Appomattox County, Virginia
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Appomattox County, Virginia is a rural county in central Virginia best known as the site of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Appomattox County, Virginia canonical | 33 |
| Appomattox County | 2 |
| Appomattox County government | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T487036 — 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: Appomattox County, Virginia Context triple: [Appomattox Court House, Virginia, locatedIn, Appomattox County, Virginia]
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Pittsylvania County, Virginia
Pittsylvania County, Virginia is a largely rural county in south-central Virginia known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and location along major transportation routes between Lynchburg and Danville.
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Rockbridge County, Virginia
Rockbridge County, Virginia is a largely rural county in the Shenandoah Valley known for its historic towns like Lexington and institutions such as the Virginia Military Institute and Washington and Lee University.
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Madison County, Virginia
Madison County, Virginia is a rural county in the central part of the state, known for its scenic Blue Ridge Mountain landscapes, agriculture, and small-town communities.
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Nelson County, Virginia
Nelson County, Virginia is a largely rural county in central Virginia known for its scenic Blue Ridge Mountain landscapes, outdoor recreation, and local wineries and breweries.
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E.
Amherst County, Virginia
Amherst County, Virginia is a largely rural county in central Virginia known for its scenic Blue Ridge Mountain landscapes, historic towns, and location north of Lynchburg.
- 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: Appomattox County, Virginia Target entity description: Appomattox County, Virginia is a rural county in central Virginia best known as the site of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
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A.
Pittsylvania County, Virginia
Pittsylvania County, Virginia is a largely rural county in south-central Virginia known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and location along major transportation routes between Lynchburg and Danville.
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B.
Rockbridge County, Virginia
Rockbridge County, Virginia is a largely rural county in the Shenandoah Valley known for its historic towns like Lexington and institutions such as the Virginia Military Institute and Washington and Lee University.
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C.
Madison County, Virginia
Madison County, Virginia is a rural county in the central part of the state, known for its scenic Blue Ridge Mountain landscapes, agriculture, and small-town communities.
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D.
Nelson County, Virginia
Nelson County, Virginia is a largely rural county in central Virginia known for its scenic Blue Ridge Mountain landscapes, outdoor recreation, and local wineries and breweries.
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E.
Amherst County, Virginia
Amherst County, Virginia is a largely rural county in central Virginia known for its scenic Blue Ridge Mountain landscapes, historic towns, and location north of Lynchburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Appomattox County, Virginia Description of subject: Appomattox County, Virginia is a rural county in central Virginia best known as the site of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Appomattox County Board of Supervisors
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appliesToAdministrativeTerritory
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Appomattox County, Virginia
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linked to: Appomattox County, Virginia
linked to: Appomattox County, Virginia
subject linked to:
central Virginia
linked to: Appomattox County, Virginia