Fort Defiance
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Fort Defiance was a late 18th-century frontier military fortification built by General Anthony Wayne at the confluence of the Maumee and Auglaize rivers in northwestern Ohio, which played a key role in the Northwest Indian War.
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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12292117 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Fort Defiance Context triple: [Defiance County, Ohio, namedAfter, Fort Defiance]
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Fort Defiance (historic site)
Fort Defiance is a preserved late-18th-century frontier plantation home and historic site associated with Revolutionary War officer General William Lenoir in western North Carolina.
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Fort Defiance, Arizona
Fort Defiance, Arizona is a small community on the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona, historically centered around a 19th-century U.S. military fort and now serving as a regional hub for tribal government and services.
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Fort Caspar
Fort Caspar is a historic 19th-century U.S. Army post and reconstructed frontier fort located near present-day Casper, Wyoming, now preserved as a museum and heritage site.
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Fort Sherman
Fort Sherman was a former United States Army military installation on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal, historically used for jungle warfare training and canal defense.
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Fort Sumner
Fort Sumner is a small village in eastern New Mexico best known for its historic military fort and as the place where outlaw Billy the Kid was killed and buried.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fort Defiance Target entity description: Fort Defiance was a late 18th-century frontier military fortification built by General Anthony Wayne at the confluence of the Maumee and Auglaize rivers in northwestern Ohio, which played a key role in the Northwest Indian War.
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A.
Fort Defiance (historic site)
Fort Defiance is a preserved late-18th-century frontier plantation home and historic site associated with Revolutionary War officer General William Lenoir in western North Carolina.
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B.
Fort Defiance, Arizona
Fort Defiance, Arizona is a small community on the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona, historically centered around a 19th-century U.S. military fort and now serving as a regional hub for tribal government and services.
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C.
Fort Caspar
Fort Caspar is a historic 19th-century U.S. Army post and reconstructed frontier fort located near present-day Casper, Wyoming, now preserved as a museum and heritage site.
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Fort Sherman
Fort Sherman was a former United States Army military installation on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal, historically used for jungle warfare training and canal defense.
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E.
Fort Sumner
Fort Sumner is a small village in eastern New Mexico best known for its historic military fort and as the place where outlaw Billy the Kid was killed and buried.
- F. None of above. chosen
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