Battle of Sailor Creek
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The Battle of Sailor Creek was a major engagement of the American Civil War, fought on April 6, 1865 in Virginia, that resulted in a decisive Union victory and the capture of a large portion of Robert E. Lee’s army shortly before its surrender at Appomattox.
All labels observed (1)
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| Battle of Sailor Creek canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8761912 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Sailor Creek Context triple: [Battle of Sailor’s Creek, alsoKnownAs, Battle of Sailor Creek]
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Battle of Alligator Creek
The Battle of Alligator Creek was an early World War II clash during the Guadalcanal Campaign in which U.S. Marines repelled a major Japanese assault, helping secure their foothold on the island.
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Battle of Baker’s Creek
The Battle of Baker’s Creek, more commonly known as the Battle of Champion Hill, was a pivotal 1863 American Civil War engagement in the Vicksburg Campaign that resulted in a significant Union victory over Confederate forces in Mississippi.
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Battle of Hoople’s Creek
The Battle of Hoople’s Creek was a minor engagement of the War of 1812 in which British and Canadian forces skirmished with advancing American troops in eastern Upper Canada shortly before the Battle of Crysler’s Farm.
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Battle of Savage’s Station
The Battle of Savage’s Station was an 1862 American Civil War engagement during the Peninsula Campaign in which Union forces retreating toward the James River clashed with pursuing Confederate troops in Henrico County, Virginia.
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Battle of Cool Spring
The Battle of Cool Spring was an American Civil War engagement fought in July 1864 in Virginia, where Union forces attempted to cross the Shenandoah River and were repulsed by Confederate troops under General Jubal Early.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Sailor Creek Target entity description: The Battle of Sailor Creek was a major engagement of the American Civil War, fought on April 6, 1865 in Virginia, that resulted in a decisive Union victory and the capture of a large portion of Robert E. Lee’s army shortly before its surrender at Appomattox.
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A.
Battle of Alligator Creek
The Battle of Alligator Creek was an early World War II clash during the Guadalcanal Campaign in which U.S. Marines repelled a major Japanese assault, helping secure their foothold on the island.
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B.
Battle of Baker’s Creek
The Battle of Baker’s Creek, more commonly known as the Battle of Champion Hill, was a pivotal 1863 American Civil War engagement in the Vicksburg Campaign that resulted in a significant Union victory over Confederate forces in Mississippi.
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C.
Battle of Hoople’s Creek
The Battle of Hoople’s Creek was a minor engagement of the War of 1812 in which British and Canadian forces skirmished with advancing American troops in eastern Upper Canada shortly before the Battle of Crysler’s Farm.
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D.
Battle of Savage’s Station
The Battle of Savage’s Station was an 1862 American Civil War engagement during the Peninsula Campaign in which Union forces retreating toward the James River clashed with pursuing Confederate troops in Henrico County, Virginia.
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E.
Battle of Cool Spring
The Battle of Cool Spring was an American Civil War engagement fought in July 1864 in Virginia, where Union forces attempted to cross the Shenandoah River and were repulsed by Confederate troops under General Jubal Early.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Battle of Sailor Creek Description of subject: The Battle of Sailor Creek was a major engagement of the American Civil War, fought on April 6, 1865 in Virginia, that resulted in a decisive Union victory and the capture of a large portion of Robert E. Lee’s army shortly before its surrender at Appomattox.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.