Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783)
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The Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783) was a conflict during the American Revolutionary War in which Spain joined France and the American colonies against Britain, focusing on naval battles and territorial struggles in Europe and the Americas.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783) canonical | 3 |
| American Revolutionary War (Anglo-Spanish theater) | 1 |
| American Revolutionary War (as Spanish base against Britain) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2610592 — 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: Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783) Context triple: [Arthur Phillip, participatedIn, Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783)]
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Anglo-Spanish War (1727–1729)
The Anglo-Spanish War (1727–1729) was an 18th-century conflict between Britain and Spain, chiefly marked by the British siege of Gibraltar and rooted in ongoing commercial and territorial rivalries following the War of the Spanish Succession.
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B.
First Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660)
The First Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) was a mid-17th-century conflict between Cromwellian England and Habsburg Spain, fought largely over trade, colonial dominance, and religious-political rivalry in Europe and the Americas.
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C.
Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)
The Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) was a protracted conflict between Protestant England and Catholic Spain marked by naval clashes, privateering, and colonial rivalry during the late 16th century.
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D.
Third Anglo-Dutch War
The Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672–1674) was a naval-focused conflict in which England, allied with France, unsuccessfully sought to break Dutch maritime and commercial dominance during the wider Franco-Dutch War.
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E.
Second Anglo-Dutch War
The Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667) was a major 17th-century naval conflict between England and the Dutch Republic, fought primarily over trade dominance and maritime supremacy.
- 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: Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783) Target entity description: The Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783) was a conflict during the American Revolutionary War in which Spain joined France and the American colonies against Britain, focusing on naval battles and territorial struggles in Europe and the Americas.
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A.
Anglo-Spanish War (1727–1729)
The Anglo-Spanish War (1727–1729) was an 18th-century conflict between Britain and Spain, chiefly marked by the British siege of Gibraltar and rooted in ongoing commercial and territorial rivalries following the War of the Spanish Succession.
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B.
First Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660)
The First Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) was a mid-17th-century conflict between Cromwellian England and Habsburg Spain, fought largely over trade, colonial dominance, and religious-political rivalry in Europe and the Americas.
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C.
Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)
The Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) was a protracted conflict between Protestant England and Catholic Spain marked by naval clashes, privateering, and colonial rivalry during the late 16th century.
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D.
Third Anglo-Dutch War
The Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672–1674) was a naval-focused conflict in which England, allied with France, unsuccessfully sought to break Dutch maritime and commercial dominance during the wider Franco-Dutch War.
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E.
Second Anglo-Dutch War
The Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667) was a major 17th-century naval conflict between England and the Dutch Republic, fought primarily over trade dominance and maritime supremacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783) Description of subject: The Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783) was a conflict during the American Revolutionary War in which Spain joined France and the American colonies against Britain, focusing on naval battles and territorial struggles in Europe and the Americas.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
American Revolutionary War (as Spanish base against Britain)
this entity surface form:
American Revolutionary War (Anglo-Spanish theater)
subject surface form:
Arthur Phillip