Capture of Saigon
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The Capture of Saigon was an 1859 French naval and land assault that seized the city from the Nguyễn dynasty, marking a key step in the establishment of French colonial rule in southern Vietnam.
All labels observed (1)
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| Capture of Saigon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22152472 — 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: Capture of Saigon Context triple: [Charles Rigault de Genouilly, militaryOperation, Capture of Saigon]
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Hue–Da Nang Campaign
The Hue–Da Nang Campaign was a major 1975 North Vietnamese offensive that captured the key central Vietnamese cities of Huế and Da Nang, hastening the collapse of South Vietnam in the final phase of the Vietnam War.
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B.
Pleiku Campaign
The Pleiku Campaign was a major 1965 U.S. and South Vietnamese military operation in the Vietnam War’s Central Highlands, marking the first large-scale conventional clashes between American and North Vietnamese forces.
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C.
Battle of Hue
The Battle of Hue was a major and brutal urban engagement during the 1968 Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War, in which U.S. and South Vietnamese forces fought North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops for control of the historic city of Huế.
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D.
Battle of Pleiku
The Battle of Pleiku was a 1965 Viet Cong attack on a U.S. base in Vietnam’s Central Highlands that prompted major American escalation and the sustained bombing campaign known as Operation Rolling Thunder.
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E.
Nguyen Hue Offensive
The Nguyen Hue Offensive, better known as the Easter Offensive, was a major 1972 North Vietnamese conventional military campaign against South Vietnam during the Vietnam 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: Capture of Saigon Target entity description: The Capture of Saigon was an 1859 French naval and land assault that seized the city from the Nguyễn dynasty, marking a key step in the establishment of French colonial rule in southern Vietnam.
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A.
Hue–Da Nang Campaign
The Hue–Da Nang Campaign was a major 1975 North Vietnamese offensive that captured the key central Vietnamese cities of Huế and Da Nang, hastening the collapse of South Vietnam in the final phase of the Vietnam War.
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B.
Pleiku Campaign
The Pleiku Campaign was a major 1965 U.S. and South Vietnamese military operation in the Vietnam War’s Central Highlands, marking the first large-scale conventional clashes between American and North Vietnamese forces.
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C.
Battle of Hue
The Battle of Hue was a major and brutal urban engagement during the 1968 Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War, in which U.S. and South Vietnamese forces fought North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops for control of the historic city of Huế.
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D.
Battle of Pleiku
The Battle of Pleiku was a 1965 Viet Cong attack on a U.S. base in Vietnam’s Central Highlands that prompted major American escalation and the sustained bombing campaign known as Operation Rolling Thunder.
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E.
Nguyen Hue Offensive
The Nguyen Hue Offensive, better known as the Easter Offensive, was a major 1972 North Vietnamese conventional military campaign against South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.