Battle of Elephant Pass
E461938
The Battle of Elephant Pass was a pivotal military engagement in the Sri Lankan Civil War, centered on control of the strategically crucial land bridge linking the Jaffna Peninsula to the rest of Sri Lanka.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Second Battle of Elephant Pass | 3 |
| Battle of Elephant Pass canonical | 1 |
| First Battle of Elephant Pass | 1 |
| Third Battle of Elephant Pass | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4685862 — 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 Elephant Pass Context triple: [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, notableBattle, Battle of Elephant Pass]
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Battle of Bamut
The Battle of Bamut was a prolonged and fiercely contested engagement during the First Chechen War, in which Russian forces struggled for months to capture the heavily fortified Chechen-held village of Bamut.
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Battle of Badme
The Battle of Badme was a pivotal and fiercely contested engagement between Eritrean and Ethiopian forces that helped trigger and define the course of the Eritrean–Ethiopian War in the late 1990s.
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Battle of Amba Alagi
The Battle of Amba Alagi was a key World War II engagement in Ethiopia where Allied forces defeated Italian troops, contributing to the liberation of Italian East Africa.
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D.
Battle of Abu Klea
The Battle of Abu Klea was a key 1885 engagement of the Mahdist War in Sudan, in which a British relief column fought Mahdist forces while attempting to reach besieged Khartoum.
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Battle of Qurna
The Battle of Qurna was a World War I engagement in Mesopotamia where British and Indian forces secured control of the strategically important town of Qurna at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
- 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 Elephant Pass Target entity description: The Battle of Elephant Pass was a pivotal military engagement in the Sri Lankan Civil War, centered on control of the strategically crucial land bridge linking the Jaffna Peninsula to the rest of Sri Lanka.
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A.
Battle of Bamut
The Battle of Bamut was a prolonged and fiercely contested engagement during the First Chechen War, in which Russian forces struggled for months to capture the heavily fortified Chechen-held village of Bamut.
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B.
Battle of Badme
The Battle of Badme was a pivotal and fiercely contested engagement between Eritrean and Ethiopian forces that helped trigger and define the course of the Eritrean–Ethiopian War in the late 1990s.
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C.
Battle of Amba Alagi
The Battle of Amba Alagi was a key World War II engagement in Ethiopia where Allied forces defeated Italian troops, contributing to the liberation of Italian East Africa.
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D.
Battle of Abu Klea
The Battle of Abu Klea was a key 1885 engagement of the Mahdist War in Sudan, in which a British relief column fought Mahdist forces while attempting to reach besieged Khartoum.
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E.
Battle of Qurna
The Battle of Qurna was a World War I engagement in Mesopotamia where British and Indian forces secured control of the strategically important town of Qurna at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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Instruction
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Subject: Battle of Elephant Pass Description of subject: The Battle of Elephant Pass was a pivotal military engagement in the Sri Lankan Civil War, centered on control of the strategically crucial land bridge linking the Jaffna Peninsula to the rest of Sri Lanka.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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