Butler’s Woman Order
E736467
Butler’s Woman Order was a controversial 1862 directive issued by Union General Benjamin Butler in occupied New Orleans that threatened to treat women showing contempt for Union soldiers as prostitutes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Butler's Woman Order | 1 |
| Butler’s Woman Order canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8466470 — 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: Butler’s Woman Order Context triple: [General Order No. 28 (New Orleans "Woman Order"), alsoKnownAs, Butler’s Woman Order]
-
A.
League of Women
The League of Women was a mass women’s organization in communist Poland that mobilized and represented women under the auspices of the ruling Polish United Workers’ Party.
-
B.
Woman’s Relief Corps
The Woman’s Relief Corps was a patriotic women’s organization founded in the late 19th century to support Union Civil War veterans, their families, and related charitable and memorial activities.
-
C.
Ancient Order of Saint Barbara
The Ancient Order of Saint Barbara is the higher honorary grade within the U.S. military’s Order of Saint Barbara, recognizing exceptional service and contributions to the field artillery and air defense artillery communities.
-
D.
Honorable Order of Saint Barbara
The Honorable Order of Saint Barbara is a U.S. military honor recognizing exceptional service and professional excellence within the Army and Marine Corps artillery communities.
-
E.
The Order of the Gospel
The Order of the Gospel is a 17th-century religious treatise by Puritan minister Increase Mather that outlines principles of church government and discipline in early New England Congregationalism.
- 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: Butler’s Woman Order Target entity description: Butler’s Woman Order was a controversial 1862 directive issued by Union General Benjamin Butler in occupied New Orleans that threatened to treat women showing contempt for Union soldiers as prostitutes.
-
A.
League of Women
The League of Women was a mass women’s organization in communist Poland that mobilized and represented women under the auspices of the ruling Polish United Workers’ Party.
-
B.
Woman’s Relief Corps
The Woman’s Relief Corps was a patriotic women’s organization founded in the late 19th century to support Union Civil War veterans, their families, and related charitable and memorial activities.
-
C.
Ancient Order of Saint Barbara
The Ancient Order of Saint Barbara is the higher honorary grade within the U.S. military’s Order of Saint Barbara, recognizing exceptional service and contributions to the field artillery and air defense artillery communities.
-
D.
Honorable Order of Saint Barbara
The Honorable Order of Saint Barbara is a U.S. military honor recognizing exceptional service and professional excellence within the Army and Marine Corps artillery communities.
-
E.
The Order of the Gospel
The Order of the Gospel is a 17th-century religious treatise by Puritan minister Increase Mather that outlines principles of church government and discipline in early New England Congregationalism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
controversy
ⓘ
military order ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
General Order No. 28
ⓘ
Woman Order ⓘ |
| appliedIn |
New Orleans
ⓘ
Union-occupied New Orleans ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Benjamin Butler’s reputation as “Beast Butler”
ⓘ
Union occupation policy in New Orleans ⓘ |
| belligerentSide | Union ⓘ |
| condemnedAs |
insult to womanhood
ⓘ
violation of civilized warfare norms ⓘ |
| consequenceThreatened |
women could be arrested as prostitutes
ⓘ
women could lose protections normally accorded to ladies ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticizedBy |
British public opinion
ⓘ
Confederate government ⓘ
linked to:
Confederate States authorities
European newspapers ⓘ Jefferson Davis ⓘ Southern press ⓘ |
| dateIssued | 1862-05-15 ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
became a symbol of harsh Union occupation measures
ⓘ
raised questions about gender, honor, and military authority in wartime ⓘ used in Confederate propaganda to depict Union brutality ⓘ |
| issuedBy |
Benjamin Butler
ⓘ
linked to:
Benjamin F. Butler
Union Army ⓘ |
| issuedDuring | American Civil War ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | occupied Confederate territory ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalBasisClaimed | military necessity ⓘ |
| locationIssued | New Orleans ⓘ |
| mainProvision |
women insulting or showing contempt for Union soldiers could be treated as prostitutes
ⓘ
women showing contempt for officers or soldiers of the United States could be regarded and held liable as women of the town plying their avocation ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
biographies of Benjamin Butler
ⓘ
histories of the American Civil War ⓘ |
| purpose |
to deter public insults and acts of contempt by women toward Union troops
ⓘ
to maintain public order in occupied New Orleans ⓘ |
| reaction |
diplomatic protests from foreign observers
ⓘ
increased Southern propaganda against Benjamin Butler ⓘ international outcry ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Union occupation of New Orleans
ⓘ
civil-military relations in occupied cities ⓘ laws and customs of war ⓘ |
| targetedGroup |
female civilians
ⓘ
women in New Orleans ⓘ |
| yearIssued | 1862 ⓘ |
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: Butler’s Woman Order Description of subject: Butler’s Woman Order was a controversial 1862 directive issued by Union General Benjamin Butler in occupied New Orleans that threatened to treat women showing contempt for Union soldiers as prostitutes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Butler’s Woman Order