Sharpsburg, Maryland
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Sharpsburg, Maryland is a small historic town in Washington County best known as the site of the Civil War Battle of Antietam.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sharpsburg, Maryland canonical | 21 |
| Sharpsburg battlefield | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T470778 — 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: Sharpsburg, Maryland Context triple: [Antietam Creek, near, Sharpsburg, Maryland]
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Manassas
Manassas is an independent city in Northern Virginia best known as the site of two major American Civil War battles and now a suburban community within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, is a historic town best known as the site of the pivotal 1863 Civil War battle and Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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City of Manassas Park, Virginia
The City of Manassas Park, Virginia is an independent, suburban city in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., known for its residential communities and proximity to major regional transportation corridors.
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D.
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Manassas National Battlefield Park is a preserved Civil War battlefield in Virginia that commemorates the First and Second Battles of Bull Run through historic landscapes, monuments, and visitor exhibits.
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Antietam Creek, Maryland
Antietam Creek in Maryland is a historic waterway best known as the site of the Battle of Antietam, one of the bloodiest and most consequential engagements of the American Civil War.
- 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: Sharpsburg, Maryland Target entity description: Sharpsburg, Maryland is a small historic town in Washington County best known as the site of the Civil War Battle of Antietam.
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A.
Manassas
Manassas is an independent city in Northern Virginia best known as the site of two major American Civil War battles and now a suburban community within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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B.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, is a historic town best known as the site of the pivotal 1863 Civil War battle and Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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C.
City of Manassas Park, Virginia
The City of Manassas Park, Virginia is an independent, suburban city in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., known for its residential communities and proximity to major regional transportation corridors.
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Manassas National Battlefield Park
Manassas National Battlefield Park is a preserved Civil War battlefield in Virginia that commemorates the First and Second Battles of Bull Run through historic landscapes, monuments, and visitor exhibits.
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Antietam Creek, Maryland
Antietam Creek in Maryland is a historic waterway best known as the site of the Battle of Antietam, one of the bloodiest and most consequential engagements of the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Sharpsburg, Maryland Description of subject: Sharpsburg, Maryland is a small historic town in Washington County best known as the site of the Civil War Battle of Antietam.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Antietam Creek, Maryland
linked to: Sharpsburg, Maryland
subject linked to:
central soldiers’ monument