Brest Fortress
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Brest Fortress is a historic 19th-century Russian fortress in Brest, Belarus, renowned for its fierce Soviet resistance during the early days of the German invasion in World War II.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brest Fortress canonical | 7 |
| Brest Fortress memorial complex | 1 |
| museum of the defense of Brest Fortress | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1854786 — 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: Brest Fortress Context triple: [Brest (Belarus), hasLandmark, Brest Fortress]
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A.
Shlisselburg
Shlisselburg is a historic Russian town near Saint Petersburg, best known for its strategic fortress and former political prison on Lake Ladoga.
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B.
Petrovsk-Port
Petrovsk-Port was a significant port city in the Russian Empire’s Caucasus region, serving as an important commercial and strategic hub on the Caspian Sea.
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C.
Peter and Paul Fortress
Peter and Paul Fortress is a historic citadel and birthplace of St. Petersburg, Russia, known for its baroque cathedral, former political prison, and role as a key military and cultural site.
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D.
Khertvisi Fortress
Khertvisi Fortress is a historic medieval stronghold in southern Georgia, renowned as one of the country’s oldest and most strategically important fortresses.
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E.
Borovitskaya Tower
Borovitskaya Tower is one of the historic defensive and ceremonial towers of the Moscow Kremlin, located near the Kremlin’s southwestern corner by the Moskva 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: Brest Fortress Target entity description: Brest Fortress is a historic 19th-century Russian fortress in Brest, Belarus, renowned for its fierce Soviet resistance during the early days of the German invasion in World War II.
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A.
Shlisselburg
Shlisselburg is a historic Russian town near Saint Petersburg, best known for its strategic fortress and former political prison on Lake Ladoga.
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B.
Petrovsk-Port
Petrovsk-Port was a significant port city in the Russian Empire’s Caucasus region, serving as an important commercial and strategic hub on the Caspian Sea.
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C.
Peter and Paul Fortress
Peter and Paul Fortress is a historic citadel and birthplace of St. Petersburg, Russia, known for its baroque cathedral, former political prison, and role as a key military and cultural site.
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D.
Khertvisi Fortress
Khertvisi Fortress is a historic medieval stronghold in southern Georgia, renowned as one of the country’s oldest and most strategically important fortresses.
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E.
Borovitskaya Tower
Borovitskaya Tower is one of the historic defensive and ceremonial towers of the Moscow Kremlin, located near the Kremlin’s southwestern corner by the Moskva River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Brest Fortress Description of subject: Brest Fortress is a historic 19th-century Russian fortress in Brest, Belarus, renowned for its fierce Soviet resistance during the early days of the German invasion in World War II.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
museum of the defense of Brest Fortress
this entity surface form:
Brest Fortress memorial complex