Fort Napoleon
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Fort Napoleon is a historic coastal fortress in Ostend, Belgium, built by Napoleon’s forces in the early 19th century and now serving as a museum and cultural site.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fort Napoleon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5788135 — 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 Napoleon Context triple: [Ostend, hasAttraction, Fort Napoleon]
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Fort Delgrès
Fort Delgrès is a historic 17th–18th century French military fortress in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, notable for its role in resistance to the re-establishment of slavery and its commanding views over the Caribbean Sea.
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B.
Pont Bonaparte
Pont Bonaparte is a historic bridge in Lyon, France, spanning the Saône River and linking the Old Town with the central Presqu’île district.
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Fort du Roule
Fort du Roule is a coastal fortification overlooking Cherbourg in Normandy, France, notable for its role in World War II and its commanding views over the English Channel.
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Fort Saint-Elme
Fort Saint-Elme is a historic coastal fortress in southern France overlooking the Mediterranean, known for its star-shaped Renaissance military architecture and panoramic views of the Côte Vermeille.
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E.
Fort Napoléon des Saintes
Fort Napoléon des Saintes is a 19th-century hilltop fortress and museum on Terre-de-Haut in the Îles des Saintes, Guadeloupe, known for its panoramic views and historical military architecture.
- 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 Napoleon Target entity description: Fort Napoleon is a historic coastal fortress in Ostend, Belgium, built by Napoleon’s forces in the early 19th century and now serving as a museum and cultural site.
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A.
Fort Delgrès
Fort Delgrès is a historic 17th–18th century French military fortress in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, notable for its role in resistance to the re-establishment of slavery and its commanding views over the Caribbean Sea.
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B.
Pont Bonaparte
Pont Bonaparte is a historic bridge in Lyon, France, spanning the Saône River and linking the Old Town with the central Presqu’île district.
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C.
Fort du Roule
Fort du Roule is a coastal fortification overlooking Cherbourg in Normandy, France, notable for its role in World War II and its commanding views over the English Channel.
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D.
Fort Saint-Elme
Fort Saint-Elme is a historic coastal fortress in southern France overlooking the Mediterranean, known for its star-shaped Renaissance military architecture and panoramic views of the Côte Vermeille.
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E.
Fort Napoléon des Saintes
Fort Napoléon des Saintes is a 19th-century hilltop fortress and museum on Terre-de-Haut in the Îles des Saintes, Guadeloupe, known for its panoramic views and historical military architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fortress
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historic site ⓘ museum ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | star fort ⓘ |
| builtDuring | Napoleonic Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructedBy |
French Empire
NERFINISHED
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Napoleon’s forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionEnd | 1814 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1811 ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Belgium ⓘ |
| currentUse |
cultural site
ⓘ
museum ⓘ |
| hasExhibitionTopic |
Napoleonic era
NERFINISHED
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local history of Ostend ⓘ military history ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bastions
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casemates ⓘ central courtyard ⓘ moat ⓘ ramparts ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
artillery battery
ⓘ
coastal defense ⓘ cultural venue ⓘ museum ⓘ |
| hasView |
North Sea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ostend beach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | protected monument in Belgium ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Belgian coast
NERFINISHED
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Ostend NERFINISHED ⓘ West Flanders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Ostend dunes
NERFINISHED
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Ostend harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | North Sea coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialUsed | brick ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Napoleon Bonaparte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| operator | City of Ostend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Flemish Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| usedBy |
French army
NERFINISHED
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German army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedDuring |
World War I
NERFINISHED
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World War II ⓘ |
| usedFor |
events
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exhibitions ⓘ guided tours ⓘ military defense ⓘ |
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: Fort Napoleon Description of subject: Fort Napoleon is a historic coastal fortress in Ostend, Belgium, built by Napoleon’s forces in the early 19th century and now serving as a museum and cultural site.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.