The Battle of Alcazar
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The Battle of Alcazar is an Elizabethan history play, often attributed to George Peele, dramatizing the 1578 Battle of Alcácer Quibir and reflecting contemporary English interests in North African politics and warfare.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Battle of Alcazar canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19995858 — 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: The Battle of Alcazar Context triple: [Admiral’s Men, stagedPlay, The Battle of Alcazar]
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A.
Siege of the Alcázar
The Siege of the Alcázar was a pivotal early battle of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, in which Nationalist forces held out for months against a prolonged Republican siege of the fortress in Toledo, becoming a powerful symbol of Nationalist resistance.
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B.
Battle of Tres Castillos
The Battle of Tres Castillos (1880) was a decisive engagement in which U.S. and Mexican forces defeated and killed Apache leader Victorio and many of his followers, effectively ending his campaign in Victorio's War.
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C.
Batalla de Las Piedras
Batalla de Las Piedras fue un enfrentamiento militar decisivo de 1811 en la Revolución Oriental, en el que las fuerzas independentistas lideradas por José Gervasio Artigas derrotaron a las tropas españolas en el actual Uruguay.
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D.
Battle of Sahagún
The Battle of Sahagún was a cavalry action during the Peninsular War (1808) in which British light dragoons decisively defeated French cavalry near the town of Sahagún in Spain.
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E.
Battle of Mal Tiempo
The Battle of Mal Tiempo was a key 1895 engagement in the Cuban War of Independence in which Cuban rebel forces won a decisive victory against Spanish colonial troops.
- 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: The Battle of Alcazar Target entity description: The Battle of Alcazar is an Elizabethan history play, often attributed to George Peele, dramatizing the 1578 Battle of Alcácer Quibir and reflecting contemporary English interests in North African politics and warfare.
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A.
Siege of the Alcázar
The Siege of the Alcázar was a pivotal early battle of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, in which Nationalist forces held out for months against a prolonged Republican siege of the fortress in Toledo, becoming a powerful symbol of Nationalist resistance.
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B.
Battle of Tres Castillos
The Battle of Tres Castillos (1880) was a decisive engagement in which U.S. and Mexican forces defeated and killed Apache leader Victorio and many of his followers, effectively ending his campaign in Victorio's War.
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C.
Batalla de Las Piedras
Batalla de Las Piedras fue un enfrentamiento militar decisivo de 1811 en la Revolución Oriental, en el que las fuerzas independentistas lideradas por José Gervasio Artigas derrotaron a las tropas españolas en el actual Uruguay.
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D.
Battle of Sahagún
The Battle of Sahagún was a cavalry action during the Peninsular War (1808) in which British light dragoons decisively defeated French cavalry near the town of Sahagún in Spain.
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E.
Battle of Mal Tiempo
The Battle of Mal Tiempo was a key 1895 engagement in the Cuban War of Independence in which Cuban rebel forces won a decisive victory against Spanish colonial troops.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.