La Cantuta massacre
E1181989
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The La Cantuta massacre was a notorious 1992 extrajudicial killing of students and a professor by a Peruvian death squad, emblematic of the human rights abuses committed during Peru’s internal armed conflict.
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| La Cantuta massacre canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15792486 — 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: La Cantuta massacre Context triple: [Peruvian civil conflict (1980s–1990s), notableEvent, La Cantuta massacre]
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A.
Barrios Altos massacre
The Barrios Altos massacre was a notorious 1991 extrajudicial killing of civilians in Lima by a Peruvian death squad, emblematic of the human rights abuses committed during Peru’s internal armed conflict.
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B.
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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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.
Masacre del 2 de agosto
Masacre del 2 de agosto is the name given to the brutal repression and killing of Quito patriots by Spanish colonial forces on August 2, 1810, a key event in Ecuador’s struggle for independence.
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E.
Lucanamarca massacre
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.
- 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: La Cantuta massacre Target entity description: The La Cantuta massacre was a notorious 1992 extrajudicial killing of students and a professor by a Peruvian death squad, emblematic of the human rights abuses committed during Peru’s internal armed conflict.
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A.
Barrios Altos massacre
The Barrios Altos massacre was a notorious 1991 extrajudicial killing of civilians in Lima by a Peruvian death squad, emblematic of the human rights abuses committed during Peru’s internal armed conflict.
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B.
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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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.
Masacre del 2 de agosto
Masacre del 2 de agosto is the name given to the brutal repression and killing of Quito patriots by Spanish colonial forces on August 2, 1810, a key event in Ecuador’s struggle for independence.
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E.
Lucanamarca massacre
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.