Siege of Taillebourg (1242)
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The Siege of Taillebourg (1242) was a key episode in the Saintonge War in which French royal forces under Louis IX confronted and pressured the English-led coalition before the decisive Battle of Saintes.
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| Siege of Taillebourg (1242) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16957168 — 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: Siege of Taillebourg (1242) Context triple: [Battle of Saintes (1242), precededBy, Siege of Taillebourg (1242)]
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A.
Battle of Brienne-le-Château
The Battle of Brienne-le-Château was a Napoleonic engagement fought in January 1814 during the War of the Sixth Coalition, in which Napoleon attempted to halt the advancing Allied armies on French soil.
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B.
Siege of Bois-le-Duc
The Siege of Bois-le-Duc was a major 1629 Dutch siege during the Eighty Years' War in which the Protestant Dutch forces captured the strongly fortified, predominantly Catholic city of ’s-Hertogenbosch from Spanish control.
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C.
Siege of Château Gaillard
The Siege of Château Gaillard (1203–1204) was a pivotal medieval conflict in which Philip II of France captured King John of England’s formidable Norman fortress, leading to the French conquest of much of Normandy.
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D.
Siege of Aiguillon (1346)
The Siege of Aiguillon (1346) was a key Hundred Years' War engagement in which an English-held fortress in southwestern France successfully withstood a prolonged French siege, diverting French forces ahead of the Battle of Crécy.
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E.
Battle of Taillebourg
The Battle of Taillebourg was a decisive 1242 clash in southwestern France in which King Louis IX’s forces defeated those of Henry III of England, helping to secure Capetian control over much of France.
- 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: Siege of Taillebourg (1242) Target entity description: The Siege of Taillebourg (1242) was a key episode in the Saintonge War in which French royal forces under Louis IX confronted and pressured the English-led coalition before the decisive Battle of Saintes.
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A.
Battle of Brienne-le-Château
The Battle of Brienne-le-Château was a Napoleonic engagement fought in January 1814 during the War of the Sixth Coalition, in which Napoleon attempted to halt the advancing Allied armies on French soil.
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B.
Siege of Bois-le-Duc
The Siege of Bois-le-Duc was a major 1629 Dutch siege during the Eighty Years' War in which the Protestant Dutch forces captured the strongly fortified, predominantly Catholic city of ’s-Hertogenbosch from Spanish control.
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C.
Siege of Château Gaillard
The Siege of Château Gaillard (1203–1204) was a pivotal medieval conflict in which Philip II of France captured King John of England’s formidable Norman fortress, leading to the French conquest of much of Normandy.
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D.
Siege of Aiguillon (1346)
The Siege of Aiguillon (1346) was a key Hundred Years' War engagement in which an English-held fortress in southwestern France successfully withstood a prolonged French siege, diverting French forces ahead of the Battle of Crécy.
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E.
Battle of Taillebourg
The Battle of Taillebourg was a decisive 1242 clash in southwestern France in which King Louis IX’s forces defeated those of Henry III of England, helping to secure Capetian control over much of France.
- F. None of above. chosen
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