First Battle of Lincoln
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The First Battle of Lincoln was a key engagement in the English civil war known as The Anarchy, where forces loyal to Empress Matilda captured King Stephen in 1141, dramatically shifting the balance of power.
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| First Battle of Lincoln canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14278410 — 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: First Battle of Lincoln Context triple: [Battle of Lincoln (1141), alsoKnownAs, First Battle of Lincoln]
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Battle of Lincoln
The Battle of Lincoln was a multi-day 1878 gunfight and siege in Lincoln, New Mexico, that became the climactic confrontation of the Lincoln County War and prominently involved figures like Billy the Kid.
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Second Battle of Lincoln
The Second Battle of Lincoln was a key 1217 clash during the First Barons' War in which royalist forces defeated rebels and their French allies, helping to secure the young King Henry III’s reign.
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Battle of Mansfield
The Battle of Mansfield was a major American Civil War engagement in April 1864 in Louisiana, where Confederate forces halted the Union Red River Campaign.
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Battle of Norfolk
The Battle of Norfolk was a major armored engagement of the 1991 Gulf War in which U.S.-led coalition forces decisively defeated Iraqi Republican Guard units near the Kuwait-Iraq border.
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Reynolds’ Battle
Reynolds’ Battle is an 1876 engagement of the Great Sioux War in which U.S. Army forces under Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds attacked a Northern Cheyenne and Oglala Lakota village along the Powder River in present-day Montana.
- F. None of above. chosen
- 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: First Battle of Lincoln Target entity description: The First Battle of Lincoln was a key engagement in the English civil war known as The Anarchy, where forces loyal to Empress Matilda captured King Stephen in 1141, dramatically shifting the balance of power.
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A.
Battle of Lincoln
The Battle of Lincoln was a multi-day 1878 gunfight and siege in Lincoln, New Mexico, that became the climactic confrontation of the Lincoln County War and prominently involved figures like Billy the Kid.
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B.
Second Battle of Lincoln
The Second Battle of Lincoln was a key 1217 clash during the First Barons' War in which royalist forces defeated rebels and their French allies, helping to secure the young King Henry III’s reign.
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C.
Battle of Mansfield
The Battle of Mansfield was a major American Civil War engagement in April 1864 in Louisiana, where Confederate forces halted the Union Red River Campaign.
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D.
Battle of Norfolk
The Battle of Norfolk was a major armored engagement of the 1991 Gulf War in which U.S.-led coalition forces decisively defeated Iraqi Republican Guard units near the Kuwait-Iraq border.
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E.
Reynolds’ Battle
Reynolds’ Battle is an 1876 engagement of the Great Sioux War in which U.S. Army forces under Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds attacked a Northern Cheyenne and Oglala Lakota village along the Powder River in present-day Montana.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.