United States Army Department of the Platte
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The United States Army Department of the Platte was a 19th-century administrative military district responsible for overseeing U.S. Army operations across parts of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| United States Army Department of the Platte canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10473053 — 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: United States Army Department of the Platte Context triple: [Fort Reno, controlledBy, United States Army Department of the Platte]
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A.
U.S. Army Department of the Columbia
The U.S. Army Department of the Columbia was a 19th-century military administrative district of the United States Army responsible for overseeing army operations and defense in the Pacific Northwest region.
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B.
Military Division of the Missouri
The Military Division of the Missouri was a major U.S. Army administrative command in the late 19th century responsible for overseeing military operations and frontier posts across much of the central and western United States.
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C.
Fort Riley
Fort Riley is a major U.S. Army installation in northeastern Kansas that serves as home to the 1st Infantry Division and other military units.
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D.
Army of the Missouri
The Army of the Missouri was a Union field army that operated in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, participating in campaigns across the Trans-Mississippi region.
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E.
Fort Ellsworth
Fort Ellsworth was a 19th-century U.S. Army frontier post in Kansas that played a key role in protecting settlers and trade routes during westward expansion.
- 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: United States Army Department of the Platte Target entity description: The United States Army Department of the Platte was a 19th-century administrative military district responsible for overseeing U.S. Army operations across parts of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions.
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A.
U.S. Army Department of the Columbia
The U.S. Army Department of the Columbia was a 19th-century military administrative district of the United States Army responsible for overseeing army operations and defense in the Pacific Northwest region.
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B.
Military Division of the Missouri
The Military Division of the Missouri was a major U.S. Army administrative command in the late 19th century responsible for overseeing military operations and frontier posts across much of the central and western United States.
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C.
Fort Riley
Fort Riley is a major U.S. Army installation in northeastern Kansas that serves as home to the 1st Infantry Division and other military units.
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D.
Army of the Missouri
The Army of the Missouri was a Union field army that operated in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, participating in campaigns across the Trans-Mississippi region.
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E.
Fort Ellsworth
Fort Ellsworth was a 19th-century U.S. Army frontier post in Kansas that played a key role in protecting settlers and trade routes during westward expansion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army department
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military administrative district ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
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| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasMainTask |
conduct military operations against Native American tribes
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oversee U.S. Army operations in parts of the Great Plains ⓘ oversee U.S. Army operations in parts of the Rocky Mountain region ⓘ protect overland migration routes ⓘ support frontier forts and posts ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Great Plains
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Rocky Mountains region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Military Division of the Missouri
NERFINISHED
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United States Army ⓘ |
| temporalCoverage | 19th century ⓘ |
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: United States Army Department of the Platte Description of subject: The United States Army Department of the Platte was a 19th-century administrative military district responsible for overseeing U.S. Army operations across parts of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.