Fort St. Philip
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Fort St. Philip was a strategically vital British-held fortress on the island of Menorca that played a central role in Mediterranean naval conflicts, including the Battle of Minorca in 1756.
All labels observed (1)
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| Fort St. Philip canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2585184 — 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 St. Philip Context triple: [Battle of Minorca (1756), relatedPlace, Fort St. Philip]
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Fort Pickens
Fort Pickens is a historic 19th-century coastal defense fort on the western end of Santa Rosa Island that played a key role in the defense of Pensacola Bay and remained in Union hands throughout the American Civil War.
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Fort Saint-Nicolas
Fort Saint-Nicolas is a historic 17th-century military fortress in Marseille, France, built to protect the city and its harbor and now recognized as a significant cultural monument.
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Old Fort Jackson
Old Fort Jackson is a historic coastal fortification near Savannah, Georgia, that served as a key defensive stronghold from the early 19th century through the Civil War and is now preserved as a museum.
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D.
Fort Jefferson
Fort Jefferson is a massive 19th-century coastal fortress located on Garden Key in the remote Dry Tortugas of Florida, known as one of the largest brick masonry structures in the Western Hemisphere.
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Fort Barrancas
Fort Barrancas is a historic coastal defense fortification located within Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, notable for its role in U.S. military history and 19th-century masonry architecture.
- 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. Philip Target entity description: Fort St. Philip was a strategically vital British-held fortress on the island of Menorca that played a central role in Mediterranean naval conflicts, including the Battle of Minorca in 1756.
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A.
Fort Pickens
Fort Pickens is a historic 19th-century coastal defense fort on the western end of Santa Rosa Island that played a key role in the defense of Pensacola Bay and remained in Union hands throughout the American Civil War.
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B.
Fort Saint-Nicolas
Fort Saint-Nicolas is a historic 17th-century military fortress in Marseille, France, built to protect the city and its harbor and now recognized as a significant cultural monument.
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C.
Old Fort Jackson
Old Fort Jackson is a historic coastal fortification near Savannah, Georgia, that served as a key defensive stronghold from the early 19th century through the Civil War and is now preserved as a museum.
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D.
Fort Jefferson
Fort Jefferson is a massive 19th-century coastal fortress located on Garden Key in the remote Dry Tortugas of Florida, known as one of the largest brick masonry structures in the Western Hemisphere.
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E.
Fort Barrancas
Fort Barrancas is a historic coastal defense fortification located within Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, notable for its role in U.S. military history and 19th-century masonry architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
How these facts were elicited
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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 St. Philip Description of subject: Fort St. Philip was a strategically vital British-held fortress on the island of Menorca that played a central role in Mediterranean naval conflicts, including the Battle of Minorca in 1756.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.