Battle of Crossbarry
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The Battle of Crossbarry was a major engagement during the Irish War of Independence in March 1921, in which Tom Barry’s IRA flying column successfully ambushed and evaded a much larger British force in County Cork.
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| Battle of Crossbarry canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16421734 — 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: Battle of Crossbarry Context triple: [Crossbarry Ambush, alsoKnownAs, Battle of Crossbarry]
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Battle of Knocknacross
The Battle of Knocknacross, better known as the Battle of Dungan's Hill, was a major engagement of the Irish Confederate Wars in 1647 in which English Parliamentarian forces decisively defeated an Irish Confederate army in County Meath.
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Battle of Oulart Hill
The Battle of Oulart Hill was a key 1798 Irish Rebellion engagement in County Wexford where poorly armed Irish rebels won a decisive victory over British forces.
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C.
Battle of Benburb
The Battle of Benburb (1646) was a major Irish Confederate victory in Ulster, where Owen Roe O'Neill’s forces decisively defeated a Scottish Covenanter army, boosting the Confederate Catholic cause during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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D.
Battle of Clontibret
The Battle of Clontibret was a 1595 engagement in County Monaghan where Hugh O’Neill’s forces won an early major victory over English troops, helping to ignite the wider Nine Years’ War in Ireland.
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E.
Battle of Castlebar
The Battle of Castlebar was a 1798 engagement in County Mayo, Ireland, where a combined French and Irish rebel force routed a much larger British-led garrison during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
- 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: Battle of Crossbarry Target entity description: The Battle of Crossbarry was a major engagement during the Irish War of Independence in March 1921, in which Tom Barry’s IRA flying column successfully ambushed and evaded a much larger British force in County Cork.
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A.
Battle of Knocknacross
The Battle of Knocknacross, better known as the Battle of Dungan's Hill, was a major engagement of the Irish Confederate Wars in 1647 in which English Parliamentarian forces decisively defeated an Irish Confederate army in County Meath.
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B.
Battle of Oulart Hill
The Battle of Oulart Hill was a key 1798 Irish Rebellion engagement in County Wexford where poorly armed Irish rebels won a decisive victory over British forces.
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C.
Battle of Benburb
The Battle of Benburb (1646) was a major Irish Confederate victory in Ulster, where Owen Roe O'Neill’s forces decisively defeated a Scottish Covenanter army, boosting the Confederate Catholic cause during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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D.
Battle of Clontibret
The Battle of Clontibret was a 1595 engagement in County Monaghan where Hugh O’Neill’s forces won an early major victory over English troops, helping to ignite the wider Nine Years’ War in Ireland.
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E.
Battle of Castlebar
The Battle of Castlebar was a 1798 engagement in County Mayo, Ireland, where a combined French and Irish rebel force routed a much larger British-led garrison during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
- F. None of above. chosen
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