Fort Geldria
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Fort Geldria was a Dutch East India Company stronghold on the Coromandel Coast of India that served as a key trading and administrative center during the colonial period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fort Geldria canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4121798 — 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 Geldria Context triple: [Dutch Coromandel, hadFort, Fort Geldria]
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A.
Fort Goede Hoop
Fort Goede Hoop was a key Dutch colonial trading fort on the Gold Coast in present-day Ghana, historically used for commerce and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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B.
Fort Willem Hendrick
Fort Willem Hendrick was a 17th-century Dutch colonial fortification in what is now Lower Manhattan, serving as a key military and administrative center of New Netherland.
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C.
Fort Tompkins
Fort Tompkins is a historic coastal defense fortification on Staten Island, New York, that formed part of the harbor defenses of New York City.
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D.
Fort Batenstein
Fort Batenstein is a historic European-built coastal fort in Ghana that formed part of the former Gold Coast’s network of trading and defensive outposts.
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E.
Fort Kobbe
Fort Kobbe was a former United States Army installation in the Panama Canal Zone that played a key role in the defense and administration of the canal area during much of the 20th century.
- 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 Geldria Target entity description: Fort Geldria was a Dutch East India Company stronghold on the Coromandel Coast of India that served as a key trading and administrative center during the colonial period.
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A.
Fort Goede Hoop
Fort Goede Hoop was a key Dutch colonial trading fort on the Gold Coast in present-day Ghana, historically used for commerce and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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B.
Fort Willem Hendrick
Fort Willem Hendrick was a 17th-century Dutch colonial fortification in what is now Lower Manhattan, serving as a key military and administrative center of New Netherland.
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C.
Fort Tompkins
Fort Tompkins is a historic coastal defense fortification on Staten Island, New York, that formed part of the harbor defenses of New York City.
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D.
Fort Batenstein
Fort Batenstein is a historic European-built coastal fort in Ghana that formed part of the former Gold Coast’s network of trading and defensive outposts.
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E.
Fort Kobbe
Fort Kobbe was a former United States Army installation in the Panama Canal Zone that played a key role in the defense and administration of the canal area during much of the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial stronghold
ⓘ
fort ⓘ trading post ⓘ |
| conflictContext |
Anglo-Dutch rivalry in India
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European colonial competition in the Indian Ocean ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| establishedBy |
Dutch East India Company
ⓘ
VOC ⓘ |
| function |
administrative center
ⓘ
military fortification ⓘ trading center ⓘ |
| hasPart |
arsenal
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bastions ⓘ church ⓘ offices ⓘ ramparts ⓘ residential quarters ⓘ warehouses ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historical site ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Dutch colonial period in India ⓘ |
| inception | 1610s ⓘ |
| languageOfAdministration | Dutch ⓘ |
| languageOfTrade |
Portuguese
ⓘ
Tamil ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
India
ⓘ
Pulicat ⓘ Tamil Nadu ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Coromandel Coast ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Gelderland ⓘ |
| nearby |
Pulicat Lake
ⓘ
linked to:
Pulicat
|
| operator | Dutch East India Company ⓘ |
| partOf |
Dutch Coromandel
ⓘ
Dutch India ⓘ
linked to:
Dutch colonial empire
|
| politicalRole |
residence of the Dutch governor of Coromandel
ⓘ
seat of Dutch administration on the Coromandel Coast ⓘ |
| presentCondition | ruins ⓘ |
| significance |
key node in Dutch Indian Ocean trade network
ⓘ
main VOC headquarters on the Coromandel Coast ⓘ |
| startTime | early 17th century ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Dutch merchants
ⓘ
Dutch soldiers ⓘ VOC officials ⓘ |
| usedFor |
export of Indian textiles
ⓘ
import of European goods ⓘ spice trade ⓘ textile trade ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Fort Geldria Description of subject: Fort Geldria was a Dutch East India Company stronghold on the Coromandel Coast of India that served as a key trading and administrative center during the colonial period.
Referenced by (1)
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