Maryland 400
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The Maryland 400 were a group of Continental Army soldiers from Maryland whose fierce rear-guard action at the 1776 Battle of Long Island helped save George Washington’s army from destruction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maryland 400 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11408146 — 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: Maryland 400 Context triple: [Maryland Monument in Prospect Park, dedicatedTo, Maryland 400]
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A.
President's Hundred
The President's Hundred is an elite group of the top 100 shooters recognized annually for their performance in the U.S. President's Rifle or Pistol Match.
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B.
Maryland militia
The Maryland militia was a state-based citizen-soldier force that provided local defense and participated in key engagements, including during the War of 1812.
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C.
Battle of Ridgefield
The Battle of Ridgefield was a 1777 Revolutionary War clash in Connecticut in which American forces, including Benedict Arnold, attempted to resist a British raid on military supplies.
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D.
Edenton Tea Party
The Edenton Tea Party was a 1774 political protest in Edenton, North Carolina, where women publicly pledged to boycott British tea and goods in one of the earliest organized women’s political actions in American history.
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E.
Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival
The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival is a long-running annual spring celebration in Winchester, Virginia, featuring parades, concerts, pageants, and community events centered around the region’s apple heritage.
- 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: Maryland 400 Target entity description: The Maryland 400 were a group of Continental Army soldiers from Maryland whose fierce rear-guard action at the 1776 Battle of Long Island helped save George Washington’s army from destruction.
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A.
President's Hundred
The President's Hundred is an elite group of the top 100 shooters recognized annually for their performance in the U.S. President's Rifle or Pistol Match.
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B.
Maryland militia
The Maryland militia was a state-based citizen-soldier force that provided local defense and participated in key engagements, including during the War of 1812.
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C.
Battle of Ridgefield
The Battle of Ridgefield was a 1777 Revolutionary War clash in Connecticut in which American forces, including Benedict Arnold, attempted to resist a British raid on military supplies.
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D.
Edenton Tea Party
The Edenton Tea Party was a 1774 political protest in Edenton, North Carolina, where women publicly pledged to boycott British tea and goods in one of the earliest organized women’s political actions in American history.
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E.
Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival
The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival is a long-running annual spring celebration in Winchester, Virginia, featuring parades, concerts, pageants, and community events centered around the region’s apple heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Continental Army unit
ⓘ
military unit ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Continental Congress
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| alsoKnownAs |
Gist’s Marylanders
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Smallwood’s Marylanders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | George Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battle | Battle of Long Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| casualties | heavy losses ⓘ |
| commander |
Mordecai Gist
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Smallwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| date | 1776 ⓘ |
| engagementType | rear-guard defense ⓘ |
| from | Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart | First Maryland Regiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | contributed to the survival of the main Continental Army in 1776 ⓘ |
| honorificName | Maryland 400 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legacy | remembered for bravery and sacrifice at the Battle of Long Island ⓘ |
| location | Long Island, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping save George Washington’s army from destruction
ⓘ
rear-guard action at the Battle of Long Island ⓘ |
| opponent | British Army ⓘ |
| partOf |
Continental Army
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maryland Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | rear guard ⓘ |
| typeOfUnit | infantry ⓘ |
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: Maryland 400 Description of subject: The Maryland 400 were a group of Continental Army soldiers from Maryland whose fierce rear-guard action at the 1776 Battle of Long Island helped save George Washington’s army from destruction.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.