Battle of Reval (1790)
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The Battle of Reval (1790) was a naval engagement of the Russo-Swedish War in which a Swedish fleet unsuccessfully attacked a Russian squadron anchored off the port of Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia).
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Battle of Reval (1602) | 1 |
| Battle of Reval (1790) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8357881 — 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 Reval (1790) Context triple: [Reval, associatedWithEvent, Battle of Reval (1790)]
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A.
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.
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B.
Siege of Riga (1709)
The Siege of Riga (1709) was a major Russian military operation during the Great Northern War in which Tsar Peter the Great’s forces captured the Swedish-held city of Riga, significantly weakening Sweden’s control in the Baltic region.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
Battle of Eylau
The Battle of Eylau was a brutal and indecisive 1807 winter clash between Napoleon’s Grande Armée and Russian-Prussian forces, noted for its heavy casualties and harsh conditions during the Napoleonic Wars.
- 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 Reval (1790) Target entity description: The Battle of Reval (1790) was a naval engagement of the Russo-Swedish War in which a Swedish fleet unsuccessfully attacked a Russian squadron anchored off the port of Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia).
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A.
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.
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B.
Siege of Riga (1709)
The Siege of Riga (1709) was a major Russian military operation during the Great Northern War in which Tsar Peter the Great’s forces captured the Swedish-held city of Riga, significantly weakening Sweden’s control in the Baltic region.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
Battle of Eylau
The Battle of Eylau was a brutal and indecisive 1807 winter clash between Napoleon’s Grande Armée and Russian-Prussian forces, noted for its heavy casualties and harsh conditions during the Napoleonic Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military engagement
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naval battle ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Battle of Tallinn (1790) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attacker | Swedish fleet ⓘ |
| belligerent |
Kingdom of Sweden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Russian Empire ⓘ |
| campaign | Swedish 1790 naval campaign in the Baltic Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologyWithinWar | late phase of the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) ⓘ |
| combatant1 | Swedish Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| combatant2 | Imperial Russian Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commanderForRussia | Vasily Chichagov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commanderForSweden | Duke Charles of Södermanland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictSide | Sweden vs. Russia ⓘ |
| countryAtTime | Russian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| date | 13 May 1790 ⓘ |
| defender | Russian squadron ⓘ |
| followedBy | Battle of Vyborg Bay (1790) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicalContext | off the port of Reval ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
1790 in military history
ⓘ
Battles involving Russia ⓘ Battles involving Sweden ⓘ History of Tallinn NERFINISHED ⓘ Naval battles of the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Age of Sail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| involvedMonarch | Gustav III of Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location |
Gulf of Finland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reval NERFINISHED ⓘ Tallinn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navalTechnology | ships of the line and frigates ⓘ |
| navalTheater | Baltic Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature | engagement between a moving Swedish fleet and an anchored Russian line ⓘ |
| outcome | Swedish attack repulsed ⓘ |
| partOf |
Baltic naval campaigns of the Russo-Swedish War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | earlier actions of the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) ⓘ |
| presentDayCityName | Tallinn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentDayCountryName | Republic of Estonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentDayLocation | Estonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryTactic | Swedish line-ahead attack on anchored Russian ships ⓘ |
| result | Russian victory ⓘ |
| RussianForceStatus | anchored squadron ⓘ |
| strategicSignificance | helped secure Russian control in the Gulf of Finland ⓘ |
| SwedishObjective | defeat Russian squadron at Reval ⓘ |
| SwedishOutcome | failed to destroy Russian squadron ⓘ |
| typeOfWarfare | naval warfare ⓘ |
| year | 1790 ⓘ |
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 Reval (1790) Description of subject: The Battle of Reval (1790) was a naval engagement of the Russo-Swedish War in which a Swedish fleet unsuccessfully attacked a Russian squadron anchored off the port of Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia).
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Battle of Reval (1602)