1996–97 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima
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The 1996–97 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima was a high-profile standoff in which Peruvian rebels seized hundreds of hostages at a diplomatic reception, leading to a months-long siege and a dramatic military rescue operation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1996–97 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15792566 — 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: 1996–97 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima Context triple: [Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, knownFor, 1996–97 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima]
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A.
Mayaguez incident
The Mayaguez incident was a 1975 confrontation between the United States and Cambodia in which U.S. forces attempted to rescue the crew of the seized American merchant ship SS Mayaguez, often regarded as one of the last official battles of the Vietnam War era.
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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.
2001 Kodori crisis
The 2001 Kodori crisis was an armed confrontation in the Kodori Gorge in Abkhazia, involving Georgian forces, local militias, and Chechen fighters, which escalated tensions in the Georgian–Abkhaz conflict.
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D.
Chichijima incident
The Chichijima incident was a World War II war crime in which Japanese soldiers executed and cannibalized captured American airmen on the Pacific island of Chichijima in 1944–1945.
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E.
Peruvian economic crisis of the 1980s
The Peruvian economic crisis of the 1980s was a period of severe hyperinflation, debt default, and economic collapse that devastated living standards and undermined political stability in Peru.
- 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: 1996–97 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima Target entity description: The 1996–97 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima was a high-profile standoff in which Peruvian rebels seized hundreds of hostages at a diplomatic reception, leading to a months-long siege and a dramatic military rescue operation.
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A.
Mayaguez incident
The Mayaguez incident was a 1975 confrontation between the United States and Cambodia in which U.S. forces attempted to rescue the crew of the seized American merchant ship SS Mayaguez, often regarded as one of the last official battles of the Vietnam War era.
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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.
2001 Kodori crisis
The 2001 Kodori crisis was an armed confrontation in the Kodori Gorge in Abkhazia, involving Georgian forces, local militias, and Chechen fighters, which escalated tensions in the Georgian–Abkhaz conflict.
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D.
Chichijima incident
The Chichijima incident was a World War II war crime in which Japanese soldiers executed and cannibalized captured American airmen on the Pacific island of Chichijima in 1944–1945.
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E.
Peruvian economic crisis of the 1980s
The Peruvian economic crisis of the 1980s was a period of severe hyperinflation, debt default, and economic collapse that devastated living standards and undermined political stability in Peru.
- F. None of above. chosen
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