Anping Fort
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Anping Fort is a historic Dutch-built fortress in Tainan, Taiwan, that served as a key colonial stronghold and trading post in the 17th century.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anping Fort canonical | 2 |
| Anping Old Fort | 1 |
| Anping Small Fort | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11867643 — 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: Anping Fort Context triple: [Anping Old Street, near, Anping Fort]
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A.
Weiyuan Fort
Weiyuan Fort is a historic coastal defense fortification in Humen, China, best known for its role in guarding the Pearl River estuary during the Opium Wars.
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B.
Hulishan Fortress
Hulishan Fortress is a historic coastal defense fort in Xiamen, China, known for its well-preserved Qing dynasty military architecture and massive coastal artillery.
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C.
Gungnae Fortress
Gungnae Fortress was the fortified mountain city that served as an early political and military center of the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo.
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D.
Xiyu Eastern Fort
Xiyu Eastern Fort is a historic coastal defense fortress on Xiyu Island in Taiwan’s Penghu archipelago, built to protect the area from maritime threats.
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E.
Wanping Fortress
Wanping Fortress is a historic Ming-era walled stronghold in Beijing best known today as the site of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and as a memorial location for the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- 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: Anping Fort Target entity description: Anping Fort is a historic Dutch-built fortress in Tainan, Taiwan, that served as a key colonial stronghold and trading post in the 17th century.
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A.
Weiyuan Fort
Weiyuan Fort is a historic coastal defense fortification in Humen, China, best known for its role in guarding the Pearl River estuary during the Opium Wars.
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B.
Hulishan Fortress
Hulishan Fortress is a historic coastal defense fort in Xiamen, China, known for its well-preserved Qing dynasty military architecture and massive coastal artillery.
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C.
Gungnae Fortress
Gungnae Fortress was the fortified mountain city that served as an early political and military center of the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo.
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D.
Xiyu Eastern Fort
Xiyu Eastern Fort is a historic coastal defense fortress on Xiyu Island in Taiwan’s Penghu archipelago, built to protect the area from maritime threats.
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E.
Wanping Fortress
Wanping Fortress is a historic Ming-era walled stronghold in Beijing best known today as the site of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and as a memorial location for the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fortress
ⓘ
historic site ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Fort Anping
NERFINISHED
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Fort Zeelandia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Dutch colonial architecture ⓘ |
| builder | Dutch East India Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtDuring | Dutch colonial period in Taiwan ⓘ |
| capturedBy |
Kingdom of Tungning
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Koxinga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| captureYear | 1662 ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1634 ⓘ |
| constructedAs |
military fortress
ⓘ
trading post ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| functionIn17thCentury |
key colonial stronghold
ⓘ
key trading post ⓘ |
| governingBody | Tainan City Government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
bastions
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courtyard ⓘ inner fort walls ⓘ museum ⓘ observation tower ⓘ outer fort walls ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | National historic site of Taiwan ⓘ |
| languageOfOriginalName | Dutch ⓘ |
| laterControlledBy |
Empire of Japan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Qing dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ Republic of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Anping District
NERFINISHED
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Tainan NERFINISHED ⓘ Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material |
brick
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coral stone ⓘ stone ⓘ |
| near |
Anping Old Street
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Anping Tree House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatorAfter1662 | Kingdom of Tungning GENERATED ⓘ |
| originalName | Fort Zeelandia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significantEvent | Siege of Fort Zeelandia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startDate | 1624 ⓘ |
| strategicLocation | near Taijiang Inner Sea ⓘ |
| touristAttractionStatus | major tourist attraction in Tainan ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administration
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defense ⓘ trade ⓘ |
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: Anping Fort Description of subject: Anping Fort is a historic Dutch-built fortress in Tainan, Taiwan, that served as a key colonial stronghold and trading post in the 17th century.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Anping Old Fort
this entity surface form:
Anping Small Fort