Raid on Falmouth, Maine (Casco Bay)
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The Raid on Falmouth, Maine (Casco Bay) was a 1747 French and Native American attack on the English settlement of Falmouth during King George’s War, resulting in significant destruction and loss of life.
All labels observed (1)
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| Raid on Falmouth, Maine (Casco Bay) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14110057 — 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: Raid on Falmouth, Maine (Casco Bay) Context triple: [French and Indian raids on New England during King George's War, hasPart, Raid on Falmouth, Maine (Casco Bay)]
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Raid on Charlestown, New Hampshire (No. 4)
The Raid on Charlestown, New Hampshire (No. 4) was a mid-18th-century French and Native American attack on the frontier settlement of Charlestown during King George’s War, resulting in casualties and captives among the English colonists.
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B.
British raid on New London, Connecticut
The British raid on New London, Connecticut was a devastating 1781 Revolutionary War attack in which British forces under American turncoat Benedict Arnold burned much of the town and captured nearby Fort Griswold.
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C.
Penobscot Expedition
The Penobscot Expedition was a disastrous 1779 American naval and land operation during the Revolutionary War, in which an attempted assault on a British fort in present-day Maine ended in a major defeat and the near-total loss of the American fleet.
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D.
Campobello Island raid
The Campobello Island raid was a minor 1866 incursion by Irish-American Fenians against British territory in New Brunswick, Canada, as part of the broader Fenian Raids aimed at pressuring Britain to withdraw from Ireland.
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E.
Blockade of the Pequot along the Thames River
The Blockade of the Pequot along the Thames River was a key military operation during the Pequot War in which English colonial and Native allied forces sought to cut off and contain the Pequot people by controlling access along the river.
- 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: Raid on Falmouth, Maine (Casco Bay) Target entity description: The Raid on Falmouth, Maine (Casco Bay) was a 1747 French and Native American attack on the English settlement of Falmouth during King George’s War, resulting in significant destruction and loss of life.
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A.
Raid on Charlestown, New Hampshire (No. 4)
The Raid on Charlestown, New Hampshire (No. 4) was a mid-18th-century French and Native American attack on the frontier settlement of Charlestown during King George’s War, resulting in casualties and captives among the English colonists.
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B.
British raid on New London, Connecticut
The British raid on New London, Connecticut was a devastating 1781 Revolutionary War attack in which British forces under American turncoat Benedict Arnold burned much of the town and captured nearby Fort Griswold.
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C.
Penobscot Expedition
The Penobscot Expedition was a disastrous 1779 American naval and land operation during the Revolutionary War, in which an attempted assault on a British fort in present-day Maine ended in a major defeat and the near-total loss of the American fleet.
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D.
Campobello Island raid
The Campobello Island raid was a minor 1866 incursion by Irish-American Fenians against British territory in New Brunswick, Canada, as part of the broader Fenian Raids aimed at pressuring Britain to withdraw from Ireland.
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E.
Blockade of the Pequot along the Thames River
The Blockade of the Pequot along the Thames River was a key military operation during the Pequot War in which English colonial and Native allied forces sought to cut off and contain the Pequot people by controlling access along the river.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
French and Indian raids on New England during King George's War
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Raid on Falmouth, Maine (Casco Bay)
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