by (3)
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