Great Terror
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The Great Terror was a brutal period of political repression and mass executions in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin during the late 1930s.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Great Terror canonical | 7 |
| Great Terror in the Soviet Union | 1 |
| Great Terror legacy | 1 |
| Great Terror purges of national elites | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20019807 — 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: Great Terror Context triple: [Law of the Great Terror, timePeriod, Great Terror]
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A.
Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror was a particularly violent and radical phase of the French Revolution marked by mass executions, political purges, and authoritarian rule under the Committee of Public Safety.
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B.
The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror is a 1964 Doctor Who serial set during the French Revolution, featuring the First Doctor and his companions as they become entangled in political intrigue and danger in Paris.
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C.
White Terror of 1794–1795
The White Terror of 1794–1795 was a wave of counter-revolutionary violence in post-Thermidorian France, marked by royalist and anti-Jacobin reprisals against former supporters of the Reign of Terror.
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September Massacres
The September Massacres were a wave of brutal killings of prisoners in Paris in early September 1792, reflecting the radicalization and violent popular justice that marked a turning point in the French Revolution.
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St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre was a 1572 wave of mob and royal-instigated killings in France in which thousands of Huguenots (French Protestants) were slaughtered, marking a brutal turning point in the French Wars of Religion.
- 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: Great Terror Target entity description: The Great Terror was a brutal period of political repression and mass executions in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin during the late 1930s.
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A.
Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror was a particularly violent and radical phase of the French Revolution marked by mass executions, political purges, and authoritarian rule under the Committee of Public Safety.
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B.
The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror is a 1964 Doctor Who serial set during the French Revolution, featuring the First Doctor and his companions as they become entangled in political intrigue and danger in Paris.
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C.
White Terror of 1794–1795
The White Terror of 1794–1795 was a wave of counter-revolutionary violence in post-Thermidorian France, marked by royalist and anti-Jacobin reprisals against former supporters of the Reign of Terror.
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D.
September Massacres
The September Massacres were a wave of brutal killings of prisoners in Paris in early September 1792, reflecting the radicalization and violent popular justice that marked a turning point in the French Revolution.
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E.
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre was a 1572 wave of mob and royal-instigated killings in France in which thousands of Huguenots (French Protestants) were slaughtered, marking a brutal turning point in the French Wars of Religion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Soviet policy toward ethnic and religious minorities
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Great Terror purges of national elites
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