Battle of Saumur (1793)
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The Battle of Saumur (1793) was a significant engagement of the War in the Vendée during the French Revolutionary Wars, in which Royalist insurgents temporarily captured the town of Saumur from Republican forces.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Battle of Saumur (1793) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5285665 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Battle of Saumur (1793) Context triple: [François Séverin Marceau, participatedIn, Battle of Saumur (1793)]
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Battle of Rocoux
The Battle of Rocoux was a 1746 engagement near Liège in which French forces under Marshal Saxe defeated an allied army of Britain, the Dutch Republic, and Austria during the War of the Austrian Succession.
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Battle of Valmy
The Battle of Valmy (1792) was a pivotal early clash of the French Revolutionary Wars in which French revolutionary forces halted a Prussian-led invasion, bolstering the survival of the Revolution and the legitimacy of the new French Republic.
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C.
Battle of Mulhouse
The Battle of Mulhouse was an early World War I engagement on the Western Front in August 1914, in which French forces launched an offensive into Alsace against the German Empire as part of the larger Battle of the Frontiers.
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D.
Battle of Noisseville
The Battle of Noisseville was a Franco-Prussian War engagement in late August 1870 near Metz, where German forces repelled French attempts to break out of the besieged city, tightening the encirclement that led to later decisive defeats.
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E.
Battle of Fontaine-Française
The Battle of Fontaine-Française was a 1595 engagement in which King Henry IV of France secured a crucial victory over Spanish forces, helping to consolidate his rule during the late French Wars of Religion.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Saumur (1793) Target entity description: The Battle of Saumur (1793) was a significant engagement of the War in the Vendée during the French Revolutionary Wars, in which Royalist insurgents temporarily captured the town of Saumur from Republican forces.
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A.
Battle of Rocoux
The Battle of Rocoux was a 1746 engagement near Liège in which French forces under Marshal Saxe defeated an allied army of Britain, the Dutch Republic, and Austria during the War of the Austrian Succession.
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B.
Battle of Valmy
The Battle of Valmy (1792) was a pivotal early clash of the French Revolutionary Wars in which French revolutionary forces halted a Prussian-led invasion, bolstering the survival of the Revolution and the legitimacy of the new French Republic.
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C.
Battle of Mulhouse
The Battle of Mulhouse was an early World War I engagement on the Western Front in August 1914, in which French forces launched an offensive into Alsace against the German Empire as part of the larger Battle of the Frontiers.
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D.
Battle of Noisseville
The Battle of Noisseville was a Franco-Prussian War engagement in late August 1870 near Metz, where German forces repelled French attempts to break out of the besieged city, tightening the encirclement that led to later decisive defeats.
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E.
Battle of Fontaine-Française
The Battle of Fontaine-Française was a 1595 engagement in which King Henry IV of France secured a crucial victory over Spanish forces, helping to consolidate his rule during the late French Wars of Religion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
battle
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engagement of the War in the Vendée ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Bataille de Saumur (1793) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | War in the Vendée NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBelligerent |
Catholic and Royal Army
NERFINISHED
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First French Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ French Republican forces ⓘ French Royalists NERFINISHED ⓘ Royalist insurgents ⓘ |
| hasCause | Royalist and Catholic uprising against the French Revolution ⓘ |
| hasCombatantSide |
Republican side
ⓘ
Royalist side ⓘ |
| hasConflictType | civil war battle ⓘ |
| hasCountry | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDate | 1793 ⓘ |
| hasFront | internal French front ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalPeriod | late 18th century ⓘ |
| hasLanguageContext | French ⓘ |
| hasLocation |
France
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maine-et-Loire NERFINISHED ⓘ Pays de la Loire NERFINISHED ⓘ Saumur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryObjective | capture of Saumur from Republican control ⓘ |
| hasOppositionType | counter-revolutionary insurgency vs revolutionary government ⓘ |
| hasOutcome | weakening of Republican control in the region ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalContext | monarchist opposition to republican rule ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Vendée theater of operations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligionContext | Catholic Royalist insurgency ⓘ |
| hasTheater | western France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFollowedBy | continued Royalist advance in the Vendée ⓘ |
| isPartOf | counter-revolutionary uprising in western France ⓘ |
| isSignificantFor |
capture of a key Loire River town
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major Royalist success in the early War in the Vendée ⓘ |
| partOf | French Revolutionary Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| result |
Royalist victory
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temporary Royalist capture of Saumur ⓘ |
| tookPlaceDuring |
French Revolution
NERFINISHED
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Reign of Terror period ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Battle of Saumur (1793) Description of subject: The Battle of Saumur (1793) was a significant engagement of the War in the Vendée during the French Revolutionary Wars, in which Royalist insurgents temporarily captured the town of Saumur from Republican forces.
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