White Bird Fight
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White Bird Fight is the common name for the opening battle of the 1877 Nez Perce War between the Nez Perce people and the United States Army in Idaho Territory.
All labels observed (1)
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| White Bird Fight canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11131601 — 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: White Bird Fight Context triple: [Battle of White Bird Canyon, alsoKnownAs, White Bird Fight]
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Dull Knife Fight
Dull Knife Fight was a key 1876 battle in which U.S. Army forces attacked the Northern Cheyenne village of Chief Dull Knife during the Great Sioux War.
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Rosebud Fight
Rosebud Fight is an alternative name for the 1876 Battle of the Rosebud, a significant engagement in the Great Sioux War between U.S. forces and a coalition of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne warriors.
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Red Cloud's War
Red Cloud's War was an armed conflict from 1866 to 1868 in which Oglala Lakota leader Red Cloud successfully resisted U.S. military expansion along the Bozeman Trail in present-day Wyoming and Montana.
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Dodge City War
The Dodge City War was an 1883 bloodless conflict in Dodge City, Kansas, involving a standoff between rival lawmen and saloon interests that epitomized the power struggles and lawlessness of the American Wild West.
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Ghost Dance War
The Ghost Dance War was a late 19th-century conflict between the U.S. Army and several Native American tribes, culminating in the Wounded Knee Massacre and effectively ending large-scale Indigenous armed resistance on the Great Plains.
- 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: White Bird Fight Target entity description: White Bird Fight is the common name for the opening battle of the 1877 Nez Perce War between the Nez Perce people and the United States Army in Idaho Territory.
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A.
Dull Knife Fight
Dull Knife Fight was a key 1876 battle in which U.S. Army forces attacked the Northern Cheyenne village of Chief Dull Knife during the Great Sioux War.
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B.
Rosebud Fight
Rosebud Fight is an alternative name for the 1876 Battle of the Rosebud, a significant engagement in the Great Sioux War between U.S. forces and a coalition of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne warriors.
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C.
Red Cloud's War
Red Cloud's War was an armed conflict from 1866 to 1868 in which Oglala Lakota leader Red Cloud successfully resisted U.S. military expansion along the Bozeman Trail in present-day Wyoming and Montana.
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D.
Dodge City War
The Dodge City War was an 1883 bloodless conflict in Dodge City, Kansas, involving a standoff between rival lawmen and saloon interests that epitomized the power struggles and lawlessness of the American Wild West.
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E.
Ghost Dance War
The Ghost Dance War was a late 19th-century conflict between the U.S. Army and several Native American tribes, culminating in the Wounded Knee Massacre and effectively ending large-scale Indigenous armed resistance on the Great Plains.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: White Bird Fight Description of subject: White Bird Fight is the common name for the opening battle of the 1877 Nez Perce War between the Nez Perce people and the United States Army in Idaho Territory.
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