Missouri (Confederate-held areas)
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Missouri (Confederate-held areas) refers to the portions of Missouri controlled or contested by the Confederacy during the American Civil War, where Confederate military forces operated and maintained positions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Missouri (Confederate-claimed areas) | 1 |
| Missouri (Confederate-held areas) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8400367 — 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: Missouri (Confederate-held areas) Context triple: [Confederate artillery, location, Missouri (Confederate-held areas)]
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A.
Missouri Bootheel
The Missouri Bootheel is the southeasternmost region of Missouri, known for its distinctive boot-shaped protrusion into Arkansas and its rich agricultural landscape in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain.
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B.
Dixie, Missouri
Dixie, Missouri is a small unincorporated rural community located in Callaway County in the U.S. state of Missouri.
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C.
Kentucky and Missouri
Kentucky and Missouri are neighboring U.S. states in the central United States whose shared boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River.
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D.
Military Division of the Mississippi
The Military Division of the Mississippi was a major Union Army command in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, overseeing multiple armies in operations against the Confederacy.
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E.
New Madrid, Missouri
New Madrid, Missouri is a small historic city in the southeastern corner of the state, best known for its proximity to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, the site of some of the most powerful earthquakes in U.S. history.
- 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: Missouri (Confederate-held areas) Target entity description: Missouri (Confederate-held areas) refers to the portions of Missouri controlled or contested by the Confederacy during the American Civil War, where Confederate military forces operated and maintained positions.
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A.
Missouri Bootheel
The Missouri Bootheel is the southeasternmost region of Missouri, known for its distinctive boot-shaped protrusion into Arkansas and its rich agricultural landscape in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain.
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B.
Dixie, Missouri
Dixie, Missouri is a small unincorporated rural community located in Callaway County in the U.S. state of Missouri.
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C.
Kentucky and Missouri
Kentucky and Missouri are neighboring U.S. states in the central United States whose shared boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River.
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D.
Military Division of the Mississippi
The Military Division of the Mississippi was a major Union Army command in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, overseeing multiple armies in operations against the Confederacy.
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E.
New Madrid, Missouri
New Madrid, Missouri is a small historic city in the southeastern corner of the state, best known for its proximity to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, the site of some of the most powerful earthquakes in U.S. history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Civil War location
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historical region ⓘ theater of war ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
guerrilla conflict
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irregular warfare ⓘ shifting front lines ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| contestedBy |
Union Army
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United States of America ⓘ |
| controlledBy |
Confederate States Army
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Missouri State Guard ⓘ |
| country | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| endTime | 1865 ⓘ |
| ethnicComposition | slaveholding population in many counties ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Ozark region of Missouri
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linked to:
Ozarks region (partly)
areas along the Missouri–Arkansas border ⓘ areas along the Missouri–Kansas border ⓘ southwestern Missouri ⓘ western Missouri border counties ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Missouri
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| militaryObjectiveOf |
Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department
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linked to:
Army of the Trans-Mississippi
Union Department of the Missouri ⓘ
linked to:
Department of the Missouri
|
| opposedBy |
Kansas Jayhawkers
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linked to:
Kansas Jayhawks
Union militia ⓘ Unionist guerrillas ⓘ |
| partOf |
Trans-Mississippi Theater
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Western Theater of the American Civil War ⓘ border states in the American Civil War ⓘ slave states that remained in the Union but had Confederate control in some areas ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | strong pro-Confederate sentiment in many rural areas ⓘ |
| politicalStatus |
claimed by Confederate government of Missouri
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claimed by Unionist state government of Missouri ⓘ |
| resultedIn |
civilian displacement
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local economic disruption ⓘ property destruction ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
Battle of Lexington (1861)
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linked to:
First Battle of Lexington
Battle of Pea Ridge ⓘ Battle of Wilson’s Creek ⓘ Guerrilla warfare in Missouri ⓘ |
| startTime | 1861 ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Confederate guerrillas
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linked to:
Bloody Bill Anderson's guerrilla band
Quantrill’s Raiders ⓘ
linked to:
Quantrill's Raiders
bushwhackers ⓘ pro-Confederate partisan rangers ⓘ |
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: Missouri (Confederate-held areas) Description of subject: Missouri (Confederate-held areas) refers to the portions of Missouri controlled or contested by the Confederacy during the American Civil War, where Confederate military forces operated and maintained positions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Isolation of the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy
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hasLocation
→
Missouri (Confederate-claimed areas)
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linked to: Missouri (Confederate-held areas)