Action off Cape Spartel
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Action off Cape Spartel is a 1782 naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War in which a British fleet under Admiral Howe fought a largely indecisive battle against a combined Franco-Spanish fleet off the coast of Morocco.
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| Action off Cape Spartel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14754507 — 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)
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Target entity: Action off Cape Spartel Context triple: [Battle of Cape Spartel, alsoKnownAs, Action off Cape Spartel]
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Action off Cape Spada
Action off Cape Spada was a World War II naval engagement in July 1940 in which Allied destroyers and the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney intercepted and defeated Italian cruisers near Crete.
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Cape Spartel
Cape Spartel is a prominent headland on the Atlantic coast of northern Morocco, marking the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar near Tangier.
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Tacking Point
Tacking Point is a coastal headland near Port Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, known for its scenic ocean views and as the site of the historic Tacking Point Lighthouse.
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D.
Cape Ortegal
Cape Ortegal is a prominent headland on the northwestern coast of Spain in Galicia, known for its rugged cliffs and strategic position facing the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of Biscay.
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Cape Horn rounding
Cape Horn rounding is a dramatic nautical event in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin novels, depicting the perilous passage of ships around the storm-torn southern tip of South America.
- 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: Action off Cape Spartel Target entity description: Action off Cape Spartel is a 1782 naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War in which a British fleet under Admiral Howe fought a largely indecisive battle against a combined Franco-Spanish fleet off the coast of Morocco.
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A.
Action off Cape Spada
Action off Cape Spada was a World War II naval engagement in July 1940 in which Allied destroyers and the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney intercepted and defeated Italian cruisers near Crete.
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B.
Cape Spartel
Cape Spartel is a prominent headland on the Atlantic coast of northern Morocco, marking the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar near Tangier.
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C.
Tacking Point
Tacking Point is a coastal headland near Port Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, known for its scenic ocean views and as the site of the historic Tacking Point Lighthouse.
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D.
Cape Ortegal
Cape Ortegal is a prominent headland on the northwestern coast of Spain in Galicia, known for its rugged cliffs and strategic position facing the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of Biscay.
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E.
Cape Horn rounding
Cape Horn rounding is a dramatic nautical event in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin novels, depicting the perilous passage of ships around the storm-torn southern tip of South America.
- F. None of above. chosen
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