Maillé massacre
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The Maillé massacre was a World War II atrocity in which German troops killed over a hundred French civilians in the village of Maillé in August 1944.
All labels observed (1)
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| Maillé massacre canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15942120 — 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: Maillé massacre Context triple: [German reprisals against the French Resistance, notableEvent, Maillé massacre]
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A.
Tulle massacre
The Tulle massacre was a World War II atrocity in June 1944 in which German SS troops hanged and killed dozens of French civilians in the town of Tulle as a brutal reprisal against Resistance activities.
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B.
Ascq massacre
The Ascq massacre was a World War II atrocity in which German SS troops killed dozens of French civilians in the village of Ascq in northern France in 1944.
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C.
Massacre of Vassy
The Massacre of Vassy was a 1562 attack by French Catholic troops on Huguenot worshippers that sparked open civil war and is widely seen as the event that ignited the French Wars of Religion.
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D.
Speicher massacre
The Speicher massacre was a 2014 mass killing in Iraq in which ISIS militants executed hundreds of unarmed Iraqi air force cadets near Tikrit, making it one of the deadliest atrocities of the Iraq conflict.
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E.
Fontenay-le-Pesnel killings
The Fontenay-le-Pesnel killings were a World War II war crime in Normandy in which German forces executed captured Allied soldiers and civilians.
- 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: Maillé massacre Target entity description: The Maillé massacre was a World War II atrocity in which German troops killed over a hundred French civilians in the village of Maillé in August 1944.
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A.
Tulle massacre
The Tulle massacre was a World War II atrocity in June 1944 in which German SS troops hanged and killed dozens of French civilians in the town of Tulle as a brutal reprisal against Resistance activities.
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B.
Ascq massacre
The Ascq massacre was a World War II atrocity in which German SS troops killed dozens of French civilians in the village of Ascq in northern France in 1944.
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C.
Massacre of Vassy
The Massacre of Vassy was a 1562 attack by French Catholic troops on Huguenot worshippers that sparked open civil war and is widely seen as the event that ignited the French Wars of Religion.
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D.
Speicher massacre
The Speicher massacre was a 2014 mass killing in Iraq in which ISIS militants executed hundreds of unarmed Iraqi air force cadets near Tikrit, making it one of the deadliest atrocities of the Iraq conflict.
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E.
Fontenay-le-Pesnel killings
The Fontenay-le-Pesnel killings were a World War II war crime in Normandy in which German forces executed captured Allied soldiers and civilians.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.