Fort Ann, New York
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Fort Ann, New York is a small historic town and village in eastern New York State, near the Vermont border, known for its role in the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fort Ann, New York canonical | 3 |
| Fort Ann (village), New York | 2 |
| Fort Ann (historic fort) | 1 |
| Fort Anne, New York | 1 |
| West Fort Ann, New York | 1 |
| town of Fort Ann, New York | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2665181 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fort Ann, New York Context triple: [Washington County, New York, contains, Fort Ann, New York]
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Fort Montgomery, New York
Fort Montgomery, New York is a small hamlet in Orange County best known for its strategic Revolutionary War fortifications overlooking the Hudson River near Bear Mountain.
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Ticonderoga, New York
Ticonderoga, New York is a historic town in northeastern New York State best known for its strategic location between Lake George and Lake Champlain and the nearby Fort Ticonderoga.
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Fort Edward, New York
Fort Edward, New York is a small historic village in northeastern New York State known for its role in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
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Fort Wadsworth
Fort Wadsworth is a historic former military installation and coastal defense fortification located at the Narrows in New York Harbor, now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area.
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Fort Orange
Fort Orange was a 17th-century Dutch fur-trading post and military fortification located near present-day Albany, New York, that served as a key outpost of the colony of New Netherland.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fort Ann, New York Target entity description: Fort Ann, New York is a small historic town and village in eastern New York State, near the Vermont border, known for its role in the American Revolutionary War.
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Fort Montgomery, New York
Fort Montgomery, New York is a small hamlet in Orange County best known for its strategic Revolutionary War fortifications overlooking the Hudson River near Bear Mountain.
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Ticonderoga, New York
Ticonderoga, New York is a historic town in northeastern New York State best known for its strategic location between Lake George and Lake Champlain and the nearby Fort Ticonderoga.
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Fort Edward, New York
Fort Edward, New York is a small historic village in northeastern New York State known for its role in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
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Fort Wadsworth
Fort Wadsworth is a historic former military installation and coastal defense fortification located at the Narrows in New York Harbor, now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area.
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Fort Orange
Fort Orange was a 17th-century Dutch fur-trading post and military fortification located near present-day Albany, New York, that served as a key outpost of the colony of New Netherland.
- F. None of above. chosen
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Fort Ann, New York Description of subject: Fort Ann, New York is a small historic town and village in eastern New York State, near the Vermont border, known for its role in the American Revolutionary War.
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