Ilbert Bill controversy
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The Ilbert Bill controversy was a major political dispute in British-ruled India in the 1880s over a proposed law allowing Indian judges to try European defendants, which exposed deep racial tensions and galvanized early Indian nationalist sentiment.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Ilbert Bill controversy Context triple: [British policies in India, associatedWith, Ilbert Bill controversy]
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Bascom Affair
The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
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Nechayev affair
The Nechayev affair was a notorious 1869 Russian revolutionary conspiracy and murder scandal involving Sergei Nechayev, which exposed the extremism of radical nihilist politics and inspired later literary and political critiques.
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Citizen Genêt affair
The Citizen Genêt affair was a diplomatic crisis in 1793 in which French envoy Edmond-Charles Genêt tried to recruit American support for France’s war against Britain, challenging U.S. neutrality and straining relations between the two countries.
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Campbell Case controversy
The Campbell Case controversy was a 1924 British political scandal over the prosecution of a communist newspaper editor that undermined public and parliamentary support for Ramsay MacDonald's first Labour government.
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Rowlatt Act
The Rowlatt Act was a 1919 British colonial law in India that extended wartime emergency measures into peacetime, allowing detention without trial and severe restrictions on civil liberties, and it became a major catalyst for nationwide protests and unrest.
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- 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: Ilbert Bill controversy Target entity description: The Ilbert Bill controversy was a major political dispute in British-ruled India in the 1880s over a proposed law allowing Indian judges to try European defendants, which exposed deep racial tensions and galvanized early Indian nationalist sentiment.
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A.
Bascom Affair
The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
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B.
Nechayev affair
The Nechayev affair was a notorious 1869 Russian revolutionary conspiracy and murder scandal involving Sergei Nechayev, which exposed the extremism of radical nihilist politics and inspired later literary and political critiques.
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C.
Citizen Genêt affair
The Citizen Genêt affair was a diplomatic crisis in 1793 in which French envoy Edmond-Charles Genêt tried to recruit American support for France’s war against Britain, challenging U.S. neutrality and straining relations between the two countries.
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D.
Campbell Case controversy
The Campbell Case controversy was a 1924 British political scandal over the prosecution of a communist newspaper editor that undermined public and parliamentary support for Ramsay MacDonald's first Labour government.
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E.
Rowlatt Act
The Rowlatt Act was a 1919 British colonial law in India that extended wartime emergency measures into peacetime, allowing detention without trial and severe restrictions on civil liberties, and it became a major catalyst for nationwide protests and unrest.
- F. None of above. chosen
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