Fort Wagner
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Fort Wagner was a heavily fortified Confederate stronghold on Morris Island, South Carolina, best known as the site of a famous 1863 Civil War assault by the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12503845 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fort Wagner Context triple: [Assault on Fort Wagner, fortificationAssaulted, Fort Wagner]
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Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter is a coastal fortification in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, best known as the site where the first shots of the American Civil War were fired in April 1861.
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Fort Macon
Fort Macon is a 19th-century coastal defense fortification in North Carolina, built as part of the United States’ Third System of seacoast defenses and now preserved as a state park and historic site.
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C.
Fort Beaufort
Fort Beaufort is a historic town in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, known for its role as a British military outpost during the 19th-century frontier wars.
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D.
Fort Johnson
Fort Johnson is a historic coastal fortification on James Island in South Carolina that played a key role in the early events of the American Civil War.
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E.
Fort Hancock
Fort Hancock is a historic former U.S. Army coastal defense installation located on Sandy Hook in New Jersey, now preserved as part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
- 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: Fort Wagner Target entity description: Fort Wagner was a heavily fortified Confederate stronghold on Morris Island, South Carolina, best known as the site of a famous 1863 Civil War assault by the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.
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A.
Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter is a coastal fortification in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, best known as the site where the first shots of the American Civil War were fired in April 1861.
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B.
Fort Macon
Fort Macon is a 19th-century coastal defense fortification in North Carolina, built as part of the United States’ Third System of seacoast defenses and now preserved as a state park and historic site.
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C.
Fort Beaufort
Fort Beaufort is a historic town in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, known for its role as a British military outpost during the 19th-century frontier wars.
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D.
Fort Johnson
Fort Johnson is a historic coastal fortification on James Island in South Carolina that played a key role in the early events of the American Civil War.
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E.
Fort Hancock
Fort Hancock is a historic former U.S. Army coastal defense installation located on Sandy Hook in New Jersey, now preserved as part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
- F. None of above. chosen
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