Siege of Sveaborg (1808)
E410278
The Siege of Sveaborg (1808) was a pivotal engagement of the Finnish War in which Russian forces blockaded and compelled the surrender of the major Swedish fortress of Sveaborg (Suomenlinna) off Helsinki, hastening Russia’s conquest of Finland.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Siege of Suomenlinna | 1 |
| Siege of Sveaborg (1808) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4071529 — 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 Sveaborg (1808) Context triple: [Suomenlinna, significantEvent, Siege of Sveaborg (1808)]
-
A.
Siege of Narva (1704)
The Siege of Narva (1704) was a major Russian victory over Sweden during the Great Northern War, resulting in the capture of the strategic Baltic fortress city of Narva.
-
B.
Bombardment of Sveaborg
The Bombardment of Sveaborg was an 1855 Anglo-French naval attack on the Russian fortress of Sveaborg (near Helsinki) during the Crimean War.
-
C.
Siege of Riga (1700)
The Siege of Riga (1700) was an early and pivotal Russian-led attempt to capture the Swedish-held Baltic port city of Riga during the opening phase of the Great Northern War.
-
D.
Battle of Narva (1700)
The Battle of Narva (1700) was an early Great Northern War clash in which outnumbered Swedish forces under Charles XII decisively defeated the Russian army near the city of Narva.
-
E.
Siege of Danzig (1807)
The Siege of Danzig (1807) was a key Napoleonic campaign in which French-led forces captured the strategically vital Baltic port city of Danzig from Prussian and Russian defenders.
- 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 Sveaborg (1808) Target entity description: The Siege of Sveaborg (1808) was a pivotal engagement of the Finnish War in which Russian forces blockaded and compelled the surrender of the major Swedish fortress of Sveaborg (Suomenlinna) off Helsinki, hastening Russia’s conquest of Finland.
-
A.
Siege of Narva (1704)
The Siege of Narva (1704) was a major Russian victory over Sweden during the Great Northern War, resulting in the capture of the strategic Baltic fortress city of Narva.
-
B.
Bombardment of Sveaborg
The Bombardment of Sveaborg was an 1855 Anglo-French naval attack on the Russian fortress of Sveaborg (near Helsinki) during the Crimean War.
-
C.
Siege of Riga (1700)
The Siege of Riga (1700) was an early and pivotal Russian-led attempt to capture the Swedish-held Baltic port city of Riga during the opening phase of the Great Northern War.
-
D.
Battle of Narva (1700)
The Battle of Narva (1700) was an early Great Northern War clash in which outnumbered Swedish forces under Charles XII decisively defeated the Russian army near the city of Narva.
-
E.
Siege of Danzig (1807)
The Siege of Danzig (1807) was a key Napoleonic campaign in which French-led forces captured the strategically vital Baltic port city of Danzig from Prussian and Russian defenders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military engagement
ⓘ
siege ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Siege of Sveaborg (1808)
ⓘ
surface form:
Siege of Suomenlinna
|
| associatedWith | controversy over Cronstedt’s surrender ⓘ |
| belligerent |
Kingdom of Sweden
ⓘ
Russian Empire ⓘ |
| besiegingForce | Russian forces ⓘ |
| category |
Conflicts in 1808
ⓘ
Sieges involving Russia ⓘ Sieges involving Sweden ⓘ |
| chronologicalOrderInWar | early campaign of the Finnish War ⓘ |
| commander |
Carl Olof Cronstedt
ⓘ
Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden ⓘ Jan Peter van Suchtelen ⓘ |
| conflict | Finnish War ⓘ |
| consequence |
demoralization of Swedish forces in Finland
ⓘ
loss of Sweden’s main naval base in Finland ⓘ strengthening of Russian strategic position in the Baltic ⓘ |
| countryAtTime | Kingdom of Sweden ⓘ |
| endDate | 1808-05-03 ⓘ |
| followedBy | continued Russian advance in Finland ⓘ |
| fortressNameAtTime |
Russian coastal fortifications at Sveaborg
ⓘ
surface form:
Sveaborg
|
| fortressType | sea fortress ⓘ |
| garrisonSide | Swedish garrison ⓘ |
| garrisonStrengthApprox | about 6,000–7,000 Swedish troops ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Finland ⓘ |
| location |
Gulf of Finland
ⓘ
Suomenlinna ONNED1 ⓘ Suomenlinna sea fortress ⓘ
surface form:
Sveaborg fortress
off Helsinki ⓘ |
| modernFortressName | Suomenlinna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navalAssetsCaptured | large part of the Swedish archipelago fleet in Finland ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Helsinki ⓘ |
| partOf |
Finnish War
ⓘ
Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Finnish War
ⓘ
surface form:
Russian invasion of Finland (1808)
|
| relatedTo | Treaty of Fredrikshamn ⓘ |
| result |
Russian victory
ⓘ
surrender of Swedish fortress of Sveaborg ⓘ |
| significance |
hastened Russia’s conquest of Finland
ⓘ
pivotal engagement of the Finnish War ⓘ |
| startDate | 1808-03-18 ⓘ |
| tacticUsed |
blockade
ⓘ
bombardment ⓘ |
| theatre |
Baltic theatre of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
ⓘ
surface form:
Baltic theatre of the Napoleonic Wars
|
| year | 1808 ⓘ |
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: Siege of Sveaborg (1808) Description of subject: The Siege of Sveaborg (1808) was a pivotal engagement of the Finnish War in which Russian forces blockaded and compelled the surrender of the major Swedish fortress of Sveaborg (Suomenlinna) off Helsinki, hastening Russia’s conquest of Finland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Suomenlinna
this entity surface form:
Siege of Suomenlinna