Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was a Sri Lankan Tamil militant separatist organization that fought for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka from the late 1970s until its defeat in 2009.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T874310 — 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: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Context triple: [Rajiv Gandhi, assassinatedBy, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]
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Taliban
The Taliban is an Islamist militant and political movement originating in Afghanistan, known for its strict interpretation of Sharia law and its long-running insurgency against Afghan governments and international forces.
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Irish National Liberation Army
The Irish National Liberation Army was a republican paramilitary organization in Northern Ireland that sought to end British rule and establish a socialist republic, becoming known for its violent campaign during the Troubles.
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Kosovo Liberation Army
The Kosovo Liberation Army was an ethnic Albanian paramilitary organization that fought for Kosovo’s independence from Serbia in the late 1990s.
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National Council of Timorese Resistance
The National Council of Timorese Resistance was the main umbrella organization coordinating East Timor’s political and armed struggle for independence from Indonesian occupation.
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Malayan National Liberation Army
The Malayan National Liberation Army was the armed wing of the Malayan Communist Party that waged a guerrilla insurgency against British colonial and Malayan government forces during the Malayan Emergency.
- 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: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Target entity description: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was a Sri Lankan Tamil militant separatist organization that fought for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka from the late 1970s until its defeat in 2009.
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A.
Taliban
The Taliban is an Islamist militant and political movement originating in Afghanistan, known for its strict interpretation of Sharia law and its long-running insurgency against Afghan governments and international forces.
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B.
Irish National Liberation Army
The Irish National Liberation Army was a republican paramilitary organization in Northern Ireland that sought to end British rule and establish a socialist republic, becoming known for its violent campaign during the Troubles.
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C.
Kosovo Liberation Army
The Kosovo Liberation Army was an ethnic Albanian paramilitary organization that fought for Kosovo’s independence from Serbia in the late 1990s.
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D.
National Council of Timorese Resistance
The National Council of Timorese Resistance was the main umbrella organization coordinating East Timor’s political and armed struggle for independence from Indonesian occupation.
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E.
Malayan National Liberation Army
The Malayan National Liberation Army was the armed wing of the Malayan Communist Party that waged a guerrilla insurgency against British colonial and Malayan government forces during the Malayan Emergency.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Description of subject: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was a Sri Lankan Tamil militant separatist organization that fought for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka from the late 1970s until its defeat in 2009.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
LTTE naval wing Sea Tigers
this entity surface form:
LTTE air wing Air Tigers
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
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this entity surface form:
LTTE
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Tamil Tigers
this entity surface form:
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
this entity surface form:
Tamil Eelam independence movement
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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, 1976
this entity surface form:
LTTE
this entity surface form:
LTTE
this entity surface form:
LTTE Sea Tigers
this entity surface form:
LTTE Black Tigers
this entity surface form:
LTTE