Great Retreat on the Western Front
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The Great Retreat on the Western Front was the large-scale withdrawal of Allied forces, primarily the British and French armies, in the early weeks of World War I as they fell back from advancing German troops through Belgium and northern France in 1914.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Retreat (British sector) | 1 |
| Great Retreat on the Western Front canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19686953 — 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: Great Retreat on the Western Front Context triple: [Great Retreat (1914), alsoKnownAs, Great Retreat on the Western Front]
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A.
II Corps on the Western Front
II Corps on the Western Front was a major British Army corps that fought in key First World War battles in France and Flanders as part of the British Expeditionary Force.
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B.
Ypres after the First Bombardment
"Ypres after the First Bombardment" is a World War I painting by British artist C.R.W. Nevinson that starkly depicts the devastation of the Belgian town of Ypres following heavy artillery attacks.
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C.
Battle for Hill 70
Battle for Hill 70 was a major First World War engagement in August 1917 near Lens, France, in which Canadian Corps forces successfully attacked and held a strategically important ridge against German counterattacks.
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D.
Ypres 1914
Ypres 1914 refers to the First World War battles around the Belgian town of Ypres in 1914, marked by intense fighting and heavy casualties during the early stages of the Western Front.
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E.
The Road from Arras to Bapaume
The Road from Arras to Bapaume is a 1917 World War I painting by British artist C.R.W. Nevinson that starkly depicts the devastation of the Western Front landscape.
- 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: Great Retreat on the Western Front Target entity description: The Great Retreat on the Western Front was the large-scale withdrawal of Allied forces, primarily the British and French armies, in the early weeks of World War I as they fell back from advancing German troops through Belgium and northern France in 1914.
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A.
II Corps on the Western Front
II Corps on the Western Front was a major British Army corps that fought in key First World War battles in France and Flanders as part of the British Expeditionary Force.
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B.
Ypres after the First Bombardment
"Ypres after the First Bombardment" is a World War I painting by British artist C.R.W. Nevinson that starkly depicts the devastation of the Belgian town of Ypres following heavy artillery attacks.
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C.
Battle for Hill 70
Battle for Hill 70 was a major First World War engagement in August 1917 near Lens, France, in which Canadian Corps forces successfully attacked and held a strategically important ridge against German counterattacks.
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D.
Ypres 1914
Ypres 1914 refers to the First World War battles around the Belgian town of Ypres in 1914, marked by intense fighting and heavy casualties during the early stages of the Western Front.
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E.
The Road from Arras to Bapaume
The Road from Arras to Bapaume is a 1917 World War I painting by British artist C.R.W. Nevinson that starkly depicts the devastation of the Western Front landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Great Retreat on the Western Front