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CSS Ellis (later USS Ellis) was a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy and the United States Navy during the American Civil War. It was lost during a raid while under command of famed Navy officer Lieutenant William B. Cushing.
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The extracted context around CSS Ellis shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, CSS Ellis → Captured by U.S. Navy 10 February 1862;, Destroyed to prevent recapture 25 November 1862 Another extracted example is CSS Ellis → 1 32-pounder rifled cannon, 1 12-pounder howitzer. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 14 structured relationships around CSS Ellis. Examples in this analysis include CSS Ellis → Armament → 1 32-pounder rifled cannon, 1 12-pounder howitzer and CSS Ellis → Builder → Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Delaware. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSS Ellis | Armament | 1 32-pounder rifled cannon, 1 12-pounder howitzer | 1.00 | infobox |
| CSS Ellis | Builder | Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Delaware | 1.00 | infobox |
| CSS Ellis | Commissioned | 1861 | 1.00 | infobox |
| CSS Ellis | Complement | 28 officers and men | 1.00 | infobox |
| CSS Ellis | Decommissioned | 1862 | 1.00 | infobox |
| CSS Ellis | Displacement | 100 tons | 1.00 | infobox |
| CSS Ellis | Draft | 6 ft (1.8 m) | 1.00 | infobox |
| CSS Ellis | Fate | Captured by U.S. Navy 10 February 1862; | 1.00 | infobox |
| CSS Ellis | Fate | Destroyed to prevent recapture 25 November 1862 | 1.00 | infobox |
| CSS Ellis | Home port | Norfolk, Virginia | 1.00 | infobox |
| CSS Ellis | Installed power | steam | 1.00 | infobox |
| CSS Ellis | Launched | 1860 | 1.00 | infobox |
| CSS Ellis | Name | Ellis | 1.00 | infobox |
| CSS Ellis | Propulsion | propeller | 1.00 | infobox |
The concept neighborhoods around CSS Ellis bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include November, Gunboat and Navy. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For CSS Ellis, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects CSS Ellis with Confederate Service. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around CSS Ellis to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Measurement, Confederate Service & U.S. Navy Service, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — CSS Ellis · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout