American Revolutionary era

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historical era period of United States history

The American Revolutionary era was the late-18th-century period in which the thirteen American colonies broke from British rule, fought the Revolutionary War, and laid the political and ideological foundations for the United States.

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All labels observed (24)

Label	Occurrences
American Revolution	157
American Revolutionary era canonical	135
American Revolutionary period	45
American Revolutionary War era	12
American Revolution era	11
American Revolutionary War (political leadership)	5
American Founding Era	3
American independence movement	3
Founding Era of the United States	3
American Revolutionary movement	2
Founding era of the United States	2
Founding of the United States	2
the American Revolution	2
American Revolution (political leadership)	1
American Revolution (prelude)	1
American Revolution period	1
American Revolutionary crisis	1
American Revolutionary era (late colonial period)	1
American Revolutionary era (political developments)	1
American Revolutionary era politics	1
American colonial resistance movement	1
American revolutionary movement	1
the American Revolution fundamentally transformed American society	1
the American Revolution transformed political relationships and authority structures	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T324765 — 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: American Revolutionary era
Context triple: [United States constitutional history, focusesOnPeriod, American Revolutionary era]

A. American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War was an 18th-century conflict in which the thirteen American colonies fought for and won independence from Great Britain, leading to the founding of the United States.
B. Early Republic of the United States
The Early Republic of the United States was the formative period from the 1790s to the 1820s when the new nation established its political institutions, financial system, and party politics under the Constitution following the American Revolution.
C. Colonial America
Colonial America refers to the period of European, primarily British, settlement and rule in what is now the United States, characterized by developing colonies, frontier expansion, and evolving political, social, and religious institutions prior to independence.
D. American Enlightenment
The American Enlightenment was an intellectual and cultural movement in 18th-century America that emphasized reason, science, and individual rights, profoundly shaping the ideals of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.
E. Townshend Acts era
The Townshend Acts era was a late-1760s phase of escalating tension between Britain and its American colonies, marked by new parliamentary taxes on imports, colonial resistance, and growing political crisis that helped set the stage for the American Revolution.
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: American Revolutionary era
Target entity description: The American Revolutionary era was the late-18th-century period in which the thirteen American colonies broke from British rule, fought the Revolutionary War, and laid the political and ideological foundations for the United States.

A. American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War was an 18th-century conflict in which the thirteen American colonies fought for and won independence from Great Britain, leading to the founding of the United States.
B. Early Republic of the United States
The Early Republic of the United States was the formative period from the 1790s to the 1820s when the new nation established its political institutions, financial system, and party politics under the Constitution following the American Revolution.
C. Colonial America
Colonial America refers to the period of European, primarily British, settlement and rule in what is now the United States, characterized by developing colonies, frontier expansion, and evolving political, social, and religious institutions prior to independence.
D. American Enlightenment
The American Enlightenment was an intellectual and cultural movement in 18th-century America that emphasized reason, science, and individual rights, profoundly shaping the ideals of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.
E. Townshend Acts era
The Townshend Acts era was a late-1760s phase of escalating tension between Britain and its American colonies, marked by new parliamentary taxes on imports, colonial resistance, and growing political crisis that helped set the stage for the American Revolution.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (63)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical era ⓘ period of United States history ⓘ
countryInvolved	Dutch Republic ⓘ France ⓘ Great Britain ⓘ Spain ⓘ United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
field	Atlantic history ⓘ linked to: Atlantic world intellectual history ⓘ military history ⓘ political history ⓘ
followedBy	Early national period of the United States ⓘ
follows	Colonial America ⓘ
hasCause	British imperial taxation policies ⓘ Seven Years' War debt ⓘ growing American political identity ⓘ lack of colonial representation in Parliament ⓘ
hasEffect	creation of republican institutions in the United States ⓘ decline of British authority in North America ⓘ independence of the United States ⓘ linked to: Union of the American states inspiration for other Atlantic revolutions ⓘ
hasEndTime	1789 ⓘ
hasIdeology	classical liberalism ⓘ natural rights philosophy ⓘ popular sovereignty ⓘ republicanism ⓘ
hasKeyFigure	Alexander Hamilton ⓘ Benjamin Franklin ⓘ George Washington ⓘ James Madison ⓘ John Adams ⓘ King George III ⓘ linked to: George III of the United Kingdom Thomas Jefferson ⓘ
hasPart	American Founding ⓘ linked to: United States Founding Fathers American Revolution ⓘ linked to: American Revolutionary War American Revolutionary War ⓘ American War of Independence ⓘ linked to: American Revolutionary War American independence movement ⓘ Confederation period ⓘ ratification of the United States Constitution ⓘ
hasStartTime	1763 ⓘ
influenced	French Revolution ⓘ Haitian Revolution ⓘ Latin American wars of independence ⓘ linked to: Latin American independence movements
influencedBy	British constitutional tradition ⓘ Enlightenment ⓘ linked to: Age of Enlightenment
location	Atlantic world ⓘ British America ⓘ Thirteen Colonies ⓘ
mainConflict	American Revolutionary War ⓘ
significantEvent	Articles of Confederation ⓘ Battles of Lexington and Concord ⓘ Boston Massacre ⓘ Boston Tea Party ⓘ Declaration of Independence ⓘ linked to: American Declaration of Independence First Continental Congress ⓘ Intolerable Acts ⓘ Philadelphia Convention ⓘ Second Continental Congress ⓘ Shays' Rebellion ⓘ Stamp Act crisis ⓘ linked to: Stamp Act 1765 Treaty of Paris 1783 ⓘ linked to: Treaty of Paris (1783) ratification of the Bill of Rights ⓘ

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