Fort St. Jean Baptiste
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Fort St. Jean Baptiste was an early 18th-century French colonial military and trading post established near present-day Natchitoches, Louisiana, to secure France’s southwestern frontier in North America.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fort St. Jean Baptiste canonical | 1 |
| Fort St. Jean Baptiste (Louisiana) | 1 |
| Fort St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18097162 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fort St. Jean Baptiste Context triple: [French colonial Louisiana, hasFort, Fort St. Jean Baptiste]
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Fort Rouillé
Fort Rouillé was an 18th-century French trading post and military fortification located in what is now Toronto, Canada, built to support the fur trade and assert French presence in the region.
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Fort Plaisance
Fort Plaisance was a French colonial fortification built to protect the fishing settlement at Placentia in what is now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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Fort Louis de la Louisiane
Fort Louis de la Louisiane was an early 18th-century French colonial fort and settlement that served as one of the first capitals and military outposts of French Louisiana near present-day Mobile, Alabama.
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D.
Fort Maurepas
Fort Maurepas was a French colonial fort and early settlement site on the Gulf Coast that served as the first capital of French Louisiana in the early 18th century.
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Fort St. Philip
Fort St. Philip is a historic coastal fortification in Louisiana that played a key defensive role in multiple American conflicts, including the War of 1812 and the 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: Fort St. Jean Baptiste Target entity description: Fort St. Jean Baptiste was an early 18th-century French colonial military and trading post established near present-day Natchitoches, Louisiana, to secure France’s southwestern frontier in North America.
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A.
Fort Rouillé
Fort Rouillé was an 18th-century French trading post and military fortification located in what is now Toronto, Canada, built to support the fur trade and assert French presence in the region.
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B.
Fort Plaisance
Fort Plaisance was a French colonial fortification built to protect the fishing settlement at Placentia in what is now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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C.
Fort Louis de la Louisiane
Fort Louis de la Louisiane was an early 18th-century French colonial fort and settlement that served as one of the first capitals and military outposts of French Louisiana near present-day Mobile, Alabama.
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D.
Fort Maurepas
Fort Maurepas was a French colonial fort and early settlement site on the Gulf Coast that served as the first capital of French Louisiana in the early 18th century.
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E.
Fort St. Philip
Fort St. Philip is a historic coastal fortification in Louisiana that played a key defensive role in multiple American conflicts, including the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site
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Fort St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches
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