Mile Mrkšić
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Mile Mrkšić was a Serb military officer and Yugoslav Army colonel who became known for his role in the Croatian War of Independence and was later convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mile Mrkšić canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7086482 — 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: Mile Mrkšić Context triple: [Operation Storm, commanderOpposing, Mile Mrkšić]
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A.
Mirko Marjanović
Mirko Marjanović was a Serbian politician and businessman who served as prime minister during the 1990s under Slobodan Milošević’s rule.
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B.
Ante Kostelić
Ante Kostelić is a Croatian former handball player and renowned ski coach best known for training his children, including legendary alpine skier Janica Kostelić.
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C.
Mladen Markač
Mladen Markač is a Croatian general and former commander of special police forces, known for his prominent role in the Croatian War of Independence and subsequent war crimes proceedings at the ICTY.
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D.
Tomislav Ružić
Tomislav Ružić is a Croatian former professional basketball player and coach known for his career in European leagues.
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E.
Prvoslav Perić
Prvoslav Perić, better known as Patriarch Porfirije, is the current head of the Serbian Orthodox Church and a prominent religious leader in Serbia and the wider Orthodox Christian world.
- 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: Mile Mrkšić Target entity description: Mile Mrkšić was a Serb military officer and Yugoslav Army colonel who became known for his role in the Croatian War of Independence and was later convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
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A.
Mirko Marjanović
Mirko Marjanović was a Serbian politician and businessman who served as prime minister during the 1990s under Slobodan Milošević’s rule.
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B.
Ante Kostelić
Ante Kostelić is a Croatian former handball player and renowned ski coach best known for training his children, including legendary alpine skier Janica Kostelić.
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C.
Mladen Markač
Mladen Markač is a Croatian general and former commander of special police forces, known for his prominent role in the Croatian War of Independence and subsequent war crimes proceedings at the ICTY.
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D.
Tomislav Ružić
Tomislav Ružić is a Croatian former professional basketball player and coach known for his career in European leagues.
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E.
Prvoslav Perić
Prvoslav Perić, better known as Patriarch Porfirije, is the current head of the Serbian Orthodox Church and a prominent religious leader in Serbia and the wider Orthodox Christian world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military officer
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person ⓘ war criminal ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Republic of Serbian Krajina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yugoslav People’s Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appealJudgmentDate | 2009-05-05 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| charge |
crimes against humanity
ⓘ
war crimes ⓘ |
| chargedBy | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Croatian War of Independence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| convictedBy | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
inhumane acts
ⓘ
murder ⓘ persecutions on political, racial and religious grounds ⓘ torture ⓘ war crimes against Croat and other non-Serb civilians ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Yugoslavia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Serbia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yugoslavia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Portugal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-07-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2015-08-16 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Serb ⓘ |
| familyName | Mrkšić NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Mile Mrkšić NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Mile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involvedIn | siege of Vukovar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| judgmentDate | 2007-09-27 ⓘ |
| legalProceeding | IT-95-13/1 (Vukovar Hospital case) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Serbian Army of Krajina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yugoslav People’s Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| nationality | Serbian ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Ovčara massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command responsibility for crimes at Ovčara farm near Vukovar in 1991
ⓘ
role in the Battle of Vukovar ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vrginmost NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Lisbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDetention | Portugal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
commander of JNA forces at Vukovar
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commander of the Yugoslav People’s Army Operational Group South ⓘ |
| sentence | 20 years imprisonment ⓘ |
| surrenderDate | 2002-05-15 ⓘ |
| surrenderedTo | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trialStart | 2005-10-11 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mile Mrkšić Description of subject: Mile Mrkšić was a Serb military officer and Yugoslav Army colonel who became known for his role in the Croatian War of Independence and was later convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.