Montreal riot on August 8, 1992
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The Montreal riot on August 8, 1992 was a violent disturbance that erupted after a canceled Guns N’ Roses performance during the Use Your Illusion Tour, leading to extensive property damage and injuries.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16500973 — 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: Montreal riot on August 8, 1992 Context triple: [Use Your Illusion Tour, notableEvent, Montreal riot on August 8, 1992]
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Richard Riot of 1955 in Montreal
The Richard Riot of 1955 in Montreal was a major civil disturbance sparked by the suspension of Montreal Canadiens star Maurice Richard, symbolizing deep tensions over French-Canadian identity, language, and perceived injustice in Quebec.
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B.
Easter Riots (Quebec City)
The Easter Riots in Quebec City were 1918 anti-conscription protests that turned violent, highlighting deep French–English tensions in Canada during World War I.
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C.
Réveillon riots
The Réveillon riots were violent pre-Revolution disturbances in Paris in April 1789, sparked by economic hardship and wage tensions, that foreshadowed the broader social unrest of the French Revolution.
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D.
2007 Villiers-le-Bel riots
The 2007 Villiers-le-Bel riots were a series of violent clashes in a Paris suburb sparked by the deaths of two teenagers in a collision with a police car, highlighting deep tensions between youth in disadvantaged neighborhoods and French authorities.
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E.
1991 Crown Heights riot
The 1991 Crown Heights riot was a three-day outbreak of racial and ethnic violence in Brooklyn, New York, primarily involving tensions between the neighborhood’s Black and Hasidic Jewish communities.
- 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: Montreal riot on August 8, 1992 Target entity description: The Montreal riot on August 8, 1992 was a violent disturbance that erupted after a canceled Guns N’ Roses performance during the Use Your Illusion Tour, leading to extensive property damage and injuries.
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A.
Richard Riot of 1955 in Montreal
The Richard Riot of 1955 in Montreal was a major civil disturbance sparked by the suspension of Montreal Canadiens star Maurice Richard, symbolizing deep tensions over French-Canadian identity, language, and perceived injustice in Quebec.
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B.
Easter Riots (Quebec City)
The Easter Riots in Quebec City were 1918 anti-conscription protests that turned violent, highlighting deep French–English tensions in Canada during World War I.
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C.
Réveillon riots
The Réveillon riots were violent pre-Revolution disturbances in Paris in April 1789, sparked by economic hardship and wage tensions, that foreshadowed the broader social unrest of the French Revolution.
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D.
2007 Villiers-le-Bel riots
The 2007 Villiers-le-Bel riots were a series of violent clashes in a Paris suburb sparked by the deaths of two teenagers in a collision with a police car, highlighting deep tensions between youth in disadvantaged neighborhoods and French authorities.
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E.
1991 Crown Heights riot
The 1991 Crown Heights riot was a three-day outbreak of racial and ethnic violence in Brooklyn, New York, primarily involving tensions between the neighborhood’s Black and Hasidic Jewish communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.