Battle of La Coruña
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The Battle of La Coruña was a 1809 engagement of the Peninsular War in which British forces under Sir John Moore fought a rearguard action against Napoleon’s troops in northwestern Spain, enabling the British army’s evacuation by sea.
All labels observed (1)
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| Battle of La Coruña canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22405823 — 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: Battle of La Coruña Context triple: [Battle of Corunna, hasAlternativeName, Battle of La Coruña]
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Battle of Vigo Bay
The Battle of Vigo Bay was a 1702 naval engagement during the War of the Spanish Succession in which an Anglo-Dutch fleet attacked and destroyed a Spanish-French treasure convoy in the harbor of Vigo, Spain.
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Battle of Gijón
The Battle of Gijón was a 1937 Spanish Civil War engagement in Asturias in which Nationalist forces captured the key industrial city of Gijón, effectively ending organized Republican resistance in northern Spain.
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Battle of Algeciras Bay
The Battle of Algeciras Bay was a series of naval engagements in 1801 during the French Revolutionary Wars in which French and Spanish fleets clashed with the British Royal Navy off southern Spain.
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D.
Battle of Río Barbate
The Battle of Río Barbate, more commonly known as the Battle of Guadalete, was the early 8th-century clash in which Muslim forces defeated the Visigothic kingdom in Iberia, paving the way for the Islamic conquest of most of the peninsula.
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E.
Battle of Tamarón
The Battle of Tamarón (1037) was a decisive medieval conflict in which Ferdinand, Count of Castile, defeated and killed King Vermudo III of León, paving the way for Ferdinand to become King of León and significantly reshaping the political landscape of Christian Iberia.
- 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: Battle of La Coruña Target entity description: The Battle of La Coruña was a 1809 engagement of the Peninsular War in which British forces under Sir John Moore fought a rearguard action against Napoleon’s troops in northwestern Spain, enabling the British army’s evacuation by sea.
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A.
Battle of Vigo Bay
The Battle of Vigo Bay was a 1702 naval engagement during the War of the Spanish Succession in which an Anglo-Dutch fleet attacked and destroyed a Spanish-French treasure convoy in the harbor of Vigo, Spain.
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B.
Battle of Gijón
The Battle of Gijón was a 1937 Spanish Civil War engagement in Asturias in which Nationalist forces captured the key industrial city of Gijón, effectively ending organized Republican resistance in northern Spain.
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C.
Battle of Algeciras Bay
The Battle of Algeciras Bay was a series of naval engagements in 1801 during the French Revolutionary Wars in which French and Spanish fleets clashed with the British Royal Navy off southern Spain.
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D.
Battle of Río Barbate
The Battle of Río Barbate, more commonly known as the Battle of Guadalete, was the early 8th-century clash in which Muslim forces defeated the Visigothic kingdom in Iberia, paving the way for the Islamic conquest of most of the peninsula.
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E.
Battle of Tamarón
The Battle of Tamarón (1037) was a decisive medieval conflict in which Ferdinand, Count of Castile, defeated and killed King Vermudo III of León, paving the way for Ferdinand to become King of León and significantly reshaping the political landscape of Christian Iberia.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Napoleonic Wars engagement