Siege of Montevideo
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The Siege of Montevideo was a prolonged 19th-century military blockade and series of engagements around Uruguay’s capital, central to the struggle between rival political factions during the Uruguayan Civil War.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Great Siege of Montevideo | 2 |
| Siege of Montevideo canonical | 1 |
| siege of Montevideo (1812–1814) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19207246 — 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: Siege of Montevideo Context triple: [Uruguayan Civil War, hasBattle, Siege of Montevideo]
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Siege of Montevideo (1807)
The Siege of Montevideo (1807) was a major British assault and capture of the Spanish-held city of Montevideo during the Napoleonic Wars, forming a key episode in the British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
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Battle of Montevideo (1814)
The Battle of Montevideo (1814) was a decisive naval engagement in the Argentine War of Independence in which forces under Admiral William Brown defeated the Spanish fleet, securing control of the Río de la Plata region.
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Battle of Caseros
The Battle of Caseros was an 1852 military conflict near Buenos Aires in which Justo José de Urquiza’s forces defeated the regime of Juan Manuel de Rosas, leading to Rosas’s fall and a major reorganization of Argentine national politics.
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Siege of Santiago
The Siege of Santiago was a decisive 1898 U.S. campaign in Cuba that trapped and forced the surrender of Spanish forces, effectively ending major combat in the Spanish–American War.
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Siege of Humaitá
The Siege of Humaitá was a pivotal and protracted military campaign during the Paraguayan War in which Allied forces besieged Paraguay’s heavily fortified river stronghold of Humaitá, aiming to break its control over the Paraguay River and open the way to the interior.
- 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 Montevideo Target entity description: The Siege of Montevideo was a prolonged 19th-century military blockade and series of engagements around Uruguay’s capital, central to the struggle between rival political factions during the Uruguayan Civil War.
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A.
Siege of Montevideo (1807)
The Siege of Montevideo (1807) was a major British assault and capture of the Spanish-held city of Montevideo during the Napoleonic Wars, forming a key episode in the British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
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B.
Battle of Montevideo (1814)
The Battle of Montevideo (1814) was a decisive naval engagement in the Argentine War of Independence in which forces under Admiral William Brown defeated the Spanish fleet, securing control of the Río de la Plata region.
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C.
Battle of Caseros
The Battle of Caseros was an 1852 military conflict near Buenos Aires in which Justo José de Urquiza’s forces defeated the regime of Juan Manuel de Rosas, leading to Rosas’s fall and a major reorganization of Argentine national politics.
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D.
Siege of Santiago
The Siege of Santiago was a decisive 1898 U.S. campaign in Cuba that trapped and forced the surrender of Spanish forces, effectively ending major combat in the Spanish–American War.
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E.
Siege of Humaitá
The Siege of Humaitá was a pivotal and protracted military campaign during the Paraguayan War in which Allied forces besieged Paraguay’s heavily fortified river stronghold of Humaitá, aiming to break its control over the Paraguay River and open the way to the interior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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