siege of Angers (1793)
E521748
The siege of Angers (1793) was a key episode of the War in the Vendée during the French Revolution, in which Royalist insurgents unsuccessfully attempted to capture the Republican-held city of Angers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Republican garrison of Angers | 1 |
| siege of Angers (1793) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5450299 — 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: siege of Angers (1793) Context triple: [Vendée uprising, hasPart, siege of Angers (1793)]
-
A.
Battle of Saumur (1793)
The Battle of Saumur (1793) was a significant engagement of the War in the Vendée during the French Revolutionary Wars, in which Royalist insurgents temporarily captured the town of Saumur from Republican forces.
-
B.
Battle of Le Mans (1793)
The Battle of Le Mans (1793) was a major engagement of the War in the Vendée during the French Revolution, in which Republican forces crushed the retreating Vendéan army in a decisive and bloody defeat.
-
C.
Siege of Paris
The Siege of Paris was a pivotal 1870–1871 military blockade by Prussian-led forces that led to the French capital’s surrender and effectively decided the outcome of the Franco-Prussian War.
-
D.
Siege of Belfort
The Siege of Belfort was a notable Franco-Prussian War engagement in 1870–1871 in which French forces tenaciously defended the fortified city of Belfort against prolonged Prussian attack.
-
E.
Battle of Cholet (1793)
The Battle of Cholet (1793) was a major engagement of the War in the Vendée during the French Revolutionary Wars, in which Republican forces decisively defeated the Royalist-Vendéan army, leading to a crucial turning point in the conflict.
- 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: siege of Angers (1793) Target entity description: The siege of Angers (1793) was a key episode of the War in the Vendée during the French Revolution, in which Royalist insurgents unsuccessfully attempted to capture the Republican-held city of Angers.
-
A.
Battle of Saumur (1793)
The Battle of Saumur (1793) was a significant engagement of the War in the Vendée during the French Revolutionary Wars, in which Royalist insurgents temporarily captured the town of Saumur from Republican forces.
-
B.
Battle of Le Mans (1793)
The Battle of Le Mans (1793) was a major engagement of the War in the Vendée during the French Revolution, in which Republican forces crushed the retreating Vendéan army in a decisive and bloody defeat.
-
C.
Siege of Paris
The Siege of Paris was a pivotal 1870–1871 military blockade by Prussian-led forces that led to the French capital’s surrender and effectively decided the outcome of the Franco-Prussian War.
-
D.
Siege of Belfort
The Siege of Belfort was a notable Franco-Prussian War engagement in 1870–1871 in which French forces tenaciously defended the fortified city of Belfort against prolonged Prussian attack.
-
E.
Battle of Cholet (1793)
The Battle of Cholet (1793) was a major engagement of the War in the Vendée during the French Revolutionary Wars, in which Republican forces decisively defeated the Royalist-Vendéan army, leading to a crucial turning point in the conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military engagement
ⓘ
siege ⓘ |
| attacker | Royalist insurgents ⓘ |
| belligerent1 | Royalist insurgents ⓘ |
| belligerent2 | Republican forces ⓘ |
| chronology | French Revolution ⓘ |
| conflict |
War in the Vendée
ⓘ
linked to:
Vendée uprising
|
| country | France ⓘ |
| defender |
Republican garrison of Angers
ⓘ
linked to:
siege of Angers (1793)
|
| hasLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasSide |
French Republicans
ⓘ
linked to:
French revolutionaries
French Royalists ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | late 18th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Angers
ⓘ
France ⓘ Maine-et-Loire ⓘ |
| objective | capture the city of Angers ⓘ |
| outcome | Royalist attempt to capture Angers failed ⓘ |
| partOf |
French Revolutionary Wars
ⓘ
War in the Vendée ⓘ
linked to:
Vendée uprising
|
| relatedTo |
Vendéan Royalist uprising
ⓘ
counter-revolutionary movements in western France ⓘ |
| result | Republican victory ⓘ |
| significance | key episode of the War in the Vendée ⓘ |
| statusOfCity | Republican-held city at the time of the siege ⓘ |
| year | 1793 ⓘ |
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: siege of Angers (1793) Description of subject: The siege of Angers (1793) was a key episode of the War in the Vendée during the French Revolution, in which Royalist insurgents unsuccessfully attempted to capture the Republican-held city of Angers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: siege of Angers (1793)