Battle of Kirina
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The Battle of Kirina was a 13th-century West African conflict in which Sundiata Keita defeated the Sosso ruler Sumanguru Kanté, leading to the rise of the Mali Empire.
All labels observed (1)
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| Battle of Kirina canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14057945 — 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 Kirina Context triple: [Sosso state, notableBattle, Battle of Kirina]
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Battle of Konna
The Battle of Konna was a key 2013 clash in central Mali between Islamist militants and Malian–French forces that marked an early turning point in France’s Operation Serval intervention.
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Battle of Kambula
The Battle of Kambula was a decisive 1879 engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War in which British forces successfully repelled a major Zulu attack, helping to turn the tide of the conflict in Britain’s favor.
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Battle of Kagul
The Battle of Kagul was a major 1770 engagement of the Russo-Turkish War in which Russian forces under Pyotr Rumyantsev decisively defeated a much larger Ottoman army, securing Russian dominance in the region.
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Battle of Badme
The Battle of Badme was a pivotal and fiercely contested engagement between Eritrean and Ethiopian forces that helped trigger and define the course of the Eritrean–Ethiopian War in the late 1990s.
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Battle of Bamut
The Battle of Bamut was a prolonged and fiercely contested engagement during the First Chechen War, in which Russian forces struggled for months to capture the heavily fortified Chechen-held village of Bamut.
- 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 Kirina Target entity description: The Battle of Kirina was a 13th-century West African conflict in which Sundiata Keita defeated the Sosso ruler Sumanguru Kanté, leading to the rise of the Mali Empire.
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A.
Battle of Konna
The Battle of Konna was a key 2013 clash in central Mali between Islamist militants and Malian–French forces that marked an early turning point in France’s Operation Serval intervention.
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B.
Battle of Kambula
The Battle of Kambula was a decisive 1879 engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War in which British forces successfully repelled a major Zulu attack, helping to turn the tide of the conflict in Britain’s favor.
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C.
Battle of Kagul
The Battle of Kagul was a major 1770 engagement of the Russo-Turkish War in which Russian forces under Pyotr Rumyantsev decisively defeated a much larger Ottoman army, securing Russian dominance in the region.
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D.
Battle of Badme
The Battle of Badme was a pivotal and fiercely contested engagement between Eritrean and Ethiopian forces that helped trigger and define the course of the Eritrean–Ethiopian War in the late 1990s.
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E.
Battle of Bamut
The Battle of Bamut was a prolonged and fiercely contested engagement during the First Chechen War, in which Russian forces struggled for months to capture the heavily fortified Chechen-held village of Bamut.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.