Fort Plaisance
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Fort Plaisance was a French colonial fortification built to protect the fishing settlement at Placentia in what is now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fort Plaisance canonical | 1 |
| Fort Saint-Louis | 1 |
| French colonial defenses of Plaisance | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8510497 — 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 Plaisance Context triple: [Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, hasFortification, Fort Plaisance]
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A.
Fort Macomb
Fort Macomb is a 19th-century masonry coastal defense fortification near New Orleans, Louisiana, built to protect the approaches to the city and now preserved as a historic site.
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B.
Fort Polk
Fort Polk is a major U.S. Army installation in Louisiana known primarily as a training center for combat readiness and large-scale field exercises.
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C.
Fort Conde
Fort Conde is a reconstructed 18th-century French colonial fort and museum in Mobile, Alabama, that interprets the region’s early military and colonial history.
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D.
Fort Saint-Jean
Fort Saint-Jean is a historic coastal fortress in Marseille, France, guarding the entrance to the Old Port and now integrated into the MuCEM museum complex.
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E.
Fort Sackville, Vincennes
Fort Sackville in Vincennes was a British-held frontier outpost during the American Revolutionary War, famously recaptured by George Rogers Clark’s American forces in 1779.
- 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 Plaisance Target entity description: Fort Plaisance was a French colonial fortification built to protect the fishing settlement at Placentia in what is now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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A.
Fort Macomb
Fort Macomb is a 19th-century masonry coastal defense fortification near New Orleans, Louisiana, built to protect the approaches to the city and now preserved as a historic site.
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B.
Fort Polk
Fort Polk is a major U.S. Army installation in Louisiana known primarily as a training center for combat readiness and large-scale field exercises.
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C.
Fort Conde
Fort Conde is a reconstructed 18th-century French colonial fort and museum in Mobile, Alabama, that interprets the region’s early military and colonial history.
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D.
Fort Saint-Jean
Fort Saint-Jean is a historic coastal fortress in Marseille, France, guarding the entrance to the Old Port and now integrated into the MuCEM museum complex.
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E.
Fort Sackville, Vincennes
Fort Sackville in Vincennes was a British-held frontier outpost during the American Revolutionary War, famously recaptured by George Rogers Clark’s American forces in 1779.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French colonial fort
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fort ⓘ military fortification ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
defense of fishing settlement
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military defense ⓘ protection of French fisheries ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | archaeological site ⓘ |
| languageOfAdministration | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
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New France ⓘ Newfoundland and Labrador ⓘ Placentia ⓘ Placentia Bay ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Newfoundland Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Atlantic coast of North America
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Newfoundland ⓘ
linked to:
island of Newfoundland
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| materialUsed |
earthworks
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stone ⓘ timber ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Plaisance (French name for Placentia) ⓘ |
| partOf |
French Atlantic fishery system
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French colonial defenses in Newfoundland ⓘ |
| presentDayJurisdiction |
Canada
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Province of Newfoundland and Labrador ⓘ
linked to:
Newfoundland and Labrador
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| strategicImportance |
control of access to Placentia Bay
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protection of French presence in Newfoundland ⓘ |
| usedFor |
protection of cod-fishing interests
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protection of fishing infrastructure ⓘ protection of settlers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Fort Plaisance Description of subject: Fort Plaisance was a French colonial fortification built to protect the fishing settlement at Placentia in what is now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Fort Plaisance
linked to: Fort Plaisance