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A keep is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word keep, but usually consider it to refer to large towers in castles that were fortified residences, used as a refuge of last resort should the rest of the castle fall to an adversary.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Keep | is a | type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility | 0.90 | text |
| Keep | is a | keep of the Kolossi Castle | 0.90 | text |
| the White Tower | instance of | Important early English and Welsh keeps | 0.80 | text |
| Colchester | instance of | Important early English and Welsh keeps | 0.80 | text |
| and Chepstow were all built in a distinctive Romanesque style | instance of | Important early English and Welsh keeps | 0.80 | text |
| often reusing Roman materials | instance of | Important early English and Welsh keeps | 0.80 | text |
| sites | instance of | Important early English and Welsh keeps | 0.80 | text |
| and were almost certainly intended to impress | instance of | Important early English and Welsh keeps | 0.80 | text |
| generate a political effect amongst local people | instance of | Important early English and Welsh keeps | 0.80 | text |
| that at Château Gaillard were built with political effect in mind | instance of | Even formidable military designs | 0.80 | text |
| Framlingham never had a central keep | instance of | thus castles | 0.80 | text |
| Warkworth | instance of | at locations | 0.80 | text |
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