1st Texas Infantry
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The 1st Texas Infantry was a Confederate Civil War regiment from Texas that fought in many major battles, including the Gettysburg campaign.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 1st Texas Infantry Regiment | 2 |
| 1st Texas Infantry canonical | 1 |
| First Texas Infantry | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T982534 — 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: 1st Texas Infantry Context triple: [Little Round Top, attackedBy, 1st Texas Infantry]
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A.
Army of Northern Virginia
The Army of Northern Virginia was the Confederacy’s principal field army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, renowned for its major campaigns and battles under General Robert E. Lee.
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B.
Texian Army
The Texian Army was the volunteer military force that fought for Texas's independence from Mexico during the Texas Revolution in the 1830s.
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C.
Confederate States Army
The Confederate States Army was the land warfare force of the secessionist Southern states during the American Civil War, known for figures like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
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D.
13th Light Dragoons
The 13th Light Dragoons was a British Army cavalry regiment best known for its role in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.
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E.
15th Infantry Regiment
The 15th Infantry Regiment was a German Army unit in which future Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus served during his early military career.
- 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: 1st Texas Infantry Target entity description: The 1st Texas Infantry was a Confederate Civil War regiment from Texas that fought in many major battles, including the Gettysburg campaign.
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A.
Army of Northern Virginia
The Army of Northern Virginia was the Confederacy’s principal field army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, renowned for its major campaigns and battles under General Robert E. Lee.
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B.
Texian Army
The Texian Army was the volunteer military force that fought for Texas's independence from Mexico during the Texas Revolution in the 1830s.
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C.
Confederate States Army
The Confederate States Army was the land warfare force of the secessionist Southern states during the American Civil War, known for figures like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
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D.
13th Light Dragoons
The 13th Light Dragoons was a British Army cavalry regiment best known for its role in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.
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E.
15th Infantry Regiment
The 15th Infantry Regiment was a German Army unit in which future Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus served during his early military career.
- 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: 1st Texas Infantry Description of subject: The 1st Texas Infantry was a Confederate Civil War regiment from Texas that fought in many major battles, including the Gettysburg campaign.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Little Round Top (nearby)
linked to: 1st Texas Infantry
linked to: 1st Texas Infantry
subject linked to:
Brigadier General Jerome B. Robertson
linked to: 1st Texas Infantry