Siege of Boulogne
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The Siege of Boulogne was a 1544 military operation during the Italian War of 1542–1546 in which English forces under Henry VIII captured the French port city of Boulogne.
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| Siege of Boulogne canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16194178 — 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: Siege of Boulogne Context triple: [Siege of Boulogne (1544), hasAlternativeName, Siege of Boulogne]
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Siege of Rouen
The Siege of Rouen was a major 1418–1419 campaign of the Hundred Years' War in which English forces captured the Norman capital, consolidating Henry V’s control over northern France.
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Siege of Château Gaillard
The Siege of Château Gaillard (1203–1204) was a pivotal medieval conflict in which Philip II of France captured King John of England’s formidable Norman fortress, leading to the French conquest of much of Normandy.
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C.
Siege of Maubeuge
The Siege of Maubeuge was a major early World War I German offensive in 1914 in which heavy artillery and siege tactics forced the surrender of the French fortress city of Maubeuge.
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D.
Siege of Bois-le-Duc
The Siege of Bois-le-Duc was a major 1629 Dutch siege during the Eighty Years' War in which the Protestant Dutch forces captured the strongly fortified, predominantly Catholic city of ’s-Hertogenbosch from Spanish control.
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siege of Rouen
The siege of Rouen was a key military engagement during the Revolt of 1173–1174 in which rebel forces unsuccessfully attempted to capture the strategically vital Norman capital from King Henry II of England.
- 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: Siege of Boulogne Target entity description: The Siege of Boulogne was a 1544 military operation during the Italian War of 1542–1546 in which English forces under Henry VIII captured the French port city of Boulogne.
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A.
Siege of Rouen
The Siege of Rouen was a major 1418–1419 campaign of the Hundred Years' War in which English forces captured the Norman capital, consolidating Henry V’s control over northern France.
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B.
Siege of Château Gaillard
The Siege of Château Gaillard (1203–1204) was a pivotal medieval conflict in which Philip II of France captured King John of England’s formidable Norman fortress, leading to the French conquest of much of Normandy.
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C.
Siege of Maubeuge
The Siege of Maubeuge was a major early World War I German offensive in 1914 in which heavy artillery and siege tactics forced the surrender of the French fortress city of Maubeuge.
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D.
Siege of Bois-le-Duc
The Siege of Bois-le-Duc was a major 1629 Dutch siege during the Eighty Years' War in which the Protestant Dutch forces captured the strongly fortified, predominantly Catholic city of ’s-Hertogenbosch from Spanish control.
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E.
siege of Rouen
The siege of Rouen was a key military engagement during the Revolt of 1173–1174 in which rebel forces unsuccessfully attempted to capture the strategically vital Norman capital from King Henry II of England.
- F. None of above. chosen
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