Cornwallis’s Retreat
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Cornwallis’s Retreat was a celebrated 18th-century naval maneuver in which British Admiral William Cornwallis skillfully withdrew a smaller squadron from a superior French fleet, preserving his forces and enhancing his reputation.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12567979 — 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: Cornwallis’s Retreat Context triple: [William Cornwallis, notableFor, Cornwallis’s Retreat]
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Siege of Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown was the decisive 1781 American Revolutionary War battle in which combined American and French forces forced the surrender of a major British army, effectively securing American independence.
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B.
Battle of Camden
The Battle of Camden was a major 1780 British victory in South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War that severely weakened American forces in the South under General Horatio Gates.
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Dorchester Heights
Dorchester Heights is a historic site in South Boston where Continental Army fortifications in 1776 forced the British evacuation during the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Bermuda Hundred Campaign
The Bermuda Hundred Campaign was a series of American Civil War operations in May 1864 in which Union forces attempted, but ultimately failed, to advance on Richmond and Petersburg via the Bermuda Hundred peninsula in Virginia.
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E.
New York and New England campaign of 1781
The New York and New England campaign of 1781 was a late–Revolutionary War series of British and American military operations in the northeastern colonies aimed at raiding coastal towns, disrupting supply lines, and diverting forces from the main theaters of conflict.
- 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: Cornwallis’s Retreat Target entity description: Cornwallis’s Retreat was a celebrated 18th-century naval maneuver in which British Admiral William Cornwallis skillfully withdrew a smaller squadron from a superior French fleet, preserving his forces and enhancing his reputation.
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A.
Siege of Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown was the decisive 1781 American Revolutionary War battle in which combined American and French forces forced the surrender of a major British army, effectively securing American independence.
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B.
Battle of Camden
The Battle of Camden was a major 1780 British victory in South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War that severely weakened American forces in the South under General Horatio Gates.
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C.
Dorchester Heights
Dorchester Heights is a historic site in South Boston where Continental Army fortifications in 1776 forced the British evacuation during the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Bermuda Hundred Campaign
The Bermuda Hundred Campaign was a series of American Civil War operations in May 1864 in which Union forces attempted, but ultimately failed, to advance on Richmond and Petersburg via the Bermuda Hundred peninsula in Virginia.
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E.
New York and New England campaign of 1781
The New York and New England campaign of 1781 was a late–Revolutionary War series of British and American military operations in the northeastern colonies aimed at raiding coastal towns, disrupting supply lines, and diverting forces from the main theaters of conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William Cornwallis