Surinamese Interior War
E617836
The Surinamese Interior War was an internal armed conflict in Suriname during the late 1980s between the military-led government and the Jungle Commando rebel group, largely affecting the country’s interior Maroon communities.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Surinamese Interior War canonical | 1 |
| affected by Surinamese Interior War | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6756718 — 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: Surinamese Interior War Context triple: [Marowijne District, hasHistoricalEvent, Surinamese Interior War]
-
A.
Nicaraguan Civil War
The Nicaraguan Civil War was a late-20th-century armed conflict between the Sandinista government and U.S.-backed Contra rebels that devastated Nicaragua and became a major Cold War proxy battleground in Central America.
-
B.
Bougainville Civil War
The Bougainville Civil War was a violent secessionist conflict in Papua New Guinea from 1988 to 1998, centered on disputes over the Panguna copper mine, environmental damage, and Bougainvillean independence.
-
C.
Grenadian Revolution
The Grenadian Revolution was a 1979 Marxist-Leninist uprising in Grenada that overthrew Prime Minister Eric Gairy and established the People's Revolutionary Government under Maurice Bishop.
-
D.
Casamance conflict
The Casamance conflict is a long-running low-intensity separatist insurgency in southern Senegal, where rebels have sought independence from the central government since the early 1980s.
-
E.
Dominican War of Independence
The Dominican War of Independence was the 1844 conflict in which Dominicans successfully broke away from Haitian rule to establish the Dominican Republic as a sovereign nation.
- 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: Surinamese Interior War Target entity description: The Surinamese Interior War was an internal armed conflict in Suriname during the late 1980s between the military-led government and the Jungle Commando rebel group, largely affecting the country’s interior Maroon communities.
-
A.
Nicaraguan Civil War
The Nicaraguan Civil War was a late-20th-century armed conflict between the Sandinista government and U.S.-backed Contra rebels that devastated Nicaragua and became a major Cold War proxy battleground in Central America.
-
B.
Bougainville Civil War
The Bougainville Civil War was a violent secessionist conflict in Papua New Guinea from 1988 to 1998, centered on disputes over the Panguna copper mine, environmental damage, and Bougainvillean independence.
-
C.
Grenadian Revolution
The Grenadian Revolution was a 1979 Marxist-Leninist uprising in Grenada that overthrew Prime Minister Eric Gairy and established the People's Revolutionary Government under Maurice Bishop.
-
D.
Casamance conflict
The Casamance conflict is a long-running low-intensity separatist insurgency in southern Senegal, where rebels have sought independence from the central government since the early 1980s.
-
E.
Dominican War of Independence
The Dominican War of Independence was the 1844 conflict in which Dominicans successfully broke away from Haitian rule to establish the Dominican Republic as a sovereign nation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | civil war ⓘ |
| affectedCommunity |
Maroon communities
ⓘ
Ndyuka Maroons ⓘ Saramaka Maroons ⓘ
linked to:
Saramaccan Maroons
|
| aftermath |
gradual restoration of democratic governance in Suriname
ⓘ
ongoing land rights disputes involving Maroon communities ⓘ |
| casualties | hundreds of people killed ⓘ |
| cause |
opposition to military dictatorship in Suriname
ⓘ
political marginalization of Maroon communities ⓘ |
| commander |
Dési Bouterse
ⓘ
Ronnie Brunswijk ⓘ |
| conflictType | internal conflict ⓘ |
| country | Suriname ⓘ |
| displacement | thousands of civilians displaced ⓘ |
| endTime | 1992 ⓘ |
| humanRightsIssue |
destruction of villages
ⓘ
forced displacement ⓘ massacres of civilians ⓘ |
| impact |
increased migration to French Guiana
ⓘ
long-term socio-economic damage to interior communities ⓘ |
| languageContext |
Dutch
ⓘ
Sranan Tongo ⓘ |
| location |
Brokopondo District
ⓘ
Marowijne District ⓘ Sipaliwini District ⓘ Surinamese interior ⓘ |
| mainCombatant |
Jungle Commando
ⓘ
Surinamese National Army ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Moiwana massacre ⓘ |
| notableEventDate | 1986-11-29 ⓘ |
| opposingForce |
Jungle Commando rebel group
ⓘ
military-led government of Suriname ⓘ |
| peaceAgreement |
1992 peace agreement between government and Jungle Commando
ⓘ
Kourou Accord ⓘ |
| primaryTheater | rural interior of Suriname ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Cold War era conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean
ⓘ
Surinamese military dictatorship ⓘ |
| result |
ceasefire agreement
ⓘ
increased recognition of Maroon rights ⓘ partial demobilization of Jungle Commando ⓘ peace accords ⓘ |
| startTime | 1986 ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 1980s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Surinamese Interior War Description of subject: The Surinamese Interior War was an internal armed conflict in Suriname during the late 1980s between the military-led government and the Jungle Commando rebel group, largely affecting the country’s interior Maroon communities.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Surinamese Interior War