Kattankudy mosque massacre (1990)
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The Kattankudy mosque massacre (1990) was a brutal attack in eastern Sri Lanka in which Tamil Tiger militants killed over 100 Muslim worshippers during evening prayers, becoming one of the most notorious atrocities of the Sri Lankan civil war.
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| Kattankudy mosque massacre (1990) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14129668 — 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)
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Target entity: Kattankudy mosque massacre (1990) Context triple: [Eelam War II, hasEvent, Kattankudy mosque massacre (1990)]
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A.
Black July anti-Tamil pogrom
The Black July anti-Tamil pogrom was a series of violent attacks against Sri Lanka’s Tamil population in July 1983 that marked a major escalation in ethnic tensions and helped trigger the country’s protracted civil war.
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B.
Mai Kadra massacre
The Mai Kadra massacre was a large-scale killing of civilians in the Ethiopian town of Mai Kadra during the early stages of the Tigray War in November 2020, marked by ethnically targeted violence and widespread human rights abuses.
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C.
Nyanya bombings
The Nyanya bombings were deadly terrorist attacks near Abuja, Nigeria, in 2014, widely attributed to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram and emblematic of its violent insurgency.
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D.
Laha massacre
The Laha massacre was a World War II war crime in which Japanese forces executed hundreds of Australian and Dutch prisoners of war on Ambon Island in 1942.
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E.
Juma'at al-Karama massacre
The Juma'at al-Karama massacre was a deadly 2011 attack on anti-government protesters in Sana'a, Yemen, that became a pivotal and galvanizing event in the Yemeni uprising during the Arab Spring.
- 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: Kattankudy mosque massacre (1990) Target entity description: The Kattankudy mosque massacre (1990) was a brutal attack in eastern Sri Lanka in which Tamil Tiger militants killed over 100 Muslim worshippers during evening prayers, becoming one of the most notorious atrocities of the Sri Lankan civil war.
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A.
Black July anti-Tamil pogrom
The Black July anti-Tamil pogrom was a series of violent attacks against Sri Lanka’s Tamil population in July 1983 that marked a major escalation in ethnic tensions and helped trigger the country’s protracted civil war.
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B.
Mai Kadra massacre
The Mai Kadra massacre was a large-scale killing of civilians in the Ethiopian town of Mai Kadra during the early stages of the Tigray War in November 2020, marked by ethnically targeted violence and widespread human rights abuses.
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C.
Nyanya bombings
The Nyanya bombings were deadly terrorist attacks near Abuja, Nigeria, in 2014, widely attributed to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram and emblematic of its violent insurgency.
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D.
Laha massacre
The Laha massacre was a World War II war crime in which Japanese forces executed hundreds of Australian and Dutch prisoners of war on Ambon Island in 1942.
-
E.
Juma'at al-Karama massacre
The Juma'at al-Karama massacre was a deadly 2011 attack on anti-government protesters in Sana'a, Yemen, that became a pivotal and galvanizing event in the Yemeni uprising during the Arab Spring.
- F. None of above. chosen
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