Piazza Fontana bombing
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The Piazza Fontana bombing was a deadly 1969 neo-fascist terrorist attack in Milan that killed 17 people and is widely seen as the event that ushered in Italy’s violent “Years of Lead.”
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| Piazza Fontana bombing canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17417730 — 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: Piazza Fontana bombing Context triple: [Years of Lead in Italy, notableEvent, Piazza Fontana bombing]
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A.
Marzabotto massacre
The Marzabotto massacre was a World War II atrocity in which Nazi German troops systematically killed hundreds of Italian civilians near Bologna in 1944, making it one of the worst massacres in Western Europe during the war.
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B.
Capaci bombing
The Capaci bombing was a 1992 Mafia terrorist attack in Sicily that assassinated anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife, and members of his police escort, marking a pivotal moment in Italy’s fight against organized crime.
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C.
Sant’Anna di Stazzema massacre
The Sant’Anna di Stazzema massacre was a World War II atrocity in which Nazi German troops killed hundreds of Italian civilians in a small Tuscan village in August 1944.
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D.
Fosse Ardeatine massacre
The Fosse Ardeatine massacre was a World War II Nazi war crime in Rome in March 1944, in which German occupation forces executed 335 Italian civilians and political prisoners in reprisal for a partisan attack.
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E.
assassination of Giacomo Matteotti
The assassination of Giacomo Matteotti was a pivotal political murder in 1924 Fascist Italy, in which the socialist deputy was killed by Fascist squadristi, triggering a major crisis for Benito Mussolini’s regime.
- 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: Piazza Fontana bombing Target entity description: The Piazza Fontana bombing was a deadly 1969 neo-fascist terrorist attack in Milan that killed 17 people and is widely seen as the event that ushered in Italy’s violent “Years of Lead.”
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A.
Marzabotto massacre
The Marzabotto massacre was a World War II atrocity in which Nazi German troops systematically killed hundreds of Italian civilians near Bologna in 1944, making it one of the worst massacres in Western Europe during the war.
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B.
Capaci bombing
The Capaci bombing was a 1992 Mafia terrorist attack in Sicily that assassinated anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife, and members of his police escort, marking a pivotal moment in Italy’s fight against organized crime.
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C.
Sant’Anna di Stazzema massacre
The Sant’Anna di Stazzema massacre was a World War II atrocity in which Nazi German troops killed hundreds of Italian civilians in a small Tuscan village in August 1944.
-
D.
Fosse Ardeatine massacre
The Fosse Ardeatine massacre was a World War II Nazi war crime in Rome in March 1944, in which German occupation forces executed 335 Italian civilians and political prisoners in reprisal for a partisan attack.
-
E.
assassination of Giacomo Matteotti
The assassination of Giacomo Matteotti was a pivotal political murder in 1924 Fascist Italy, in which the socialist deputy was killed by Fascist squadristi, triggering a major crisis for Benito Mussolini’s regime.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.