Fort Meigs (site)
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Fort Meigs (site) is one of the historic fortifications that formed part of the defensive ring protecting Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fort Meigs (Washington, D.C.) | 1 |
| Fort Meigs (site) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7586385 — 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 Meigs (site) Context triple: [Civil War Defenses of Washington, hasPart, Fort Meigs (site)]
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A.
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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B.
Fort Harmar
Fort Harmar was a late 18th-century U.S. Army frontier outpost built at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers in present-day Ohio to secure American interests in the Northwest Territory and oversee relations with Native American tribes.
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C.
Fort Recovery State Memorial
Fort Recovery State Memorial is a historic site and park in Ohio that preserves the location of a major 1791 U.S.–Native American conflict and interprets the broader history of early frontier warfare in the Northwest Territory.
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D.
Fort Osage
Fort Osage is a historic early 19th-century U.S. Army outpost and trading post on the Missouri River, significant for its role in frontier defense and commerce during westward expansion.
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E.
River Raisin National Battlefield Park
River Raisin National Battlefield Park is a U.S. National Park Service site preserving and interpreting the War of 1812 battles and their aftermath along the River Raisin in Michigan.
- 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 Meigs (site) Target entity description: Fort Meigs (site) is one of the historic fortifications that formed part of the defensive ring protecting Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War.
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A.
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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B.
Fort Harmar
Fort Harmar was a late 18th-century U.S. Army frontier outpost built at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers in present-day Ohio to secure American interests in the Northwest Territory and oversee relations with Native American tribes.
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C.
Fort Recovery State Memorial
Fort Recovery State Memorial is a historic site and park in Ohio that preserves the location of a major 1791 U.S.–Native American conflict and interprets the broader history of early frontier warfare in the Northwest Territory.
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D.
Fort Osage
Fort Osage is a historic early 19th-century U.S. Army outpost and trading post on the Missouri River, significant for its role in frontier defense and commerce during westward expansion.
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E.
River Raisin National Battlefield Park
River Raisin National Battlefield Park is a U.S. National Park Service site preserving and interpreting the War of 1812 battles and their aftermath along the River Raisin in Michigan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Civil War fortification
ⓘ
historic site ⓘ military installation ⓘ |
| category |
American Civil War forts
ⓘ
Military history of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| controlledBy | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| function | defense of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| garrison | Union forces ⓘ |
| hasRole | protection of the national capital ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic fortification site ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Washington metropolitan area
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. defensive ring ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Fort Meigs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
defenses of Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
ring of fortifications around Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| usedDuring | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Fort Meigs (site) Description of subject: Fort Meigs (site) is one of the historic fortifications that formed part of the defensive ring protecting Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fort Meigs (Washington, D.C.)