Salisbury Prison
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Salisbury Prison was a notorious Confederate military prison in Salisbury, North Carolina, known for its severe overcrowding, harsh conditions, and high mortality among Union prisoners during the American Civil War.
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| Salisbury Prison canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22927884 — 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: Salisbury Prison Context triple: [Civil War prison system of the Confederacy, notablePrison, Salisbury Prison]
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Cooma Gaol
Cooma Gaol is a historic former prison in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia, notable for its 19th-century origins and later use for various correctional and institutional purposes.
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Beaumaris Gaol
Beaumaris Gaol is a historic 19th-century prison and courthouse in Beaumaris, Anglesey, now preserved as a museum illustrating Victorian penal life.
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C.
Tolhouse Gaol
Tolhouse Gaol is a historic former prison and courthouse in Great Yarmouth, England, now preserved as a museum showcasing local crime and punishment history.
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D.
Pentridge Prison
Pentridge Prison was a notorious maximum-security prison in Coburg, Victoria, Australia, known for housing some of the country’s most infamous criminals before its closure in the 1990s.
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E.
Outram Prison
Outram Prison was a former colonial-era prison complex in Singapore known for its harsh conditions and later historical significance before being demolished.
- 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: Salisbury Prison Target entity description: Salisbury Prison was a notorious Confederate military prison in Salisbury, North Carolina, known for its severe overcrowding, harsh conditions, and high mortality among Union prisoners during the American Civil War.
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A.
Cooma Gaol
Cooma Gaol is a historic former prison in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia, notable for its 19th-century origins and later use for various correctional and institutional purposes.
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B.
Beaumaris Gaol
Beaumaris Gaol is a historic 19th-century prison and courthouse in Beaumaris, Anglesey, now preserved as a museum illustrating Victorian penal life.
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C.
Tolhouse Gaol
Tolhouse Gaol is a historic former prison and courthouse in Great Yarmouth, England, now preserved as a museum showcasing local crime and punishment history.
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D.
Pentridge Prison
Pentridge Prison was a notorious maximum-security prison in Coburg, Victoria, Australia, known for housing some of the country’s most infamous criminals before its closure in the 1990s.
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E.
Outram Prison
Outram Prison was a former colonial-era prison complex in Singapore known for its harsh conditions and later historical significance before being demolished.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.