Bear River Massacre
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The Bear River Massacre was an 1863 U.S. Army attack in present-day Idaho in which hundreds of Northwestern Shoshone people were killed, making it one of the deadliest massacres of Native Americans in U.S. history.
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| Bear River Massacre canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14969127 — 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: Bear River Massacre Context triple: [Patrick E. Connor, notableFor, Bear River Massacre]
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Fort Robinson massacre
The Fort Robinson massacre was a violent 1879 U.S. Army attack and subsequent deaths of Northern Cheyenne people imprisoned at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, during their attempt to escape confinement and return to their homeland.
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Indian Creek massacre
The Indian Creek massacre was an 1832 attack during the Black Hawk War in which a group of Potawatomi and Sauk warriors killed and captured settlers near present-day Earlville, Illinois.
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Pottawatomie massacre
The Pottawatomie massacre was an 1856 episode of anti-slavery violence in Kansas in which abolitionist John Brown and his followers killed five pro-slavery settlers, escalating tensions that helped lead to the American Civil War.
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D.
Sand Creek Massacre
The Sand Creek Massacre was an 1864 attack in which Colorado U.S. volunteer cavalry brutally killed and mutilated a large number of Cheyenne and Arapaho people, many of them women and children, in one of the most infamous atrocities against Native Americans in U.S. history.
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E.
Bad Axe Massacre
The Bad Axe Massacre was the brutal 1832 final battle of the Black Hawk War, in which U.S. forces and militia slaughtered many retreating Sauk and Fox people along the Mississippi River in present-day Wisconsin.
- 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: Bear River Massacre Target entity description: The Bear River Massacre was an 1863 U.S. Army attack in present-day Idaho in which hundreds of Northwestern Shoshone people were killed, making it one of the deadliest massacres of Native Americans in U.S. history.
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A.
Fort Robinson massacre
The Fort Robinson massacre was a violent 1879 U.S. Army attack and subsequent deaths of Northern Cheyenne people imprisoned at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, during their attempt to escape confinement and return to their homeland.
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B.
Indian Creek massacre
The Indian Creek massacre was an 1832 attack during the Black Hawk War in which a group of Potawatomi and Sauk warriors killed and captured settlers near present-day Earlville, Illinois.
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C.
Pottawatomie massacre
The Pottawatomie massacre was an 1856 episode of anti-slavery violence in Kansas in which abolitionist John Brown and his followers killed five pro-slavery settlers, escalating tensions that helped lead to the American Civil War.
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D.
Sand Creek Massacre
The Sand Creek Massacre was an 1864 attack in which Colorado U.S. volunteer cavalry brutally killed and mutilated a large number of Cheyenne and Arapaho people, many of them women and children, in one of the most infamous atrocities against Native Americans in U.S. history.
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E.
Bad Axe Massacre
The Bad Axe Massacre was the brutal 1832 final battle of the Black Hawk War, in which U.S. forces and militia slaughtered many retreating Sauk and Fox people along the Mississippi River in present-day Wisconsin.
- F. None of above. chosen
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