1989 UCA massacre
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The 1989 UCA massacre was the killing of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter by Salvadoran soldiers at the University of Central America in San Salvador during El Salvador’s civil war.
All labels observed (1)
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| 1989 UCA massacre canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7266143 — 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: 1989 UCA massacre Context triple: [Ignacio Ellacuría, victimOf, 1989 UCA massacre]
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Bama massacre
The Bama massacre was a deadly attack in 2014 by Boko Haram on the town of Bama in Borno State, Nigeria, in which hundreds of civilians were killed and widespread destruction occurred.
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B.
Jackson State killings
The Jackson State killings were a 1970 incident in which police opened fire on students at Jackson State College in Mississippi during anti–Vietnam War and civil rights protests, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
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C.
Ellenton massacre
The Ellenton massacre was an 1876 episode of racial and political violence in South Carolina in which white supremacist paramilitaries attacked and killed numerous Black residents to suppress their civil and voting rights during Reconstruction.
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D.
Friday of Dignity massacre
The Friday of Dignity massacre was a pivotal 2011 attack on anti-government protesters in Sana'a that galvanized opposition to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and intensified the Yemeni Revolution.
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E.
Pavonia Massacre
The Pavonia Massacre was a 1643 attack by Dutch colonists on Lenape Native Americans in present-day Jersey City, New Jersey, that helped ignite the broader conflict known as Kieft's War.
- 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: 1989 UCA massacre Target entity description: The 1989 UCA massacre was the killing of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter by Salvadoran soldiers at the University of Central America in San Salvador during El Salvador’s civil war.
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A.
Bama massacre
The Bama massacre was a deadly attack in 2014 by Boko Haram on the town of Bama in Borno State, Nigeria, in which hundreds of civilians were killed and widespread destruction occurred.
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B.
Jackson State killings
The Jackson State killings were a 1970 incident in which police opened fire on students at Jackson State College in Mississippi during anti–Vietnam War and civil rights protests, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
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C.
Ellenton massacre
The Ellenton massacre was an 1876 episode of racial and political violence in South Carolina in which white supremacist paramilitaries attacked and killed numerous Black residents to suppress their civil and voting rights during Reconstruction.
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D.
Friday of Dignity massacre
The Friday of Dignity massacre was a pivotal 2011 attack on anti-government protesters in Sana'a that galvanized opposition to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and intensified the Yemeni Revolution.
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E.
Pavonia Massacre
The Pavonia Massacre was a 1643 attack by Dutch colonists on Lenape Native Americans in present-day Jersey City, New Jersey, that helped ignite the broader conflict known as Kieft's War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: 1989 UCA massacre Description of subject: The 1989 UCA massacre was the killing of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter by Salvadoran soldiers at the University of Central America in San Salvador during El Salvador’s civil war.
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