Haiphong massacre
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The Haiphong massacre was a violent 1946 French naval bombardment of the Vietnamese port city of Haiphong that killed thousands of civilians and helped trigger the First Indochina War.
All labels observed (1)
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| Haiphong massacre canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19342448 — 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: Haiphong massacre Context triple: [Haiphong incident, alsoKnownAs, Haiphong massacre]
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Huế Massacre
The Huế Massacre was a mass killing of thousands of civilians and prisoners by communist forces during their occupation of the city of Huế in the 1968 Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.
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B.
Bus massacre of 13 April 1975
The Bus massacre of 13 April 1975 was a deadly attack on a bus carrying Palestinians in Beirut that is widely regarded as the spark that ignited the Lebanese Civil War.
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C.
Huế Vesak shootings
The Huế Vesak shootings were a 1963 incident in which South Vietnamese government forces opened fire on Buddhist demonstrators in Huế, killing and injuring civilians and intensifying the Buddhist crisis against President Ngô Đình Diệm’s regime.
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D.
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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E.
Laha massacre
The Laha massacre was a World War II war crime in which Japanese forces executed hundreds of Australian and Dutch prisoners of war on Ambon Island in 1942.
- 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: Haiphong massacre Target entity description: The Haiphong massacre was a violent 1946 French naval bombardment of the Vietnamese port city of Haiphong that killed thousands of civilians and helped trigger the First Indochina War.
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A.
Huế Massacre
The Huế Massacre was a mass killing of thousands of civilians and prisoners by communist forces during their occupation of the city of Huế in the 1968 Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.
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B.
Bus massacre of 13 April 1975
The Bus massacre of 13 April 1975 was a deadly attack on a bus carrying Palestinians in Beirut that is widely regarded as the spark that ignited the Lebanese Civil War.
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C.
Huế Vesak shootings
The Huế Vesak shootings were a 1963 incident in which South Vietnamese government forces opened fire on Buddhist demonstrators in Huế, killing and injuring civilians and intensifying the Buddhist crisis against President Ngô Đình Diệm’s regime.
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D.
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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E.
Laha massacre
The Laha massacre was a World War II war crime in which Japanese forces executed hundreds of Australian and Dutch prisoners of war on Ambon Island in 1942.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.