Vietnam War photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc
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The Vietnam War photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc is an iconic 1972 image showing a young girl burned by napalm running naked down a road, which became a powerful symbol of the horrors of war and helped galvanize anti-war sentiment worldwide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vietnam War photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc canonical | 1 |
| Vietnam War photographs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16322835 — 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)
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Target entity: Vietnam War photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc Context triple: [Napalm, basedOn, Vietnam War photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc]
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Vietnam War gallery
The Vietnam War gallery is a dedicated exhibit at the National Museum of the Marine Corps that immersively portrays U.S. Marine Corps operations, experiences, and artifacts from the Vietnam War era.
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B.
Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina
Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina is a commemorative photography book and exhibition honoring photojournalists who lost their lives documenting the wars in Vietnam and neighboring regions.
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C.
My Lai village
My Lai village is a settlement in central Vietnam infamous as the site of the 1968 My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War.
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D.
My Lai massacre
The My Lai massacre was a notorious 1968 atrocity during the Vietnam War in which U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, becoming a symbol of the conflict’s brutality and sparking widespread outrage.
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E.
Crypt of the Unknown from the Vietnam War
The Crypt of the Unknown from the Vietnam War is a burial vault at Arlington National Cemetery that once honored an unidentified American service member from the Vietnam War as part of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
- 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: Vietnam War photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc Target entity description: The Vietnam War photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc is an iconic 1972 image showing a young girl burned by napalm running naked down a road, which became a powerful symbol of the horrors of war and helped galvanize anti-war sentiment worldwide.
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A.
Vietnam War gallery
The Vietnam War gallery is a dedicated exhibit at the National Museum of the Marine Corps that immersively portrays U.S. Marine Corps operations, experiences, and artifacts from the Vietnam War era.
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B.
Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina
Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina is a commemorative photography book and exhibition honoring photojournalists who lost their lives documenting the wars in Vietnam and neighboring regions.
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C.
My Lai village
My Lai village is a settlement in central Vietnam infamous as the site of the 1968 My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War.
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D.
My Lai massacre
The My Lai massacre was a notorious 1968 atrocity during the Vietnam War in which U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, becoming a symbol of the conflict’s brutality and sparking widespread outrage.
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E.
Crypt of the Unknown from the Vietnam War
The Crypt of the Unknown from the Vietnam War is a burial vault at Arlington National Cemetery that once honored an unidentified American service member from the Vietnam War as part of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Vietnam War photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc