Lazareto quarantine station
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Lazareto quarantine station is a historic island complex in Mahon Harbour, Menorca, that once served as a major maritime quarantine facility for controlling infectious diseases.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Batavia leper colony | 1 |
| Lazareto quarantine station canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21863393 — 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: Lazareto quarantine station Context triple: [Mahon harbour, hasHistoricSite, Lazareto quarantine station]
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A.
Lazareto
Lazareto is a settlement on the island of São Vicente in Cape Verde, known primarily as a small coastal community near the city of Mindelo.
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B.
Lazzaretto Nuovo
Lazzaretto Nuovo is a historic island in the Venetian Lagoon that once served as a quarantine station to protect Venice from plague and other epidemics.
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C.
Lazzaretto Vecchio
Lazzaretto Vecchio is a small historic island near Venice that once served as one of the world’s earliest quarantine stations for plague and other contagious diseases.
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D.
Lazzaretto
Lazzaretto is a coastal locality and subdivision of the town of Muggia in northeastern Italy, near the border with Slovenia.
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E.
Lazzaretto of Ancona
The Lazzaretto of Ancona is a historic 18th-century pentagonal fortress-island in Ancona, Italy, originally built as a quarantine station and later used for military and civic purposes.
- 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: Lazareto quarantine station Target entity description: Lazareto quarantine station is a historic island complex in Mahon Harbour, Menorca, that once served as a major maritime quarantine facility for controlling infectious diseases.
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A.
Lazareto
Lazareto is a settlement on the island of São Vicente in Cape Verde, known primarily as a small coastal community near the city of Mindelo.
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B.
Lazzaretto Nuovo
Lazzaretto Nuovo is a historic island in the Venetian Lagoon that once served as a quarantine station to protect Venice from plague and other epidemics.
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C.
Lazzaretto Vecchio
Lazzaretto Vecchio is a small historic island near Venice that once served as one of the world’s earliest quarantine stations for plague and other contagious diseases.
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D.
Lazzaretto
Lazzaretto is a coastal locality and subdivision of the town of Muggia in northeastern Italy, near the border with Slovenia.
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E.
Lazzaretto of Ancona
The Lazzaretto of Ancona is a historic 18th-century pentagonal fortress-island in Ancona, Italy, originally built as a quarantine station and later used for military and civic purposes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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