sinking of USS Maine
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The sinking of USS Maine was an 1898 explosion and loss of a U.S. Navy battleship in Havana Harbor that killed most of its crew and helped trigger the Spanish–American War.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14125079 — 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: sinking of USS Maine Context triple: [Charles Dwight Sigsbee, eventAssociatedWith, sinking of USS Maine]
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sinking of the RMS Lusitania
The sinking of the RMS Lusitania was a 1915 World War I maritime disaster in which a British ocean liner was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland, causing heavy civilian casualties and intensifying anti-German sentiment.
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Disaster of 1898
The Disaster of 1898 was the decisive defeat of Spain in the Spanish–American War, marking the loss of its last major colonies and the effective end of the Spanish Empire.
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Tonkin Affair
The Tonkin Affair was a late 19th-century French political scandal and military setback in Indochina that provoked fierce parliamentary controversy and ultimately toppled the government of Jules Ferry.
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Capture of Veracruz (1862)
The Capture of Veracruz (1862) was an early French military operation during the intervention in Mexico in which French forces seized the strategic Gulf port city to secure a foothold for their broader campaign.
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Bombardment of San Juan
The Bombardment of San Juan was a U.S. naval attack on the Spanish-held city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1898 during the Spanish–American War.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: sinking of USS Maine Target entity description: The sinking of USS Maine was an 1898 explosion and loss of a U.S. Navy battleship in Havana Harbor that killed most of its crew and helped trigger the Spanish–American War.
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A.
sinking of the RMS Lusitania
The sinking of the RMS Lusitania was a 1915 World War I maritime disaster in which a British ocean liner was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland, causing heavy civilian casualties and intensifying anti-German sentiment.
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B.
Disaster of 1898
The Disaster of 1898 was the decisive defeat of Spain in the Spanish–American War, marking the loss of its last major colonies and the effective end of the Spanish Empire.
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C.
Tonkin Affair
The Tonkin Affair was a late 19th-century French political scandal and military setback in Indochina that provoked fierce parliamentary controversy and ultimately toppled the government of Jules Ferry.
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D.
Capture of Veracruz (1862)
The Capture of Veracruz (1862) was an early French military operation during the intervention in Mexico in which French forces seized the strategic Gulf port city to secure a foothold for their broader campaign.
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E.
Bombardment of San Juan
The Bombardment of San Juan was a U.S. naval attack on the Spanish-held city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1898 during the Spanish–American War.
- F. None of above. chosen
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