Lucanamarca massacre
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The Lucanamarca massacre was a brutal 1983 attack by Shining Path guerrillas on the Andean village of Lucanamarca in Peru, in which dozens of civilians were killed and which became one of the most infamous atrocities of the internal armed conflict.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15792483 — 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)
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Target entity: Lucanamarca massacre Context triple: [Peruvian civil conflict (1980s–1990s), notableEvent, Lucanamarca massacre]
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A.
El Calabozo massacre
The El Calabozo massacre was a 1982 atrocity during the Salvadoran Civil War in which the U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion killed hundreds of civilians, becoming one of the conflict’s most infamous human rights abuses.
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B.
Tarata bombing
The Tarata bombing was a devastating 1992 car bomb attack in Lima, Peru, that killed dozens of civilians and became one of the most infamous acts of violence during the country’s internal conflict.
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C.
Santa Cruz massacre
The Santa Cruz massacre was a 1991 incident in Dili, East Timor, in which Indonesian security forces opened fire on peaceful pro-independence demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds and drawing global attention to East Timor’s struggle.
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D.
Massacre of August 2, 1810 in Quito
The Massacre of August 2, 1810 in Quito was a brutal Spanish crackdown in which colonial forces killed numerous supporters of the early independence movement, galvanizing resistance in what is now Ecuador.
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E.
El Mozote massacre
The El Mozote massacre was a 1981 atrocity in which Salvadoran government troops killed hundreds of civilians, becoming one of the most infamous human rights violations of the Salvadoran Civil 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: Lucanamarca massacre Target entity description: The Lucanamarca massacre was a brutal 1983 attack by Shining Path guerrillas on the Andean village of Lucanamarca in Peru, in which dozens of civilians were killed and which became one of the most infamous atrocities of the internal armed conflict.
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A.
El Calabozo massacre
The El Calabozo massacre was a 1982 atrocity during the Salvadoran Civil War in which the U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion killed hundreds of civilians, becoming one of the conflict’s most infamous human rights abuses.
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B.
Tarata bombing
The Tarata bombing was a devastating 1992 car bomb attack in Lima, Peru, that killed dozens of civilians and became one of the most infamous acts of violence during the country’s internal conflict.
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C.
Santa Cruz massacre
The Santa Cruz massacre was a 1991 incident in Dili, East Timor, in which Indonesian security forces opened fire on peaceful pro-independence demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds and drawing global attention to East Timor’s struggle.
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D.
Massacre of August 2, 1810 in Quito
The Massacre of August 2, 1810 in Quito was a brutal Spanish crackdown in which colonial forces killed numerous supporters of the early independence movement, galvanizing resistance in what is now Ecuador.
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E.
El Mozote massacre
The El Mozote massacre was a 1981 atrocity in which Salvadoran government troops killed hundreds of civilians, becoming one of the most infamous human rights violations of the Salvadoran Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
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