shootout at Blazer’s Mill
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Shootout at Blazer’s Mill was a famous 1878 gun battle during the Lincoln County War in New Mexico, involving Billy the Kid and his Regulators in a violent clash with members of the opposing faction.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16478498 — 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: shootout at Blazer’s Mill Context triple: [Billy the Kid, notableEvent, shootout at Blazer’s Mill]
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Sam Bass shootout of 1878
The Sam Bass shootout of 1878 was a deadly gun battle involving outlaw Sam Bass and lawmen that marked the violent end of Bass’s criminal career.
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B.
shootout at Alfred Park
The shootout at Alfred Park was a famous 1931 armed confrontation in Allahabad where Indian revolutionary Chandrasekhar Azad was cornered by British police and died fighting rather than surrender.
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C.
North Hollywood shootout
The North Hollywood shootout was a 1997 armed confrontation in Los Angeles in which two heavily armed bank robbers engaged in a prolonged gun battle with police, prompting major changes in law enforcement weaponry and tactics.
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D.
gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865)
The gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865) was a famous Old West shootout involving Wild Bill Hickok that became one of the earliest and most legendary examples of the classic face-to-face pistol duel.
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E.
Earp Vendetta Ride
The Earp Vendetta Ride was a series of retaliatory pursuits and killings led by Wyatt Earp and his allies in 1882 Arizona Territory following the ambush of his brother Morgan and wounding of his brother Virgil after the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
- 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: shootout at Blazer’s Mill Target entity description: Shootout at Blazer’s Mill was a famous 1878 gun battle during the Lincoln County War in New Mexico, involving Billy the Kid and his Regulators in a violent clash with members of the opposing faction.
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A.
Sam Bass shootout of 1878
The Sam Bass shootout of 1878 was a deadly gun battle involving outlaw Sam Bass and lawmen that marked the violent end of Bass’s criminal career.
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B.
shootout at Alfred Park
The shootout at Alfred Park was a famous 1931 armed confrontation in Allahabad where Indian revolutionary Chandrasekhar Azad was cornered by British police and died fighting rather than surrender.
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C.
North Hollywood shootout
The North Hollywood shootout was a 1997 armed confrontation in Los Angeles in which two heavily armed bank robbers engaged in a prolonged gun battle with police, prompting major changes in law enforcement weaponry and tactics.
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D.
gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865)
The gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865) was a famous Old West shootout involving Wild Bill Hickok that became one of the earliest and most legendary examples of the classic face-to-face pistol duel.
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E.
Earp Vendetta Ride
The Earp Vendetta Ride was a series of retaliatory pursuits and killings led by Wyatt Earp and his allies in 1882 Arizona Territory following the ambush of his brother Morgan and wounding of his brother Virgil after the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
- F. None of above. chosen
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