Fontenay-le-Pesnel killings
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The Fontenay-le-Pesnel killings were a World War II war crime in Normandy in which German forces executed captured Allied soldiers and civilians.
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| Fontenay-le-Pesnel killings canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12083650 — 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: Fontenay-le-Pesnel killings Context triple: [12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, involvedIn, Fontenay-le-Pesnel killings]
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A.
Ascq massacre
The Ascq massacre was a World War II atrocity in which German SS troops killed dozens of French civilians in the village of Ascq in northern France in 1944.
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B.
École Polytechnique massacre
The École Polytechnique massacre was a 1989 antifeminist mass shooting at an engineering school in Montreal, Canada, in which 14 women were murdered and which profoundly impacted Canadian society and gun control laws.
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C.
Tulle massacre
The Tulle massacre was a World War II atrocity in June 1944 in which German SS troops hanged and killed dozens of French civilians in the town of Tulle as a brutal reprisal against Resistance activities.
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D.
Elaine massacre
The Elaine massacre was a 1919 outbreak of racist mob violence in Elaine, Arkansas, in which white mobs and authorities killed an untold number of Black sharecroppers who were organizing for better labor rights.
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E.
Champ de Mars Massacre
The Champ de Mars Massacre was a pivotal 1791 incident during the French Revolution in which troops fired on republican demonstrators in Paris, sharply deepening political divisions and radicalizing the revolutionary movement.
- 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: Fontenay-le-Pesnel killings Target entity description: The Fontenay-le-Pesnel killings were a World War II war crime in Normandy in which German forces executed captured Allied soldiers and civilians.
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A.
Ascq massacre
The Ascq massacre was a World War II atrocity in which German SS troops killed dozens of French civilians in the village of Ascq in northern France in 1944.
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B.
École Polytechnique massacre
The École Polytechnique massacre was a 1989 antifeminist mass shooting at an engineering school in Montreal, Canada, in which 14 women were murdered and which profoundly impacted Canadian society and gun control laws.
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C.
Tulle massacre
The Tulle massacre was a World War II atrocity in June 1944 in which German SS troops hanged and killed dozens of French civilians in the town of Tulle as a brutal reprisal against Resistance activities.
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D.
Elaine massacre
The Elaine massacre was a 1919 outbreak of racist mob violence in Elaine, Arkansas, in which white mobs and authorities killed an untold number of Black sharecroppers who were organizing for better labor rights.
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E.
Champ de Mars Massacre
The Champ de Mars Massacre was a pivotal 1791 incident during the French Revolution in which troops fired on republican demonstrators in Paris, sharply deepening political divisions and radicalizing the revolutionary movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
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