Battle of Cape George
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The Battle of Cape George was a 1781 naval engagement during the American Revolutionary War in which British and French forces clashed off the coast of Nova Scotia as part of the wider Atlantic theater of the conflict.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Battle of Cape George canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3317379 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Cape George Context triple: [Atlantic campaign of the American Revolutionary War, hasPart, Battle of Cape George]
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A.
Battle of Cape Lizard
The Battle of Cape Lizard was a 1805 naval engagement during the Napoleonic Wars in which British warships intercepted and defeated a French squadron off the coast of Brittany.
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B.
Battle of Cape Ortegal
The Battle of Cape Ortegal was a 1805 naval engagement during the Napoleonic Wars in which a British squadron decisively defeated a remnant of the Franco-Spanish fleet shortly after Trafalgar.
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C.
Battle of Cape Engaño
The Battle of Cape Engaño was a major naval engagement of the 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II, in which U.S. carrier forces destroyed the last operational Japanese aircraft carriers in a decisive victory.
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D.
Battle of Craney Island
The Battle of Craney Island was a War of 1812 engagement near Norfolk, Virginia, in which American forces successfully repelled a British amphibious assault, helping secure control of the Chesapeake region.
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E.
Battle of Nassau
The Battle of Nassau was a 1776 American Revolutionary War amphibious assault in the Bahamas, notable as one of the first major naval operations of the fledgling United States.
- 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 Cape George Target entity description: The Battle of Cape George was a 1781 naval engagement during the American Revolutionary War in which British and French forces clashed off the coast of Nova Scotia as part of the wider Atlantic theater of the conflict.
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A.
Battle of Cape Lizard
The Battle of Cape Lizard was a 1805 naval engagement during the Napoleonic Wars in which British warships intercepted and defeated a French squadron off the coast of Brittany.
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B.
Battle of Cape Ortegal
The Battle of Cape Ortegal was a 1805 naval engagement during the Napoleonic Wars in which a British squadron decisively defeated a remnant of the Franco-Spanish fleet shortly after Trafalgar.
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C.
Battle of Cape Engaño
The Battle of Cape Engaño was a major naval engagement of the 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II, in which U.S. carrier forces destroyed the last operational Japanese aircraft carriers in a decisive victory.
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D.
Battle of Craney Island
The Battle of Craney Island was a War of 1812 engagement near Norfolk, Virginia, in which American forces successfully repelled a British amphibious assault, helping secure control of the Chesapeake region.
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E.
Battle of Nassau
The Battle of Nassau was a 1776 American Revolutionary War amphibious assault in the Bahamas, notable as one of the first major naval operations of the fledgling United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military engagement
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naval battle ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
French Navy
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Royal Navy ⓘ |
| belligerent |
British forces
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French forces ⓘ |
| combatantSide |
British Empire
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Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| conflictType | naval engagement ⓘ |
| countryInvolved |
France
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Great Britain ⓘ |
| date | 1781 ⓘ |
| era | 18th century ⓘ |
| hasNature | sea battle ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | American Revolutionary era ⓘ |
| location |
Atlantic Ocean
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off the coast of Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| partOf |
Atlantic campaign of the American Revolutionary War
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surface form:
Atlantic theater of the American Revolutionary War
naval operations in the Atlantic during the American Revolutionary War ⓘ naval warfare of the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| region | Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| theater | Atlantic theater ⓘ |
| year | 1781 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Battle of Cape George Description of subject: The Battle of Cape George was a 1781 naval engagement during the American Revolutionary War in which British and French forces clashed off the coast of Nova Scotia as part of the wider Atlantic theater of the conflict.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.