West Florida
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West Florida was a short-lived British colonial province along the Gulf Coast, carved from former Spanish territory after the Seven Years’ War and later divided between the United States and Spain.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| West Florida canonical | 21 |
| Spanish West Florida | 10 |
| British West Florida | 7 |
| British West Florida (in some areas) | 1 |
| Florida (Spanish colony) | 1 |
| Governor and Council of West Florida | 1 |
| La Florida | 1 |
| Spanish West Florida (to the south) | 1 |
| West Florida region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T466648 — 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: West Florida Context triple: [Royal Proclamation of 1763, appliesToTerritory, West Florida]
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East Florida
East Florida was a British colony established in 1763 on the southeastern North American mainland, encompassing much of what is now the state of Florida.
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Florida Panhandle
The Florida Panhandle is the northwestern strip of Florida bordering Alabama and Georgia, known for its Gulf Coast beaches, military bases, and mix of Southern and coastal cultures.
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South Florida
South Florida is the southernmost region of the U.S. state of Florida, encompassing major metropolitan areas such as Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach and known for its subtropical climate, diverse culture, and coastal tourism.
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Northeast Florida
Northeast Florida is a region of the U.S. state of Florida that encompasses Jacksonville and its surrounding coastal and inland communities in the state's northeastern corner.
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Florida Peninsula
The Florida Peninsula is the southeastern U.S. landmass extending between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, known for its flat terrain, subtropical to tropical climate, and extensive coastline.
- 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: West Florida Target entity description: West Florida was a short-lived British colonial province along the Gulf Coast, carved from former Spanish territory after the Seven Years’ War and later divided between the United States and Spain.
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A.
East Florida
East Florida was a British colony established in 1763 on the southeastern North American mainland, encompassing much of what is now the state of Florida.
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B.
Florida Panhandle
The Florida Panhandle is the northwestern strip of Florida bordering Alabama and Georgia, known for its Gulf Coast beaches, military bases, and mix of Southern and coastal cultures.
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South Florida
South Florida is the southernmost region of the U.S. state of Florida, encompassing major metropolitan areas such as Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach and known for its subtropical climate, diverse culture, and coastal tourism.
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Northeast Florida
Northeast Florida is a region of the U.S. state of Florida that encompasses Jacksonville and its surrounding coastal and inland communities in the state's northeastern corner.
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Florida Peninsula
The Florida Peninsula is the southeastern U.S. landmass extending between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, known for its flat terrain, subtropical to tropical climate, and extensive coastline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: West Florida Description of subject: West Florida was a short-lived British colonial province along the Gulf Coast, carved from former Spanish territory after the Seven Years’ War and later divided between the United States and Spain.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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