The War of the Running Dogs
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The War of the Running Dogs is a historical non-fiction book by Noel Barber that chronicles the Malayan Emergency and Britain’s counterinsurgency campaign against communist guerrillas in the mid-20th century.
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| The War of the Running Dogs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19233100 — 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: The War of the Running Dogs Context triple: [Noel Barber, notableWork, The War of the Running Dogs]
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A.
The Dogs of War
The Dogs of War is a 1980 political war film based on Frederick Forsyth’s novel, following mercenaries hired to overthrow a fictional African dictator.
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B.
Guerra del Asiento
Guerra del Asiento es el nombre en español de la Guerra del Asiento o Guerra de la Oreja de Jenkins, un conflicto del siglo XVIII entre Gran Bretaña y España principalmente por disputas comerciales y coloniales en el Caribe y América.
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C.
Truceless War
The Truceless War was a brutal conflict between Carthage and its mutinous mercenary forces following the First Punic War, marked by extreme cruelty and the near-collapse of Carthaginian power.
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D.
The Peace War
The Peace War is a science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge that explores a future dominated by a totalitarian regime wielding "bobble" technology capable of encapsulating objects and people in impenetrable stasis fields.
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E.
War of Wear and Tear
War of Wear and Tear is an alternative name for a war of attrition, a prolonged conflict in which each side aims to gradually exhaust the enemy’s personnel, resources, and morale rather than achieve swift, decisive victories.
- 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: The War of the Running Dogs Target entity description: The War of the Running Dogs is a historical non-fiction book by Noel Barber that chronicles the Malayan Emergency and Britain’s counterinsurgency campaign against communist guerrillas in the mid-20th century.
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A.
The Dogs of War
The Dogs of War is a 1980 political war film based on Frederick Forsyth’s novel, following mercenaries hired to overthrow a fictional African dictator.
-
B.
Guerra del Asiento
Guerra del Asiento es el nombre en español de la Guerra del Asiento o Guerra de la Oreja de Jenkins, un conflicto del siglo XVIII entre Gran Bretaña y España principalmente por disputas comerciales y coloniales en el Caribe y América.
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C.
Truceless War
The Truceless War was a brutal conflict between Carthage and its mutinous mercenary forces following the First Punic War, marked by extreme cruelty and the near-collapse of Carthaginian power.
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D.
The Peace War
The Peace War is a science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge that explores a future dominated by a totalitarian regime wielding "bobble" technology capable of encapsulating objects and people in impenetrable stasis fields.
-
E.
War of Wear and Tear
War of Wear and Tear is an alternative name for a war of attrition, a prolonged conflict in which each side aims to gradually exhaust the enemy’s personnel, resources, and morale rather than achieve swift, decisive victories.
- F. None of above. chosen
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