Formosa Incident
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The Formosa Incident was a pivotal 1979 pro-democracy demonstration in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, whose violent suppression by the Kuomintang regime galvanized opposition forces and significantly advanced Taiwan’s democratization and independence movement.
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| Formosa Incident canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23409038 — 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: Formosa Incident Context triple: [Taiwan independence movement, hasNotableEvent, Formosa Incident]
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Haiphong incident
The Haiphong incident was a violent 1946 clash between French colonial forces and Vietnamese nationalists in the port city of Haiphong that escalated tensions and helped trigger the First Indochina War.
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Siebold incident
The Siebold incident was a 19th-century diplomatic scandal in which German physician Philipp Franz von Siebold was expelled from Japan for allegedly smuggling sensitive maps and information, highlighting Japan’s strict isolationist policies of the time.
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C.
Tainan Incident of 1915
The Tainan Incident of 1915, also known as the Tapani Incident, was a major anti-Japanese uprising in colonial Taiwan led by local religious and militia leaders against Japanese rule.
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Marco Polo Bridge Incident
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident was a 1937 armed clash between Japanese and Chinese troops near Beijing that escalated into full-scale war between Japan and China.
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E.
Mukden Incident
The Mukden Incident was a staged 1931 explosion on a Japanese-controlled railway in Manchuria used by Japan as a pretext to invade and occupy the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Formosa Incident Target entity description: The Formosa Incident was a pivotal 1979 pro-democracy demonstration in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, whose violent suppression by the Kuomintang regime galvanized opposition forces and significantly advanced Taiwan’s democratization and independence movement.
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A.
Haiphong incident
The Haiphong incident was a violent 1946 clash between French colonial forces and Vietnamese nationalists in the port city of Haiphong that escalated tensions and helped trigger the First Indochina War.
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B.
Siebold incident
The Siebold incident was a 19th-century diplomatic scandal in which German physician Philipp Franz von Siebold was expelled from Japan for allegedly smuggling sensitive maps and information, highlighting Japan’s strict isolationist policies of the time.
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C.
Tainan Incident of 1915
The Tainan Incident of 1915, also known as the Tapani Incident, was a major anti-Japanese uprising in colonial Taiwan led by local religious and militia leaders against Japanese rule.
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D.
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident was a 1937 armed clash between Japanese and Chinese troops near Beijing that escalated into full-scale war between Japan and China.
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E.
Mukden Incident
The Mukden Incident was a staged 1931 explosion on a Japanese-controlled railway in Manchuria used by Japan as a pretext to invade and occupy the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.