Siege of Pemaquid (1696)
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The Siege of Pemaquid (1696) was a French and Wabanaki Confederacy attack during King William’s War that resulted in the destruction of the English stronghold at Fort William Henry on the Maine coast.
All labels observed (1)
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| Siege of Pemaquid (1696) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19776339 — 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 Pemaquid (1696) Context triple: [Fort William Henry (Pemaquid), significantEvent, Siege of Pemaquid (1696)]
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Battle of Quebec (1690)
The Battle of Quebec (1690) was a failed English colonial expedition to capture the French stronghold of Quebec during the early stages of the North American theater of the Nine Years' War.
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B.
Battle of Fort Anne
The Battle of Fort Anne was a 1777 American Revolutionary War engagement in New York in which retreating American forces briefly checked the British advance following the fall of Fort Ticonderoga.
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C.
Siege of Newport
The Siege of Newport was a 1778 American Revolutionary War campaign in Rhode Island in which combined American and French forces unsuccessfully attempted to dislodge the British garrison from Newport.
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D.
Battle of Penobscot Bay
The Battle of Penobscot Bay was a 1779 American Revolutionary War naval and land engagement in present-day Maine, where a failed American expedition against a British fortification led to one of the worst naval defeats in United States history.
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E.
Battle of Fort Beauséjour
The Battle of Fort Beauséjour (June 1755) was an early French and Indian War siege in which British and colonial forces captured a key French stronghold on the Chignecto Isthmus, helping secure control of Acadia and paving the way for the expulsion of the Acadians.
- 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 Pemaquid (1696) Target entity description: The Siege of Pemaquid (1696) was a French and Wabanaki Confederacy attack during King William’s War that resulted in the destruction of the English stronghold at Fort William Henry on the Maine coast.
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A.
Battle of Quebec (1690)
The Battle of Quebec (1690) was a failed English colonial expedition to capture the French stronghold of Quebec during the early stages of the North American theater of the Nine Years' War.
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B.
Battle of Fort Anne
The Battle of Fort Anne was a 1777 American Revolutionary War engagement in New York in which retreating American forces briefly checked the British advance following the fall of Fort Ticonderoga.
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C.
Siege of Newport
The Siege of Newport was a 1778 American Revolutionary War campaign in Rhode Island in which combined American and French forces unsuccessfully attempted to dislodge the British garrison from Newport.
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D.
Battle of Penobscot Bay
The Battle of Penobscot Bay was a 1779 American Revolutionary War naval and land engagement in present-day Maine, where a failed American expedition against a British fortification led to one of the worst naval defeats in United States history.
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E.
Battle of Fort Beauséjour
The Battle of Fort Beauséjour (June 1755) was an early French and Indian War siege in which British and colonial forces captured a key French stronghold on the Chignecto Isthmus, helping secure control of Acadia and paving the way for the expulsion of the Acadians.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.