court-martial of William Calley
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The court-martial of William Calley was a highly publicized U.S. military trial in 1971 in which Army Lieutenant William Calley was convicted for his role in the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| My Lai massacre court-martial | 1 |
| U.S. Army court-martial | 1 |
| court-martial of William Calley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1196973 — 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: court-martial of William Calley Context triple: [My Lai massacre, legalOutcome, court-martial of William Calley]
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My Lai massacre
The My Lai massacre was a notorious 1968 atrocity during the Vietnam War in which U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, becoming a symbol of the conflict’s brutality and sparking widespread outrage.
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Rivonia Trial
The Rivonia Trial was a landmark 1963–1964 South African court case in which Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid leaders were prosecuted and ultimately sentenced to long prison terms for sabotage and related charges, drawing global attention to the struggle against apartheid.
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C.
court-martial of General Charles Lee
The court-martial of General Charles Lee was a Revolutionary War military trial in 1778 that resulted in his suspension from command for misconduct and disobedience following the Battle of Monmouth.
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Trial of the Twenty-One
The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
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Nuremberg trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of landmark military tribunals held after World War II to prosecute leading Nazi officials for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace.
- 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: court-martial of William Calley Target entity description: The court-martial of William Calley was a highly publicized U.S. military trial in 1971 in which Army Lieutenant William Calley was convicted for his role in the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
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A.
My Lai massacre
The My Lai massacre was a notorious 1968 atrocity during the Vietnam War in which U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, becoming a symbol of the conflict’s brutality and sparking widespread outrage.
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B.
Rivonia Trial
The Rivonia Trial was a landmark 1963–1964 South African court case in which Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid leaders were prosecuted and ultimately sentenced to long prison terms for sabotage and related charges, drawing global attention to the struggle against apartheid.
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C.
court-martial of General Charles Lee
The court-martial of General Charles Lee was a Revolutionary War military trial in 1778 that resulted in his suspension from command for misconduct and disobedience following the Battle of Monmouth.
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D.
Trial of the Twenty-One
The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
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E.
Nuremberg trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of landmark military tribunals held after World War II to prosecute leading Nazi officials for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: court-martial of William Calley Description of subject: The court-martial of William Calley was a highly publicized U.S. military trial in 1971 in which Army Lieutenant William Calley was convicted for his role in the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
U.S. Army court-martial
this entity surface form:
My Lai massacre court-martial