Lidice massacre
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The Lidice massacre was a World War II atrocity in which Nazi forces destroyed the Czech village of Lidice and murdered most of its inhabitants in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lidice massacre canonical | 8 |
| Lidice | 2 |
| Czech children from Lidice | 1 |
| Lidice became a symbol of Nazi brutality | 1 |
| destruction of Lidice | 1 |
| village of Lidice | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T842807 — 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: Lidice massacre Context triple: [Waffen-SS, perpetrated, Lidice massacre]
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A.
Rumbula massacre
The Rumbula massacre was a mass killing of Latvian and German Jews near Riga in late 1941, one of the largest Holocaust shootings in Eastern Europe.
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B.
Babi Yar massacre
The Babi Yar massacre was a mass killing of tens of thousands of Jews and other civilians by Nazi forces near Kyiv in 1941, becoming one of the most infamous atrocities of the Holocaust.
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C.
Katyn massacre
The Katyn massacre was a World War II mass execution of thousands of Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940.
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D.
Malmedy massacre
The Malmedy massacre was a World War II war crime in which American prisoners of war were murdered by German SS troops during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.
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E.
Wawer massacre
The Wawer massacre was a World War II mass execution of Polish civilians by German occupiers near Warsaw in December 1939, regarded as one of the first large-scale Nazi atrocities against the Polish population.
- 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: Lidice massacre Target entity description: The Lidice massacre was a World War II atrocity in which Nazi forces destroyed the Czech village of Lidice and murdered most of its inhabitants in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
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A.
Rumbula massacre
The Rumbula massacre was a mass killing of Latvian and German Jews near Riga in late 1941, one of the largest Holocaust shootings in Eastern Europe.
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B.
Babi Yar massacre
The Babi Yar massacre was a mass killing of tens of thousands of Jews and other civilians by Nazi forces near Kyiv in 1941, becoming one of the most infamous atrocities of the Holocaust.
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C.
Katyn massacre
The Katyn massacre was a World War II mass execution of thousands of Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940.
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D.
Malmedy massacre
The Malmedy massacre was a World War II war crime in which American prisoners of war were murdered by German SS troops during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.
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E.
Wawer massacre
The Wawer massacre was a World War II mass execution of Polish civilians by German occupiers near Warsaw in December 1939, regarded as one of the first large-scale Nazi atrocities against the Polish population.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nazi war crime
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World War II atrocity ⓘ massacre ⓘ war crime ⓘ |
| action |
all men over 15 years old were executed
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church and cemetery were destroyed ⓘ many children were murdered in Chełmno extermination camp ⓘ some children were selected for Germanization ⓘ village buildings were burned ⓘ village ruins were razed ⓘ women were deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp ⓘ |
| aftermath |
Lidice massacre
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Lidice became a symbol of Nazi brutality
international outrage was provoked ⓘ |
| cause |
Operation Anthropoid
ⓘ
Ležáky massacre ⓘ
surface form:
assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
|
| commemoratedBy |
Lidice Memorial
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annual remembrance ceremonies ⓘ new village of Lidice built after World War II ⓘ |
| country | Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ⓘ |
| date | 1942-06-10 ⓘ |
| endDate | 1942-06-10 ⓘ |
| hasMediaRepresentation |
books about Lidice
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films about Lidice ⓘ |
| location |
Central Bohemian Region
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Bohemia
Czechoslovakia ⓘ Lidice massacre self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Lidice
near Kladno ⓘ |
| method |
deportation to concentration camps
ⓘ
destruction of village ⓘ mass shooting ⓘ |
| motive |
reprisal
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terror against Czech population ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complete destruction of a village as collective punishment
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use of massacre as propaganda warning to resistance movements ⓘ |
| numberOfChildrenKilled | over 80 ⓘ |
| numberOfMenExecuted | over 170 ⓘ |
| numberOfVictims | over 300 ⓘ |
| numberOfWomenDeported | over 190 ⓘ |
| orderedBy |
Adolf Hitler
ⓘ
Karl Hermann Frank ⓘ |
| partOf |
Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia
ⓘ
German occupation of Czechoslovakia ⓘ
surface form:
Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia
|
| perpetrator |
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia authorities
ⓘ
surface form:
German occupation authorities in Bohemia and Moravia
Gestapo ⓘ Nazi Germany ⓘ Schutzstaffel (SS) ⓘ
surface form:
Schutzstaffel
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| startDate | 1942-06-09 ⓘ |
| victim | inhabitants of Lidice ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Lidice massacre Description of subject: The Lidice massacre was a World War II atrocity in which Nazi forces destroyed the Czech village of Lidice and murdered most of its inhabitants in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
destruction of Lidice
this entity surface form:
village of Lidice
this entity surface form:
Lidice
this entity surface form:
Lidice became a symbol of Nazi brutality
subject surface form:
Operation Daybreak
this entity surface form:
Lidice
this entity surface form:
Czech children from Lidice