Centennial Olympic Park bombing
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The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a domestic terrorist attack during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in which a pipe bomb exploded in a public gathering area, killing two people and injuring over a hundred others.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Centennial Olympic Park bombing canonical | 7 |
| 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing | 1 |
| 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing | 1 |
| 1996 Olympic bombing | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T704093 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Centennial Olympic Park bombing Context triple: [1996 Summer Olympics, notableEvent, Centennial Olympic Park bombing]
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2013 Boston Marathon bombing
The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing was a terrorist attack in which two homemade bombs exploded near the marathon’s finish line, killing three people and injuring hundreds.
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B.
Watertown, Massachusetts shootout
The Watertown, Massachusetts shootout was the intense armed confrontation in April 2013 between law enforcement and the Boston Marathon bombing suspects that led to one suspect’s death and the manhunt’s dramatic conclusion.
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C.
Munich massacre
The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympic Games in which members of the Palestinian group Black September took Israeli athletes hostage, resulting in the deaths of eleven Israeli team members and a German police officer.
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D.
North Hollywood shootout
The North Hollywood shootout was a 1997 armed confrontation in Los Angeles in which two heavily armed bank robbers engaged in a prolonged gun battle with police, prompting major changes in law enforcement weaponry and tactics.
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E.
Mayaguez incident
The Mayaguez incident was a 1975 confrontation between the United States and Cambodia in which U.S. forces attempted to rescue the crew of the seized American merchant ship SS Mayaguez, often regarded as one of the last official battles of the Vietnam War era.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Centennial Olympic Park bombing Target entity description: The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a domestic terrorist attack during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in which a pipe bomb exploded in a public gathering area, killing two people and injuring over a hundred others.
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A.
2013 Boston Marathon bombing
The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing was a terrorist attack in which two homemade bombs exploded near the marathon’s finish line, killing three people and injuring hundreds.
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B.
Watertown, Massachusetts shootout
The Watertown, Massachusetts shootout was the intense armed confrontation in April 2013 between law enforcement and the Boston Marathon bombing suspects that led to one suspect’s death and the manhunt’s dramatic conclusion.
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C.
Munich massacre
The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympic Games in which members of the Palestinian group Black September took Israeli athletes hostage, resulting in the deaths of eleven Israeli team members and a German police officer.
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D.
North Hollywood shootout
The North Hollywood shootout was a 1997 armed confrontation in Los Angeles in which two heavily armed bank robbers engaged in a prolonged gun battle with police, prompting major changes in law enforcement weaponry and tactics.
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E.
Mayaguez incident
The Mayaguez incident was a 1975 confrontation between the United States and Cambodia in which U.S. forces attempted to rescue the crew of the seized American merchant ship SS Mayaguez, often regarded as one of the last official battles of the Vietnam War era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Centennial Olympic Park bombing Description of subject: The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a domestic terrorist attack during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in which a pipe bomb exploded in a public gathering area, killing two people and injuring over a hundred others.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
1996 Olympic bombing
this entity surface form:
1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing
subject surface form:
Richard Jewell (film)
this entity surface form:
1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing