Horsemonger Lane Gaol
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Horsemonger Lane Gaol was a former 18th–19th century prison in Southwark, London, known for housing debtors and criminals and for being the site of public executions.
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| Horsemonger Lane Gaol canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16239219 — 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: Horsemonger Lane Gaol Context triple: [Surrey County Gaol, locatedNear, Horsemonger Lane Gaol]
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Surrey County Gaol
Surrey County Gaol was a historic English prison in Surrey notable for housing political and literary prisoners such as essayist and poet Leigh Hunt.
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Reading County Gaol
Reading County Gaol was a historic prison in Reading, Berkshire, England, best known for housing Oscar Wilde and inspiring his poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol."
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C.
Tolhouse Gaol
Tolhouse Gaol is a historic former prison and courthouse in Great Yarmouth, England, now preserved as a museum showcasing local crime and punishment history.
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Old Arsenal Penitentiary
Old Arsenal Penitentiary was a 19th-century U.S. military prison in Washington, D.C., best known as the site where several conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were imprisoned and executed.
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E.
Dorchester Gaol
Dorchester Gaol was a historic English prison in Dorchester, Dorset, known for holding political and religious dissenters among its inmates.
- 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: Horsemonger Lane Gaol Target entity description: Horsemonger Lane Gaol was a former 18th–19th century prison in Southwark, London, known for housing debtors and criminals and for being the site of public executions.
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A.
Surrey County Gaol
Surrey County Gaol was a historic English prison in Surrey notable for housing political and literary prisoners such as essayist and poet Leigh Hunt.
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B.
Reading County Gaol
Reading County Gaol was a historic prison in Reading, Berkshire, England, best known for housing Oscar Wilde and inspiring his poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol."
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C.
Tolhouse Gaol
Tolhouse Gaol is a historic former prison and courthouse in Great Yarmouth, England, now preserved as a museum showcasing local crime and punishment history.
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D.
Old Arsenal Penitentiary
Old Arsenal Penitentiary was a 19th-century U.S. military prison in Washington, D.C., best known as the site where several conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were imprisoned and executed.
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E.
Dorchester Gaol
Dorchester Gaol was a historic English prison in Dorchester, Dorset, known for holding political and religious dissenters among its inmates.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.