New York land patents
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New York land patents were colonial-era land grants issued by the Province of New York that became the basis for major territorial disputes over ownership and jurisdiction in what is now Vermont and surrounding regions.
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| New York land patents canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20085274 — 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: New York land patents Context triple: [New Hampshire Grants, disputedWith, New York land patents]
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A.
Hardenbergh Patent
The Hardenbergh Patent was a massive early 18th-century land grant in colonial New York that helped shape settlement and landownership patterns in the Catskills region.
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B.
Connecticut Land Company
The Connecticut Land Company was a group of investors formed in the late 18th century to purchase and develop the Western Reserve in what is now northeastern Ohio.
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C.
Harrietstown tract
The Harrietstown tract is a historic land grant or surveyed parcel in upstate New York that gave its name to the town of Harrietstown.
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D.
Yazoo land companies
The Yazoo land companies were a group of speculative land corporations involved in a notorious late-18th-century scandal over the fraudulent sale of vast tracts of what is now Alabama and Mississippi by the state of Georgia.
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E.
Seneca reservations in New York
The Seneca reservations in New York are sovereign Native American territories in western New York that serve as the remaining homelands of the Seneca Nation, a member of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
- 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: New York land patents Target entity description: New York land patents were colonial-era land grants issued by the Province of New York that became the basis for major territorial disputes over ownership and jurisdiction in what is now Vermont and surrounding regions.
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A.
Hardenbergh Patent
The Hardenbergh Patent was a massive early 18th-century land grant in colonial New York that helped shape settlement and landownership patterns in the Catskills region.
-
B.
Connecticut Land Company
The Connecticut Land Company was a group of investors formed in the late 18th century to purchase and develop the Western Reserve in what is now northeastern Ohio.
-
C.
Harrietstown tract
The Harrietstown tract is a historic land grant or surveyed parcel in upstate New York that gave its name to the town of Harrietstown.
-
D.
Yazoo land companies
The Yazoo land companies were a group of speculative land corporations involved in a notorious late-18th-century scandal over the fraudulent sale of vast tracts of what is now Alabama and Mississippi by the state of Georgia.
-
E.
Seneca reservations in New York
The Seneca reservations in New York are sovereign Native American territories in western New York that serve as the remaining homelands of the Seneca Nation, a member of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
New Hampshire Grants (later Vermont)