Klamath River massacres
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The Klamath River massacres were a series of violent attacks by Euro-American settlers and militias against Indigenous peoples along the Klamath River in the mid-19th century, contributing to the broader California genocide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hayfork Massacre | 1 |
| Klamath River massacres canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17192103 — 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.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Klamath River massacres Context triple: [California genocide, hasPart, Klamath River massacres]
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A.
1860 Wiyot Massacre
The 1860 Wiyot Massacre was a brutal attack by white settlers on the Wiyot people during their World Renewal Ceremony on Indian Island near Eureka, California, resulting in the killing of dozens of Native men, women, and children.
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B.
Round Valley massacres
The Round Valley massacres were a series of violent attacks and killings of Indigenous people in Northern California during the mid-19th century, carried out by settlers and state-sponsored militias as part of the broader California genocide.
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C.
Mountain Meadows massacre
The Mountain Meadows massacre was an 1857 mass killing of a wagon train of emigrants by Mormon militia and allied Native Americans in southern Utah, and is considered one of the darkest episodes in the history of the American West.
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D.
Marais des Cygnes massacre
The Marais des Cygnes massacre was an 1858 attack in Kansas Territory in which pro-slavery militants executed a group of free-state men, becoming one of the most notorious episodes of violence in the Bleeding Kansas conflict.
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E.
Bear River Massacre
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.
- 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: Klamath River massacres Target entity description: The Klamath River massacres were a series of violent attacks by Euro-American settlers and militias against Indigenous peoples along the Klamath River in the mid-19th century, contributing to the broader California genocide.
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A.
1860 Wiyot Massacre
The 1860 Wiyot Massacre was a brutal attack by white settlers on the Wiyot people during their World Renewal Ceremony on Indian Island near Eureka, California, resulting in the killing of dozens of Native men, women, and children.
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B.
Round Valley massacres
The Round Valley massacres were a series of violent attacks and killings of Indigenous people in Northern California during the mid-19th century, carried out by settlers and state-sponsored militias as part of the broader California genocide.
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C.
Mountain Meadows massacre
The Mountain Meadows massacre was an 1857 mass killing of a wagon train of emigrants by Mormon militia and allied Native Americans in southern Utah, and is considered one of the darkest episodes in the history of the American West.
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D.
Marais des Cygnes massacre
The Marais des Cygnes massacre was an 1858 attack in Kansas Territory in which pro-slavery militants executed a group of free-state men, becoming one of the most notorious episodes of violence in the Bleeding Kansas conflict.
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E.
Bear River Massacre
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hayfork Massacre