15th Alabama Infantry
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The 15th Alabama Infantry was a Confederate Civil War regiment best known for its fierce but unsuccessful assault on Union positions at Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment | 2 |
| 15th Alabama Infantry canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T982535 — 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: 15th Alabama Infantry Context triple: [Little Round Top, attackedBy, 15th Alabama Infantry]
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A.
1st Texas Infantry
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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B.
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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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.
South Carolina militia
The South Carolina militia was a colonial-era military force composed of local settlers that played a key role in regional conflicts and frontier defense in what is now the U.S. state of South Carolina.
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E.
Arkansas National Guard
The Arkansas National Guard is a state military force that gained national attention in 1957 when it was deployed during the Little Rock school desegregation crisis, highlighting its role in both state security and civil rights-era conflicts.
- 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: 15th Alabama Infantry Target entity description: The 15th Alabama Infantry was a Confederate Civil War regiment best known for its fierce but unsuccessful assault on Union positions at Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg.
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A.
1st Texas Infantry
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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B.
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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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.
South Carolina militia
The South Carolina militia was a colonial-era military force composed of local settlers that played a key role in regional conflicts and frontier defense in what is now the U.S. state of South Carolina.
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E.
Arkansas National Guard
The Arkansas National Guard is a state military force that gained national attention in 1957 when it was deployed during the Little Rock school desegregation crisis, highlighting its role in both state security and civil rights-era conflicts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: 15th Alabama Infantry Description of subject: The 15th Alabama Infantry was a Confederate Civil War regiment best known for its fierce but unsuccessful assault on Union positions at Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Little Round Top (nearby)
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s bayonet charge at Little Round Top
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