Fort Macon
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Fort Macon is a 19th-century coastal defense fortification in North Carolina, built as part of the United States’ Third System of seacoast defenses and now preserved as a state park and historic site.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fort Macon State Park | 2 |
| Fort Macon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2617997 — 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 Macon Context triple: [Third System of US seacoast defense, hasPart, Fort Macon]
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Fort Beaufort
Fort Beaufort is a historic town in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, known for its role as a British military outpost during the 19th-century frontier wars.
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B.
Fort Hancock
Fort Hancock is a historic former U.S. Army coastal defense installation located on Sandy Hook in New Jersey, now preserved as part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
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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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D.
Fort Anderson
Fort Anderson is a historic Civil War–era Confederate fortification and archaeological site located along the Cape Fear River in North Carolina.
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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.
- 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 Macon Target entity description: Fort Macon is a 19th-century coastal defense fortification in North Carolina, built as part of the United States’ Third System of seacoast defenses and now preserved as a state park and historic site.
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A.
Fort Beaufort
Fort Beaufort is a historic town in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, known for its role as a British military outpost during the 19th-century frontier wars.
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B.
Fort Hancock
Fort Hancock is a historic former U.S. Army coastal defense installation located on Sandy Hook in New Jersey, now preserved as part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
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C.
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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D.
Fort Anderson
Fort Anderson is a historic Civil War–era Confederate fortification and archaeological site located along the Cape Fear River in North Carolina.
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E.
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.
- 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 Macon Description of subject: Fort Macon is a 19th-century coastal defense fortification in North Carolina, built as part of the United States’ Third System of seacoast defenses and now preserved as a state park and historic site.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Fort Macon
linked to: Fort Macon