Battle of Cedar Mountain
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The Battle of Cedar Mountain was an American Civil War engagement in August 1862 in Virginia, where Confederate forces under Stonewall Jackson clashed with Union troops as part of the Northern Virginia Campaign.
All labels observed (1)
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| Battle of Cedar Mountain canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2734650 — 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: Battle of Cedar Mountain Context triple: [Culpeper County, Virginia, hasHistoricEvent, Battle of Cedar Mountain]
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Battle of Front Royal
The Battle of Front Royal was an 1862 American Civil War engagement in Virginia where Confederate forces under Stonewall Jackson achieved a key victory that helped drive Union troops from the Shenandoah Valley.
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B.
Battle of Mechanicsville
The Battle of Mechanicsville was an 1862 American Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, marking the opening clash of Robert E. Lee’s Seven Days Campaign against Union forces during the Peninsula Campaign.
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C.
Second Battle of Winchester
The Second Battle of Winchester was a major Confederate victory in June 1863 during the American Civil War that opened the Shenandoah Valley for Robert E. Lee’s army and set the stage for the Gettysburg Campaign.
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First Battle of Winchester
The First Battle of Winchester was a major early American Civil War engagement in May 1862, in which Confederate forces under Stonewall Jackson defeated Union troops, contributing to his famed Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
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E.
Battle of Gaines’s Mill
The Battle of Gaines’s Mill was a major American Civil War engagement in June 1862 during the Peninsula Campaign, marking Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s first major victory over Union forces near Richmond, Virginia.
- 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: Battle of Cedar Mountain Target entity description: The Battle of Cedar Mountain was an American Civil War engagement in August 1862 in Virginia, where Confederate forces under Stonewall Jackson clashed with Union troops as part of the Northern Virginia Campaign.
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A.
Battle of Front Royal
The Battle of Front Royal was an 1862 American Civil War engagement in Virginia where Confederate forces under Stonewall Jackson achieved a key victory that helped drive Union troops from the Shenandoah Valley.
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B.
Battle of Mechanicsville
The Battle of Mechanicsville was an 1862 American Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, marking the opening clash of Robert E. Lee’s Seven Days Campaign against Union forces during the Peninsula Campaign.
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C.
Second Battle of Winchester
The Second Battle of Winchester was a major Confederate victory in June 1863 during the American Civil War that opened the Shenandoah Valley for Robert E. Lee’s army and set the stage for the Gettysburg Campaign.
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D.
First Battle of Winchester
The First Battle of Winchester was a major early American Civil War engagement in May 1862, in which Confederate forces under Stonewall Jackson defeated Union troops, contributing to his famed Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
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E.
Battle of Gaines’s Mill
The Battle of Gaines’s Mill was a major American Civil War engagement in June 1862 during the Peninsula Campaign, marking Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s first major victory over Union forces near Richmond, Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Battle of Cedar Mountain Description of subject: The Battle of Cedar Mountain was an American Civil War engagement in August 1862 in Virginia, where Confederate forces under Stonewall Jackson clashed with Union troops as part of the Northern Virginia Campaign.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Brigadier General Harry T. Hays
subject linked to:
Stoddert
subject linked to:
Charles Winder
subject linked to:
Charles Winder