Atlantic Revolutions

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historical phenomenon political movement revolutionary wave

The Atlantic Revolutions were a series of late-18th- and early-19th-century uprisings across the Americas and Europe that challenged monarchical rule and advanced ideas of liberty, equality, and popular sovereignty.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Atlantic revolutions	4
Atlantic Revolutions canonical	2
Age of Atlantic Revolutions	1
American Revolution within broader Atlantic world	1
The Age of Revolution	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T41985 — 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: Atlantic Revolutions
Context triple: [American Revolutionary War, partOf, Atlantic Revolutions]

A. French Revolution
The French Revolution was a late-18th-century upheaval in France that overthrew the monarchy, radically restructured society, and profoundly influenced modern politics, law, and concepts of citizenship and human rights.
B. The Age of Revolution
The Age of Revolution is a historical volume by Winston Churchill that chronicles the political and social upheavals from the late 17th to early 19th centuries in the English-speaking world.
C. Latin American independence movements
Latin American independence movements were a series of early 19th-century revolutionary struggles across Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas that sought to overthrow European rule and establish sovereign nation-states.
D. French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts from 1792 to 1802 in which Revolutionary France fought various European monarchies, reshaping the political landscape of Europe and paving the way for the Napoleonic era.
E. American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War was an 18th-century conflict in which the thirteen American colonies fought for and won independence from Great Britain, leading to the founding of the United States.
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: Atlantic Revolutions
Target entity description: The Atlantic Revolutions were a series of late-18th- and early-19th-century uprisings across the Americas and Europe that challenged monarchical rule and advanced ideas of liberty, equality, and popular sovereignty.

A. French Revolution
The French Revolution was a late-18th-century upheaval in France that overthrew the monarchy, radically restructured society, and profoundly influenced modern politics, law, and concepts of citizenship and human rights.
B. The Age of Revolution
The Age of Revolution is a historical volume by Winston Churchill that chronicles the political and social upheavals from the late 17th to early 19th centuries in the English-speaking world.
C. Latin American independence movements
Latin American independence movements were a series of early 19th-century revolutionary struggles across Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas that sought to overthrow European rule and establish sovereign nation-states.
D. French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts from 1792 to 1802 in which Revolutionary France fought various European monarchies, reshaping the political landscape of Europe and paving the way for the Napoleonic era.
E. American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War was an 18th-century conflict in which the thirteen American colonies fought for and won independence from Great Britain, leading to the founding of the United States.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical phenomenon ⓘ political movement ⓘ revolutionary wave ⓘ
challenges	hereditary privilege ⓘ monarchical rule ⓘ
hasAltLabel	Age of Atlantic Revolutions ⓘ linked to: Atlantic Revolutions
hasApproximateEndDate	circa 1830 ⓘ
hasApproximateStartDate	1775 ⓘ
hasConsequence	emergence of nation-states in the Americas ⓘ inspiration for later democratic movements ⓘ reconfiguration of imperial systems ⓘ
hasGeographicScope	Americas ⓘ Atlantic world ⓘ Europe ⓘ
hasKeyIdea	constitutionalism ⓘ equality ⓘ human rights ⓘ liberty ⓘ popular sovereignty ⓘ republicanism ⓘ
hasLanguageContext	English ⓘ
hasTheme	anti-colonialism ⓘ citizenship ⓘ rights of man ⓘ slavery and emancipation debates ⓘ
hasTimePeriod	early 19th century ⓘ late 18th century ⓘ
includesEvent	American Revolution ⓘ linked to: American Revolutionary War Batavian Revolution ⓘ linked to: Batavian Republic French Revolution ⓘ Haitian Revolution ⓘ Irish Rebellion of 1798 ⓘ Latin American wars of independence ⓘ Portuguese American (Brazilian) independence movement ⓘ Spanish American wars of independence ⓘ linked to: Latin American independence movements
influencedBy	Enlightenment ⓘ linked to: Age of Enlightenment liberalism ⓘ social contract theory ⓘ
relatedTo	Age of Revolution ⓘ linked to: The Age of Revolution Enlightenment political thought ⓘ
resultsIn	codification of rights in written constitutions ⓘ decline of absolute monarchy in the Atlantic world ⓘ expansion of political participation for some social groups ⓘ independence of many American colonies ⓘ spread of republican governments ⓘ
startsWith	American Revolution ⓘ linked to: American Revolutionary War
studiedInDiscipline	history ⓘ political science ⓘ

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