Battle of the Saintes
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The Battle of the Saintes was a decisive 1782 naval engagement in the Caribbean during the American Revolutionary War, in which the British fleet under Admiral Rodney defeated the French fleet under the Comte de Grasse, securing British control of the West Indies.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Battle of the Saintes canonical | 12 |
| Battle of Les Saintes | 1 |
| Battle of the Saintes (sometimes distinguished in naming conventions) | 1 |
| Battle of the Saintes (support operations) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3317366 — 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: Battle of the Saintes Context triple: [Atlantic campaign of the American Revolutionary War, hasPart, Battle of the Saintes]
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A.
Battle of Nassau
The Battle of Nassau was a 1776 American Revolutionary War amphibious assault in the Bahamas, notable as one of the first major naval operations of the fledgling United States.
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B.
Battle of San Domingo
The Battle of San Domingo was a major 1806 naval engagement during the Napoleonic Wars in which a British fleet decisively defeated a French squadron in the Caribbean.
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C.
Battle of the Chesapeake
The Battle of the Chesapeake was a pivotal 1781 naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War in which the French fleet blocked British relief forces, directly enabling the American victory at Yorktown.
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D.
Battle of Cape Engaño
The Battle of Cape Engaño was a major naval engagement of the 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II, in which U.S. carrier forces destroyed the last operational Japanese aircraft carriers in a decisive victory.
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E.
Battle of Santiago de Cuba
The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was a decisive 1898 naval engagement of the Spanish–American War in which the U.S. Navy destroyed Spain’s Caribbean squadron off the coast of Cuba, effectively ending Spanish naval power in the Western Hemisphere.
- 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: Battle of the Saintes Target entity description: The Battle of the Saintes was a decisive 1782 naval engagement in the Caribbean during the American Revolutionary War, in which the British fleet under Admiral Rodney defeated the French fleet under the Comte de Grasse, securing British control of the West Indies.
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A.
Battle of Nassau
The Battle of Nassau was a 1776 American Revolutionary War amphibious assault in the Bahamas, notable as one of the first major naval operations of the fledgling United States.
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B.
Battle of San Domingo
The Battle of San Domingo was a major 1806 naval engagement during the Napoleonic Wars in which a British fleet decisively defeated a French squadron in the Caribbean.
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C.
Battle of the Chesapeake
The Battle of the Chesapeake was a pivotal 1781 naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War in which the French fleet blocked British relief forces, directly enabling the American victory at Yorktown.
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D.
Battle of Cape Engaño
The Battle of Cape Engaño was a major naval engagement of the 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II, in which U.S. carrier forces destroyed the last operational Japanese aircraft carriers in a decisive victory.
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E.
Battle of Santiago de Cuba
The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was a decisive 1898 naval engagement of the Spanish–American War in which the U.S. Navy destroyed Spain’s Caribbean squadron off the coast of Cuba, effectively ending Spanish naval power in the Western Hemisphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Battle of the Saintes Description of subject: The Battle of the Saintes was a decisive 1782 naval engagement in the Caribbean during the American Revolutionary War, in which the British fleet under Admiral Rodney defeated the French fleet under the Comte de Grasse, securing British control of the West Indies.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Battle of Les Saintes
subject surface form:
Second Battle of Ushant
this entity surface form:
Battle of the Saintes (sometimes distinguished in naming conventions)
subject surface form:
William Cornwallis
this entity surface form:
Battle of the Saintes (support operations)
subject surface form:
James Saumarez