Palliyagodella massacre (1991)
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The Palliyagodella massacre (1991) was a brutal mass killing of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka, carried out by government-backed Muslim home guards and security forces during the height of the country’s civil war.
All labels observed (1)
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| Palliyagodella massacre (1991) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14129669 — 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: Palliyagodella massacre (1991) Context triple: [Eelam War II, hasEvent, Palliyagodella massacre (1991)]
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Baga massacre
The Baga massacre was a 2015 attack in northeastern Nigeria in which Boko Haram militants killed hundreds of civilians and destroyed large parts of the town of Baga.
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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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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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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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E.
Friday of Dignity massacre
The Friday of Dignity massacre was a pivotal 2011 attack on anti-government protesters in Sana'a that galvanized opposition to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and intensified the Yemeni Revolution.
- 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: Palliyagodella massacre (1991) Target entity description: The Palliyagodella massacre (1991) was a brutal mass killing of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka, carried out by government-backed Muslim home guards and security forces during the height of the country’s civil war.
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A.
Baga massacre
The Baga massacre was a 2015 attack in northeastern Nigeria in which Boko Haram militants killed hundreds of civilians and destroyed large parts of the town of Baga.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Friday of Dignity massacre
The Friday of Dignity massacre was a pivotal 2011 attack on anti-government protesters in Sana'a that galvanized opposition to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and intensified the Yemeni Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
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