New London, Connecticut Colony
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New London, Connecticut Colony was a significant 17th- and 18th-century New England port and maritime center located on the Thames River in southeastern Connecticut.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New London, Connecticut Colony canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7449130 — 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: New London, Connecticut Colony Context triple: [Groton, Connecticut Colony, adjacentTo, New London, Connecticut Colony]
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A.
Hartford, Connecticut Colony
Hartford, Connecticut Colony was one of the early English settlements in New England that became a principal town of the Connecticut Colony and later the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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B.
New Haven Colony
New Haven Colony was a 17th-century English Puritan settlement in what is now Connecticut, founded as a theocratic community with strict religious and legal codes.
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C.
Norwich, Colony of Connecticut
Norwich, Colony of Connecticut was an 18th-century New England town in the British colony of Connecticut, notable as the birthplace of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold.
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D.
Windham, Connecticut Colony
Windham, Connecticut Colony was an early New England town in colonial Connecticut that served as the birthplace of future U.S. statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence Samuel Huntington.
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E.
Canterbury, Connecticut Colony
Canterbury, Connecticut Colony was an 18th-century New England town in colonial Connecticut, known as the birthplace of surveyor and city founder Moses Cleaveland.
- 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: New London, Connecticut Colony Target entity description: New London, Connecticut Colony was a significant 17th- and 18th-century New England port and maritime center located on the Thames River in southeastern Connecticut.
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A.
Hartford, Connecticut Colony
Hartford, Connecticut Colony was one of the early English settlements in New England that became a principal town of the Connecticut Colony and later the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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B.
New Haven Colony
New Haven Colony was a 17th-century English Puritan settlement in what is now Connecticut, founded as a theocratic community with strict religious and legal codes.
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C.
Norwich, Colony of Connecticut
Norwich, Colony of Connecticut was an 18th-century New England town in the British colony of Connecticut, notable as the birthplace of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold.
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D.
Windham, Connecticut Colony
Windham, Connecticut Colony was an early New England town in colonial Connecticut that served as the birthplace of future U.S. statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence Samuel Huntington.
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E.
Canterbury, Connecticut Colony
Canterbury, Connecticut Colony was an 18th-century New England town in colonial Connecticut, known as the birthplace of surveyor and city founder Moses Cleaveland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic city
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maritime center ⓘ port city ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Groton, Connecticut Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attackDate | 1781 ⓘ |
| attackedBy | Benedict Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| charterDate | 1649 ⓘ |
| charteredAs | town ⓘ |
| colonialStatus | self-governing town in Connecticut Colony ⓘ |
| country |
Great Britain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| currentLocation | New London, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economy |
Atlantic trade
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coastal shipping ⓘ fishing ⓘ shipbuilding ⓘ whaling ⓘ |
| event | Battle of Groton Heights NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedAs | plantation at Nameaug ⓘ |
| foundedBy | John Winthrop the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1646 ⓘ |
| governedBy | General Court of Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFunction | naval base area ⓘ |
| hasHarbor | deep-water harbor ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Connecticut Colony
NERFINISHED
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New England ⓘ Thames River valley NERFINISHED ⓘ southeastern Connecticut ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Thames River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | strategic harbor on the Atlantic seaboard ⓘ |
| originalName | Nameaug NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
British America
NERFINISHED
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Connecticut River–Long Island Sound trade network NERFINISHED ⓘ Thirteen Colonies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Long Island Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Congregationalism ⓘ |
| roleIn | American Revolutionary War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significance |
important colonial maritime center
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major 17th-century New England port ⓘ major 18th-century New England port ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
17th century
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18th century ⓘ |
| usedFor | privateering ⓘ |
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: New London, Connecticut Colony Description of subject: New London, Connecticut Colony was a significant 17th- and 18th-century New England port and maritime center located on the Thames River in southeastern Connecticut.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Butler