Fort McHenry
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Fort McHenry is a historic coastal fort in Baltimore, Maryland, best known for its successful defense during the War of 1812 that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem that became the U.S. national anthem.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fort McHenry canonical | 22 |
| Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine | 4 |
| Battle of Baltimore defensive position | 1 |
| Defence of Fort M’Henry | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17349 — 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: Fort McHenry Context triple: [The Star-Spangled Banner, associatedLocation, Fort McHenry]
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A.
Pentagon
The Pentagon is the five-sided headquarters of the United States Department of Defense and a symbol of the U.S. military.
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B.
High Rock Tower
High Rock Tower is a historic stone observation tower and former lighthouse in Lynn, Massachusetts, known for its panoramic coastal views and public park setting.
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C.
Independence Hall
Independence Hall is a historic building in Philadelphia best known as the site where both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and adopted.
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D.
United States Capitol
The United States Capitol is the iconic neoclassical building in Washington, D.C., that houses the U.S. Congress and serves as a central symbol of American democracy.
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E.
Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial is a monumental neoclassical temple in Washington, D.C., honoring the 16th U.S. president, Abraham Lincoln, and serving as a symbolic site for American civil rights and national unity.
- 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 McHenry Target entity description: Fort McHenry is a historic coastal fort in Baltimore, Maryland, best known for its successful defense during the War of 1812 that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem that became the U.S. national anthem.
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A.
Pentagon
The Pentagon is the five-sided headquarters of the United States Department of Defense and a symbol of the U.S. military.
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B.
High Rock Tower
High Rock Tower is a historic stone observation tower and former lighthouse in Lynn, Massachusetts, known for its panoramic coastal views and public park setting.
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C.
Independence Hall
Independence Hall is a historic building in Philadelphia best known as the site where both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and adopted.
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D.
United States Capitol
The United States Capitol is the iconic neoclassical building in Washington, D.C., that houses the U.S. Congress and serves as a central symbol of American democracy.
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E.
Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial is a monumental neoclassical temple in Washington, D.C., honoring the 16th U.S. president, Abraham Lincoln, and serving as a symbolic site for American civil rights and national unity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Fort McHenry Description of subject: Fort McHenry is a historic coastal fort in Baltimore, Maryland, best known for its successful defense during the War of 1812 that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem that became the U.S. national anthem.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Pickersgill
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subject linked to:
Pickersgill family
subject linked to:
Pickersgill family
War of 1812 national commemorative sites
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Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
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