Port Arthur massacre
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The Port Arthur massacre was a brutal mass killing of Chinese civilians by Imperial Japanese forces in the city of Lüshun (then Port Arthur) during the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Port Arthur massacre canonical | 6 |
| Port Arthur siege | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12620871 — 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: Port Arthur massacre Context triple: [Lüshun, notableEvent, Port Arthur massacre]
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A.
Myall Creek massacre
The Myall Creek massacre was an 1838 atrocity in New South Wales in which a group of colonists murdered at least 28 unarmed Aboriginal people, leading to one of the first successful prosecutions of Europeans for the killing of Indigenous Australians.
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B.
Glenrowan siege
The Glenrowan siege was the dramatic 1880 standoff in Victoria, Australia, where bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang made their final stand against police, leading to Kelly’s capture and the gang’s demise.
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C.
Greysteel massacre
The Greysteel massacre was a 1993 mass shooting in a bar in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, carried out by loyalist paramilitaries during the Troubles.
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D.
Eureka Stockade
Eureka Stockade was a pivotal 1854 miners’ uprising in Ballarat, Victoria, widely regarded as a key moment in the development of Australian democracy and workers’ rights.
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E.
Weenen massacre
The Weenen massacre was an 1838 killing of Voortrekker settlers by Zulu forces in present-day South Africa, which became a pivotal flashpoint in the conflict between the Voortrekkers and the Zulu Kingdom.
- 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: Port Arthur massacre Target entity description: The Port Arthur massacre was a brutal mass killing of Chinese civilians by Imperial Japanese forces in the city of Lüshun (then Port Arthur) during the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894.
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A.
Myall Creek massacre
The Myall Creek massacre was an 1838 atrocity in New South Wales in which a group of colonists murdered at least 28 unarmed Aboriginal people, leading to one of the first successful prosecutions of Europeans for the killing of Indigenous Australians.
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B.
Glenrowan siege
The Glenrowan siege was the dramatic 1880 standoff in Victoria, Australia, where bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang made their final stand against police, leading to Kelly’s capture and the gang’s demise.
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C.
Greysteel massacre
The Greysteel massacre was a 1993 mass shooting in a bar in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, carried out by loyalist paramilitaries during the Troubles.
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D.
Eureka Stockade
Eureka Stockade was a pivotal 1854 miners’ uprising in Ballarat, Victoria, widely regarded as a key moment in the development of Australian democracy and workers’ rights.
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E.
Weenen massacre
The Weenen massacre was an 1838 killing of Voortrekker settlers by Zulu forces in present-day South Africa, which became a pivotal flashpoint in the conflict between the Voortrekkers and the Zulu Kingdom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.