Fort-Lamy
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Fort-Lamy was the former colonial name of Chad’s capital city, now known as N'Djamena, established by the French along the Chari River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fort-Lamy canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5037593 — 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: Fort-Lamy Context triple: [N'Djamena, foundedAs, Fort-Lamy]
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A.
Fort-Royal
Fort-Royal is the former name of Fort-de-France, the capital city and main port of the French Caribbean island of Martinique.
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B.
Gates Fort
Gates Fort is a small historic coastal fortification in St. George’s, Bermuda, built to guard the entrance to St. George’s Harbour.
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C.
Fort McIntosh
Fort McIntosh was an 18th-century U.S. military post in present-day Pennsylvania that served as a strategic frontier fort and the site of significant early American treaties with Native American nations.
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D.
Fort Patience
Fort Patience is a historic coastal fort in Ghana, built during the colonial era as part of the European trading and defensive network along the Gold Coast.
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E.
Fort Loudoun
Fort Loudoun was an 18th-century British colonial fort in what is now Tennessee, built during the French and Indian War to secure alliances with Native American tribes and protect the frontier.
- 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: Fort-Lamy Target entity description: Fort-Lamy was the former colonial name of Chad’s capital city, now known as N'Djamena, established by the French along the Chari River.
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A.
Fort-Royal
Fort-Royal is the former name of Fort-de-France, the capital city and main port of the French Caribbean island of Martinique.
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B.
Gates Fort
Gates Fort is a small historic coastal fortification in St. George’s, Bermuda, built to guard the entrance to St. George’s Harbour.
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C.
Fort McIntosh
Fort McIntosh was an 18th-century U.S. military post in present-day Pennsylvania that served as a strategic frontier fort and the site of significant early American treaties with Native American nations.
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D.
Fort Patience
Fort Patience is a historic coastal fort in Ghana, built during the colonial era as part of the European trading and defensive network along the Gold Coast.
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E.
Fort Loudoun
Fort Loudoun was an 18th-century British colonial fort in what is now Tennessee, built during the French and Indian War to secure alliances with Native American tribes and protect the frontier.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial city
ⓘ
former name of a city ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Chad ⓘ |
| climate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| colonialPower | France ⓘ |
| colonialStatus | capital of French Chad ⓘ |
| country | Chad ⓘ |
| dateFounded |
1900
ⓘ
29 May 1900 ⓘ |
| dateRenamed |
1973
ⓘ
6 November 1973 ⓘ |
| establishedBy |
French Third Republic
ⓘ
French colonial administration ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | N'Djamena ⓘ |
| foundedAs |
military post
ⓘ
trading post ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Émile Gentil ⓘ |
| foundingEvent | French military expedition on the Chari River ⓘ |
| function |
commercial hub
ⓘ
military garrison ⓘ river port ⓘ |
| geographicCoordinates | approximately 12.1°N 15.0°E ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | French colonial era in Chad ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
administrative center of French Equatorial Africa region
ⓘ
administrative center of the territory of Chad ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chad
ⓘ
Lake Chad basin ⓘ Sahel region ⓘ
linked to:
Sahel
|
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+1 ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Logone River ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Chari River ⓘ |
| locatedOpposite | Kousséri ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Amédée-François Lamy ⓘ |
| namedBy | French colonial authorities ⓘ |
| partOf | French Equatorial Africa ⓘ |
| presentDayName | N'Djamena ⓘ |
| reasonForName | commemoration of Amédée-François Lamy ⓘ |
| reasonForRenaming | Africanization of place names ⓘ |
| renamedBy |
President François Tombalbaye
ⓘ
linked to:
François Tombalbaye
|
| renamedTo | N'Djamena ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | French military operations in central Africa ⓘ |
| successor | N'Djamena ⓘ |
| transportRole | junction of river and overland routes in central Africa ⓘ |
| usedLanguage |
Arabic
ⓘ
French ⓘ local Chadian languages ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Fort-Lamy Description of subject: Fort-Lamy was the former colonial name of Chad’s capital city, now known as N'Djamena, established by the French along the Chari River.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.