The Verne High Angle Battery
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The Verne High Angle Battery is a late 19th-century coastal artillery fortification on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England, designed to protect Portland Harbour with high-angle gun fire.
All labels observed (2)
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| The Verne High Angle Battery canonical | 1 |
| Verne High Angle Battery | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21487398 — 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: The Verne High Angle Battery Context triple: [Portland Harbour defences, hasPart, The Verne High Angle Battery]
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A.
Merville Battery
Merville Battery is a former German coastal artillery battery in Normandy, France, that played a key role in the D-Day landings and was famously assaulted by British paratroopers.
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B.
Haining’s Head Battery
Haining’s Head Battery is a coastal artillery fortification that formed part of the historic Halifax Defence Complex protecting Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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C.
Ives Point Battery
Ives Point Battery is a historic coastal artillery fortification that formed part of the defensive network protecting Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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D.
Princess Caroline’s Battery
Princess Caroline’s Battery is a historic coastal artillery battery on the Rock of Gibraltar, built to defend the territory and its strategic strait.
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E.
Harding’s Battery
Harding’s Battery is a historic coastal artillery battery at Europa Point in Gibraltar, built to defend the strategically important entrance to the Mediterranean.
- 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 Verne High Angle Battery Target entity description: The Verne High Angle Battery is a late 19th-century coastal artillery fortification on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England, designed to protect Portland Harbour with high-angle gun fire.
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A.
Merville Battery
Merville Battery is a former German coastal artillery battery in Normandy, France, that played a key role in the D-Day landings and was famously assaulted by British paratroopers.
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B.
Haining’s Head Battery
Haining’s Head Battery is a coastal artillery fortification that formed part of the historic Halifax Defence Complex protecting Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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C.
Ives Point Battery
Ives Point Battery is a historic coastal artillery fortification that formed part of the defensive network protecting Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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D.
Princess Caroline’s Battery
Princess Caroline’s Battery is a historic coastal artillery battery on the Rock of Gibraltar, built to defend the territory and its strategic strait.
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E.
Harding’s Battery
Harding’s Battery is a historic coastal artillery battery at Europa Point in Gibraltar, built to defend the strategically important entrance to the Mediterranean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Verne (local hilltop area)
linked to: The Verne High Angle Battery