Fort McLane, New Mexico Territory
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Fort McLane, New Mexico Territory was a 19th-century U.S. military post in the American Southwest, historically noted as the site where the prominent Apache leader Mangas Coloradas was killed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fort McLane, New Mexico Territory canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9784073 — 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 McLane, New Mexico Territory Context triple: [Mangas Coloradas, placeOfDeath, Fort McLane, New Mexico Territory]
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A.
Fort Canby
Fort Canby was a former U.S. Army coastal defense fortification located near the mouth of the Columbia River in Washington State.
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B.
Fort Yates
Fort Yates is a small community in North Dakota that serves as the administrative and cultural center of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
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C.
Fort Kearny
Fort Kearny was a 19th-century U.S. Army outpost in Nebraska that served as a key way station and protection point for pioneers traveling west along the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.
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D.
Fort Carson
Fort Carson is a major U.S. Army installation near Colorado Springs, Colorado, known for hosting key space, infantry, and combat support units.
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E.
Fort Stockton
Fort Stockton is a small historic city in Pecos County, West Texas, known for its frontier military fort, desert landscape, and role as a regional service and transportation hub.
- 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 McLane, New Mexico Territory Target entity description: Fort McLane, New Mexico Territory was a 19th-century U.S. military post in the American Southwest, historically noted as the site where the prominent Apache leader Mangas Coloradas was killed.
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A.
Fort Canby
Fort Canby was a former U.S. Army coastal defense fortification located near the mouth of the Columbia River in Washington State.
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B.
Fort Yates
Fort Yates is a small community in North Dakota that serves as the administrative and cultural center of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
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C.
Fort Kearny
Fort Kearny was a 19th-century U.S. Army outpost in Nebraska that served as a key way station and protection point for pioneers traveling west along the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.
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D.
Fort Carson
Fort Carson is a major U.S. Army installation near Colorado Springs, Colorado, known for hosting key space, infantry, and combat support units.
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E.
Fort Stockton
Fort Stockton is a small historic city in Pecos County, West Texas, known for its frontier military fort, desert landscape, and role as a regional service and transportation hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apache leader
ⓘ
U.S. Army fort ⓘ military conflict ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Apache people
ⓘ
Mangas Coloradas ⓘ |
| conflict |
United States–Apache conflicts
ⓘ
linked to:
Indian Wars in the Southwest
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfDeath |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| diedAt | Fort McLane, New Mexico Territory ⓘ |
| hasOccupant | U.S. soldiers ⓘ |
| historicalRole | base for operations against Apache groups ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
American Southwest
ⓘ
linked to:
southwestern United States
New Mexico Territory ⓘ southwestern New Mexico Territory ⓘ |
| location |
American Southwest
ⓘ
linked to:
southwestern United States
|
| namedAfter | McLane (namesake unclear) ⓘ |
| notableEvent | killing of Mangas Coloradas ⓘ |
| notableFor | site where Mangas Coloradas was killed ⓘ |
| operatedBy | United States Army ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. frontier fort system ⓘ |
| status | former military post ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| usedDuring | Apache Wars ⓘ |
| usedFor |
frontier defense
ⓘ
military operations ⓘ |
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 McLane, New Mexico Territory Description of subject: Fort McLane, New Mexico Territory was a 19th-century U.S. military post in the American Southwest, historically noted as the site where the prominent Apache leader Mangas Coloradas was killed.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Fort McLane, New Mexico Territory