Battle of Vyazma
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The Battle of Vyazma was a 1941 Eastern Front engagement during Operation Barbarossa in which German forces encircled and inflicted heavy losses on retreating Soviet troops near the town of Vyazma.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Battle of Vyazma canonical | 4 |
| Battle of Vyazma (1812) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3004655 — 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: Battle of Vyazma Context triple: [Vyazma pocket, alsoKnownAs, Battle of Vyazma]
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Battle of Smolensk
The Battle of Smolensk was a major 1812 engagement during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, in which French and Russian forces clashed fiercely over the strategic city of Smolensk, setting the stage for the later Battle of Borodino.
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B.
Battle of the Moskva
The Battle of the Moskva, better known as the Battle of Borodino, was a major 1812 clash between Napoleon’s Grande Armée and Russian forces near Moscow, often regarded as one of the bloodiest single-day battles of the Napoleonic Wars.
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C.
Battle of Bolkhov
The Battle of Bolkhov was a significant engagement during the early 17th-century Polish–Muscovite War in which Polish–Lithuanian forces clashed with the Tsardom of Russia amid the wider Time of Troubles.
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D.
Battle of Klushino
The Battle of Klushino was a major 1610 victory of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth over Russian and Swedish forces during the Polish–Muscovite War, which opened the way for the Polish occupation of Moscow.
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E.
Battle of Lesnaya
The Battle of Lesnaya was a 1708 engagement in the Great Northern War in which Peter the Great’s Russian forces dealt a crucial blow to a Swedish supply corps, helping to undermine Charles XII’s campaign before Poltava.
- 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: Battle of Vyazma Target entity description: The Battle of Vyazma was a 1941 Eastern Front engagement during Operation Barbarossa in which German forces encircled and inflicted heavy losses on retreating Soviet troops near the town of Vyazma.
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A.
Battle of Smolensk
The Battle of Smolensk was a major 1812 engagement during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, in which French and Russian forces clashed fiercely over the strategic city of Smolensk, setting the stage for the later Battle of Borodino.
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B.
Battle of the Moskva
The Battle of the Moskva, better known as the Battle of Borodino, was a major 1812 clash between Napoleon’s Grande Armée and Russian forces near Moscow, often regarded as one of the bloodiest single-day battles of the Napoleonic Wars.
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C.
Battle of Bolkhov
The Battle of Bolkhov was a significant engagement during the early 17th-century Polish–Muscovite War in which Polish–Lithuanian forces clashed with the Tsardom of Russia amid the wider Time of Troubles.
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D.
Battle of Klushino
The Battle of Klushino was a major 1610 victory of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth over Russian and Swedish forces during the Polish–Muscovite War, which opened the way for the Polish occupation of Moscow.
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E.
Battle of Lesnaya
The Battle of Lesnaya was a 1708 engagement in the Great Northern War in which Peter the Great’s Russian forces dealt a crucial blow to a Swedish supply corps, helping to undermine Charles XII’s campaign before Poltava.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Battle of Vyazma Description of subject: The Battle of Vyazma was a 1941 Eastern Front engagement during Operation Barbarossa in which German forces encircled and inflicted heavy losses on retreating Soviet troops near the town of Vyazma.
Referenced by (5)
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