Battle of Calderón Bridge
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The Battle of Calderón Bridge was a major 1811 royalist victory over insurgent forces during the Mexican War of Independence that marked a turning point by halting the early rebel advance.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Battle of Calderón Bridge canonical | 4 |
| Batalla del Puente de Calderón | 1 |
| Battle of Guanajuato | 1 |
| Calderón Bridge | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T388168 — 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 Calderón Bridge Context triple: [Mexican War of Independence, significantBattle, Battle of Calderón Bridge]
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Battle of Sahagún
The Battle of Sahagún was a cavalry action during the Peninsular War (1808) in which British light dragoons decisively defeated French cavalry near the town of Sahagún in Spain.
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Battle of Monte de las Cruces
The Battle of Monte de las Cruces was a major early victory for Miguel Hidalgo’s insurgent forces over Spanish royalists in 1810, marking a pivotal moment in the Mexican War of Independence.
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Battle of Otumba
The Battle of Otumba was a pivotal 1520 engagement in central Mexico where Hernán Cortés’s outnumbered Spanish and allied Indigenous forces defeated a large Aztec army, helping to secure the eventual fall of the Aztec Empire.
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D.
Battle of Santa Clara
The Battle of Santa Clara was a decisive late-1958 engagement in the Cuban Revolution, led in part by Che Guevara, whose victory helped precipitate the collapse of Fulgencio Batista’s regime.
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E.
Battle of Guadalajara
The Battle of Guadalajara was a key 1937 Spanish Civil War engagement in which Republican forces, aided by international volunteers, repelled an Italian-led offensive supporting the Nationalists, marking a significant setback for fascist intervention.
- 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 Calderón Bridge Target entity description: The Battle of Calderón Bridge was a major 1811 royalist victory over insurgent forces during the Mexican War of Independence that marked a turning point by halting the early rebel advance.
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A.
Battle of Sahagún
The Battle of Sahagún was a cavalry action during the Peninsular War (1808) in which British light dragoons decisively defeated French cavalry near the town of Sahagún in Spain.
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B.
Battle of Monte de las Cruces
The Battle of Monte de las Cruces was a major early victory for Miguel Hidalgo’s insurgent forces over Spanish royalists in 1810, marking a pivotal moment in the Mexican War of Independence.
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C.
Battle of Otumba
The Battle of Otumba was a pivotal 1520 engagement in central Mexico where Hernán Cortés’s outnumbered Spanish and allied Indigenous forces defeated a large Aztec army, helping to secure the eventual fall of the Aztec Empire.
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D.
Battle of Santa Clara
The Battle of Santa Clara was a decisive late-1958 engagement in the Cuban Revolution, led in part by Che Guevara, whose victory helped precipitate the collapse of Fulgencio Batista’s regime.
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E.
Battle of Guadalajara
The Battle of Guadalajara was a key 1937 Spanish Civil War engagement in which Republican forces, aided by international volunteers, repelled an Italian-led offensive supporting the Nationalists, marking a significant setback for fascist intervention.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
battle
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military engagement ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Battle of Calderón Bridge
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surface form:
Batalla del Puente de Calderón
|
| belligerent |
insurgent forces of New Spain
ⓘ
royalist forces of New Spain ⓘ |
| causeOf |
capture and execution of Ignacio Allende
ⓘ
capture and execution of Miguel Hidalgo ⓘ |
| combatant |
Mexican insurgents
ⓘ
Spanish royalists ⓘ |
| commander |
Félix María Calleja
ⓘ
Ignacio Allende ⓘ José de la Cruz ⓘ Juan Aldama ⓘ Mariano Abasolo ⓘ Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | monuments near the Calderón Bridge site ⓘ |
| conflict | Mexican War of Independence ⓘ |
| country | Viceroyalty of New Spain ⓘ |
| date | 17 January 1811 ⓘ |
| describedAs | turning point that halted the early rebel advance ⓘ |
| effect |
collapse of the first major insurgent campaign
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flight of Miguel Hidalgo toward the northern frontier ⓘ loss of insurgent artillery and supplies ⓘ |
| followedBy |
capture of Guadalajara by royalist forces
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retreat of insurgent leadership toward the north ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
demonstrated superiority of disciplined royalist troops over irregular insurgent masses
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ended the first phase of the Mexican independence movement ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | state of Jalisco, Mexico ⓘ |
| location |
Battle of Calderón Bridge
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Calderón Bridge
Intendancy of Guadalajara ⓘ Viceroyalty of New Spain ⓘ
surface form:
New Spain
near Guadalajara ⓘ |
| notableFeature | use of royalist artillery and a munitions explosion in the insurgent camp ⓘ |
| partOf | Mexican War of Independence ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Battle of Monte de las Cruces
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Capture of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas ⓘ
surface form:
Capture of Guanajuato
|
| result | royalist victory ⓘ |
| strategicObjective |
defend approach to Guadalajara
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stop insurgent march toward Mexico City ⓘ |
| strengthInsurgent | tens of thousands of poorly armed insurgents ⓘ |
| strengthRoyalist | approximately 6,000–10,000 men ⓘ |
| theater | Western theater of the Mexican War of Independence ⓘ |
| turningPointIn | Mexican War of Independence ⓘ |
| year | 1811 ⓘ |
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Input
Subject: Battle of Calderón Bridge Description of subject: The Battle of Calderón Bridge was a major 1811 royalist victory over insurgent forces during the Mexican War of Independence that marked a turning point by halting the early rebel advance.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Battle of Guanajuato
this entity surface form:
Calderón Bridge
this entity surface form:
Batalla del Puente de Calderón
subject surface form:
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla