Waihi miners strike of 1912
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The Waihi miners strike of 1912 was a major New Zealand industrial dispute in the gold-mining town of Waihi that became one of the country’s most violent and significant early 20th-century labor conflicts.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12315109 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Waihi miners strike of 1912 Context triple: [Waihi, historicalEvent, Waihi miners strike of 1912]
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A.
Newsboys' strike of 1899
The Newsboys' strike of 1899 was a historic labor action in New York City where child newspaper sellers organized a successful boycott against major publishers to protest unfair pricing and working conditions.
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B.
Pittston Coal strike
The Pittston Coal strike was a major late-1980s labor dispute in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky, where coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers of America staged prolonged protests and civil disobedience against the Pittston Coal Company over cuts to health and retirement benefits.
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C.
Homestead Strike
The Homestead Strike was an 1892 industrial labor conflict at Andrew Carnegie’s steel plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, that became one of the most violent and significant clashes between workers and management in U.S. labor history.
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D.
Río Blanco strike of 1907
The Río Blanco strike of 1907 was a major labor uprising by textile workers in Mexico whose violent repression became a landmark event in the growing opposition to the Porfirio Díaz regime.
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E.
Great Northern Railway strike of 1894
The Great Northern Railway strike of 1894 was a major U.S. labor conflict in which railroad workers, organized largely under Eugene V. Debs’s American Railway Union, successfully protested wage cuts on the Great Northern Railway.
- 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: Waihi miners strike of 1912 Target entity description: The Waihi miners strike of 1912 was a major New Zealand industrial dispute in the gold-mining town of Waihi that became one of the country’s most violent and significant early 20th-century labor conflicts.
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A.
Newsboys' strike of 1899
The Newsboys' strike of 1899 was a historic labor action in New York City where child newspaper sellers organized a successful boycott against major publishers to protest unfair pricing and working conditions.
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B.
Pittston Coal strike
The Pittston Coal strike was a major late-1980s labor dispute in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky, where coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers of America staged prolonged protests and civil disobedience against the Pittston Coal Company over cuts to health and retirement benefits.
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C.
Homestead Strike
The Homestead Strike was an 1892 industrial labor conflict at Andrew Carnegie’s steel plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, that became one of the most violent and significant clashes between workers and management in U.S. labor history.
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D.
Río Blanco strike of 1907
The Río Blanco strike of 1907 was a major labor uprising by textile workers in Mexico whose violent repression became a landmark event in the growing opposition to the Porfirio Díaz regime.
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E.
Great Northern Railway strike of 1894
The Great Northern Railway strike of 1894 was a major U.S. labor conflict in which railroad workers, organized largely under Eugene V. Debs’s American Railway Union, successfully protested wage cuts on the Great Northern Railway.
- F. None of above. chosen
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