Year of the Elephant incident
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The Year of the Elephant incident refers to the famous pre-Islamic event in which an invading army with war elephants, led by Abraha to destroy the Kaaba in Mecca, was miraculously defeated, traditionally dated to the year of the Prophet Muhammad’s birth.
All labels observed (1)
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| Year of the Elephant incident canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14470074 — 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: Year of the Elephant incident Context triple: [Destruction of the Army of the Elephant, hasOtherName, Year of the Elephant incident]
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Sian Incident
The Sian Incident was a 1936 political crisis in China in which Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was detained by his own generals, leading to a negotiated United Front between the Nationalists and Communists against Japanese aggression.
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Kowshing incident
The Kowshing incident was an 1894 naval confrontation at the start of the First Sino-Japanese War, in which a British-flagged transport ship carrying Chinese troops was sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy, causing a major diplomatic controversy.
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C.
Bubat incident
The Bubat incident was a 14th-century political and military clash in the Majapahit Kingdom, marked by the tragic confrontation between Majapahit forces and the Sundanese royal entourage that derailed a planned dynastic marriage and reshaped Javanese inter-kingdom relations.
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Chen Bridge Mutiny
The Chen Bridge Mutiny was a pivotal 10th-century military uprising in China that enabled Zhao Kuangyin to seize power and establish the Song dynasty as Emperor Taizu.
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Otrar Incident
The Otrar Incident was a diplomatic and commercial conflict in 1218, when the governor of the Khwarazmian city of Otrar ordered the arrest and execution of a Mongol trade caravan, provoking Genghis Khan’s invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire.
- 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: Year of the Elephant incident Target entity description: The Year of the Elephant incident refers to the famous pre-Islamic event in which an invading army with war elephants, led by Abraha to destroy the Kaaba in Mecca, was miraculously defeated, traditionally dated to the year of the Prophet Muhammad’s birth.
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A.
Sian Incident
The Sian Incident was a 1936 political crisis in China in which Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was detained by his own generals, leading to a negotiated United Front between the Nationalists and Communists against Japanese aggression.
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B.
Kowshing incident
The Kowshing incident was an 1894 naval confrontation at the start of the First Sino-Japanese War, in which a British-flagged transport ship carrying Chinese troops was sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy, causing a major diplomatic controversy.
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C.
Bubat incident
The Bubat incident was a 14th-century political and military clash in the Majapahit Kingdom, marked by the tragic confrontation between Majapahit forces and the Sundanese royal entourage that derailed a planned dynastic marriage and reshaped Javanese inter-kingdom relations.
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D.
Chen Bridge Mutiny
The Chen Bridge Mutiny was a pivotal 10th-century military uprising in China that enabled Zhao Kuangyin to seize power and establish the Song dynasty as Emperor Taizu.
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E.
Otrar Incident
The Otrar Incident was a diplomatic and commercial conflict in 1218, when the governor of the Khwarazmian city of Otrar ordered the arrest and execution of a Mongol trade caravan, provoking Genghis Khan’s invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
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