Burning of the Custom House
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The Burning of the Custom House was a major Irish Republican Army operation in Dublin in 1921, in which the British administrative headquarters for Ireland was set on fire during the Irish War of Independence.
All labels observed (1)
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| Burning of the Custom House canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16940988 — 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: Burning of the Custom House Context triple: [Custom House attack (Dublin), alsoKnownAs, Burning of the Custom House]
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A.
Burning of Cork
The Burning of Cork was a devastating 1920 incident during the Irish War of Independence in which large parts of Cork city were destroyed and looted by British forces, including the Black and Tans, in reprisal for IRA activities.
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B.
Sack of Balbriggan
The Sack of Balbriggan was a notorious reprisal attack by British forces during the Irish War of Independence in 1920, in which much of the town of Balbriggan was burned and several civilians were killed.
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C.
shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin
The shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin was a pivotal early battle of the Irish Civil War in June 1922, when pro-Treaty forces bombarded anti-Treaty IRA occupiers in the city’s main courts complex, marking the conflict’s violent outbreak.
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D.
Fenian Rising of 1867
The Fenian Rising of 1867 was a failed Irish nationalist insurrection aimed at ending British rule and establishing an independent Irish republic.
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E.
Dublin and Monaghan bombings
The Dublin and Monaghan bombings were a series of coordinated car bomb attacks in the Republic of Ireland in May 1974 that killed 33 people and became one of the deadliest incidents of the Troubles.
- 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: Burning of the Custom House Target entity description: The Burning of the Custom House was a major Irish Republican Army operation in Dublin in 1921, in which the British administrative headquarters for Ireland was set on fire during the Irish War of Independence.
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A.
Burning of Cork
The Burning of Cork was a devastating 1920 incident during the Irish War of Independence in which large parts of Cork city were destroyed and looted by British forces, including the Black and Tans, in reprisal for IRA activities.
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B.
Sack of Balbriggan
The Sack of Balbriggan was a notorious reprisal attack by British forces during the Irish War of Independence in 1920, in which much of the town of Balbriggan was burned and several civilians were killed.
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C.
shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin
The shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin was a pivotal early battle of the Irish Civil War in June 1922, when pro-Treaty forces bombarded anti-Treaty IRA occupiers in the city’s main courts complex, marking the conflict’s violent outbreak.
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D.
Fenian Rising of 1867
The Fenian Rising of 1867 was a failed Irish nationalist insurrection aimed at ending British rule and establishing an independent Irish republic.
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E.
Dublin and Monaghan bombings
The Dublin and Monaghan bombings were a series of coordinated car bomb attacks in the Republic of Ireland in May 1974 that killed 33 people and became one of the deadliest incidents of the Troubles.
- F. None of above. chosen
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