Massacre of Najran Christians
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The Massacre of Najran Christians was a 6th-century persecution and mass killing of the Christian community in Najran, in present-day Saudi Arabia, traditionally attributed to the Jewish Himyarite king Dhu Nuwas.
All labels observed (1)
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| Massacre of Najran Christians canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21590752 — 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: Massacre of Najran Christians Context triple: [Christians of Najran, event, Massacre of Najran Christians]
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A.
Dunoon Massacre
The Dunoon Massacre was a 17th-century slaughter of members of Clan Lamont by their rivals, Clan Campbell, in Argyll, Scotland, following the clan conflicts of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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B.
Simele massacre
The Simele massacre was a 1933 atrocity in the Kingdom of Iraq in which Iraqi forces killed thousands of Assyrian civilians, marking one of the first modern genocidal campaigns against the Assyrian people.
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C.
Wereth massacre
The Wereth massacre was a World War II war crime in which 11 African American soldiers of the U.S. Army were captured, tortured, and murdered by members of the Waffen-SS during the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium.
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D.
Parsley Massacre
The Parsley Massacre was a 1937 state-orchestrated mass killing of thousands of Haitians and Haitian-descended people along the Dominican–Haitian border, ordered by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo and named for the Spanish word for “parsley” used to identify victims.
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E.
First Qana massacre
The First Qana massacre refers to the 1996 Israeli artillery shelling of a UN compound in Qana, Lebanon, that killed and injured scores of civilians sheltering there during Operation Grapes of Wrath.
- 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: Massacre of Najran Christians Target entity description: The Massacre of Najran Christians was a 6th-century persecution and mass killing of the Christian community in Najran, in present-day Saudi Arabia, traditionally attributed to the Jewish Himyarite king Dhu Nuwas.
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A.
Dunoon Massacre
The Dunoon Massacre was a 17th-century slaughter of members of Clan Lamont by their rivals, Clan Campbell, in Argyll, Scotland, following the clan conflicts of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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B.
Simele massacre
The Simele massacre was a 1933 atrocity in the Kingdom of Iraq in which Iraqi forces killed thousands of Assyrian civilians, marking one of the first modern genocidal campaigns against the Assyrian people.
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C.
Wereth massacre
The Wereth massacre was a World War II war crime in which 11 African American soldiers of the U.S. Army were captured, tortured, and murdered by members of the Waffen-SS during the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium.
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D.
Parsley Massacre
The Parsley Massacre was a 1937 state-orchestrated mass killing of thousands of Haitians and Haitian-descended people along the Dominican–Haitian border, ordered by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo and named for the Spanish word for “parsley” used to identify victims.
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E.
First Qana massacre
The First Qana massacre refers to the 1996 Israeli artillery shelling of a UN compound in Qana, Lebanon, that killed and injured scores of civilians sheltering there during Operation Grapes of Wrath.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.