Is it possible to enter free-form input programmatically, i.e. not manually?

I have a list of data including say "Battle of the Milvian Bridge". I want to convert this to an entity but I don't know what the exact entity description is. In fact, it is "BattleOfTheMilvianBridge", so in this case it's just a case of stripping out spaces, but in general, the Wolfram name might be somewhat different from my name, not just a case of omitting spaces. If I use ctrl-equals and manually type in the name, Mathematica finds the best match in its knowledge base. How can I apply ctrl-equals automatically to my list of data so that I don't have to type in each element one by one to get the correct Mathematica representation? I want something like