Marengo, Piedmont
E101575
Marengo, Piedmont is a locality in northwestern Italy historically renowned as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisive victory over Austrian forces in 1800.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marengo, Italy | 1 |
| Marengo, Piedmont canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T808080 — 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: Marengo, Piedmont Context triple: [Battle of Marengo, location, Marengo, Piedmont]
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A.
Selasca
Selasca is a small locality in northern Italy notable as the place where the mathematician Bernhard Riemann died.
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B.
Montegrande
Montegrande is a small rural village in Chile’s Elqui Valley, known for its scenic Andean landscapes and traditional agricultural surroundings.
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C.
Lombardy–Venetia
Lombardy–Venetia was a 19th-century crown land of the Austrian Empire in northern Italy, encompassing the regions of Lombardy and Venetia until their unification with the Kingdom of Italy.
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D.
Campania
Campania is a region in southern Italy known for its rich ancient history, including Greek and Roman sites like Pompeii and Herculaneum, and for its scenic coastline along the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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E.
South Picene
South Picene is an extinct ancient Italic language once spoken in central Italy and known primarily from a small corpus of archaic inscriptions.
- 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: Marengo, Piedmont Target entity description: Marengo, Piedmont is a locality in northwestern Italy historically renowned as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisive victory over Austrian forces in 1800.
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A.
Selasca
Selasca is a small locality in northern Italy notable as the place where the mathematician Bernhard Riemann died.
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B.
Montegrande
Montegrande is a small rural village in Chile’s Elqui Valley, known for its scenic Andean landscapes and traditional agricultural surroundings.
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C.
Lombardy–Venetia
Lombardy–Venetia was a 19th-century crown land of the Austrian Empire in northern Italy, encompassing the regions of Lombardy and Venetia until their unification with the Kingdom of Italy.
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D.
Campania
Campania is a region in southern Italy known for its rich ancient history, including Greek and Roman sites like Pompeii and Herculaneum, and for its scenic coastline along the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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E.
South Picene
South Picene is an extinct ancient Italic language once spoken in central Italy and known primarily from a small corpus of archaic inscriptions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic battlefield
ⓘ
locality ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Austrian Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
French Revolutionary Wars ⓘ Napoleon Bonaparte ⓘ |
| battleDate | 14 June 1800 ⓘ |
| battleResult | French victory ⓘ |
| category |
Historic sites in Piedmont
ⓘ
Napoleonic Wars battle sites in Italy ⓘ |
| commandersInvolved |
Michael von Melas
ⓘ
Napoleon Bonaparte ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | Napoleonic battlefield ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisive victory over Austrian forces ⓘ |
| influenced | consolidation of Napoleon’s power in France ⓘ |
| language | Italian ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Piedmont
ⓘ
northwestern Italy ⓘ |
| militaryCampaign | War of the Second Coalition ⓘ |
| namedAfterEvent | Chicken Marengo ⓘ |
| near | Alessandria ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Battle of Marengo ⓘ |
| notableFor | Battle of Marengo ⓘ |
| partOf | Province of Alessandria ⓘ |
| region | Piedmont ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| tourismType | battlefield tourism ⓘ |
| usedFor | commemoration of the Battle of Marengo ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Marengo, Piedmont Description of subject: Marengo, Piedmont is a locality in northwestern Italy historically renowned as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisive victory over Austrian forces in 1800.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Marengo, Piedmont