William Delaplace
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William Delaplace was a British Army officer best known as the commander who surrendered Fort Ticonderoga to American forces led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold in May 1775 during the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (1)
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| William Delaplace canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4041741 — 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: William Delaplace Context triple: [Battle of Fort Ticonderoga (1775), opposingCommander, William Delaplace]
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Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie
Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie was a French nobleman and military officer best known as the aristocratic father of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas and grandfather of novelist Alexandre Dumas.
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B.
Étienne-Louis
Étienne-Louis is a French given name most famously borne by the visionary neoclassical architect Étienne-Louis Boullée.
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Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer whose work laid the foundations of celestial mechanics, probability theory, and statistics.
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Pierre Fourier
Pierre Fourier was a 17th-century French Catholic priest and canon regular renowned for his pastoral reforms, educational work, and eventual canonization as a saint.
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E.
Jérôme Lalande
Jérôme Lalande was an 18th-century French astronomer known for his work in celestial mechanics, star catalogues, and popularizing astronomy.
- 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: William Delaplace Target entity description: William Delaplace was a British Army officer best known as the commander who surrendered Fort Ticonderoga to American forces led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold in May 1775 during the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie
Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie was a French nobleman and military officer best known as the aristocratic father of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas and grandfather of novelist Alexandre Dumas.
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B.
Étienne-Louis
Étienne-Louis is a French given name most famously borne by the visionary neoclassical architect Étienne-Louis Boullée.
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C.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer whose work laid the foundations of celestial mechanics, probability theory, and statistics.
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D.
Pierre Fourier
Pierre Fourier was a 17th-century French Catholic priest and canon regular renowned for his pastoral reforms, educational work, and eventual canonization as a saint.
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E.
Jérôme Lalande
Jérôme Lalande was an 18th-century French astronomer known for his work in celestial mechanics, star catalogues, and popularizing astronomy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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person ⓘ |
| capturedBy |
Continental forces
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Green Mountain Boys ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| country | Great Britain ⓘ |
| event |
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga (1775)
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surface form:
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
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| fortCapturedBy | American forces ⓘ |
| garrisonCommandLocation |
Ticonderoga
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surface form:
Fort Ticonderoga
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| historicalEra | 18th century ⓘ |
| militaryAllegiance |
George III of the United Kingdom
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surface form:
King George III of Great Britain
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| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| notableFor | surrender of Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775 ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commander of the British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | commanding officer of the fort at time of capture ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Great Britain ⓘ |
| surrenderDate | May 1775 ⓘ |
| surrenderedPlace |
Ticonderoga
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surface form:
Fort Ticonderoga
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| surrenderedTo |
Benedict Arnold
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Ethan Allen ⓘ |
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: William Delaplace Description of subject: William Delaplace was a British Army officer best known as the commander who surrendered Fort Ticonderoga to American forces led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold in May 1775 during the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.