GenocideConvention1948

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United Nations convention criminal law treaty human rights treaty international treaty

GenocideConvention1948 refers to the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the first international treaty to define and criminalize genocide under international law.

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All labels observed (24)

Label	Occurrences
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide	57
Genocide Convention	8
Article II of the Genocide Convention	3
Article I of the Genocide Convention	2
Article III of the Genocide Convention	2
Genocide Convention of 1948	2
Article 10 of the Genocide Convention	1
Article 4 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide	1
Article 5 of the Genocide Convention	1
Article 7 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide	1
Article I (Genocide Convention)	1
Article II (Genocide Convention)	1
Article II of the 1948 Genocide Convention	1
Article III (Genocide Convention)	1
Article III of the 1948 Genocide Convention	1
Article IV of the Genocide Convention	1
Article VI (Genocide Convention)	1
Article VI of the Genocide Convention	1
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on 12 January 1951	1
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948	1
Genocide Convention adoption resolution	1
Genocide Convention, Article III	1
GenocideConvention1948 canonical	1
UNGenocideConvention	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14138 — 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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Target entity: GenocideConvention1948
Context triple: [Holocaust, followedBy, GenocideConvention1948]

A. Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered six million Jews and millions of other targeted groups across Europe.
B. NurembergLaws
The Nuremberg Laws were a set of antisemitic racial laws enacted by Nazi Germany in 1935 that stripped Jews of citizenship and laid crucial legal groundwork for their systematic persecution during the Holocaust.
C. Nuremberg trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of landmark military tribunals held after World War II to prosecute leading Nazi officials for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace.
D. WannseeConference
The Wannsee Conference was a 1942 meeting of senior Nazi officials in Berlin where they formalized plans for the systematic genocide of European Jews known as the Holocaust.
E. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a landmark 1948 United Nations document that sets out fundamental human rights and freedoms to be universally protected.
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: GenocideConvention1948
Target entity description: GenocideConvention1948 refers to the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the first international treaty to define and criminalize genocide under international law.

A. Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered six million Jews and millions of other targeted groups across Europe.
B. NurembergLaws
The Nuremberg Laws were a set of antisemitic racial laws enacted by Nazi Germany in 1935 that stripped Jews of citizenship and laid crucial legal groundwork for their systematic persecution during the Holocaust.
C. Nuremberg trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of landmark military tribunals held after World War II to prosecute leading Nazi officials for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace.
D. WannseeConference
The Wannsee Conference was a 1942 meeting of senior Nazi officials in Berlin where they formalized plans for the systematic genocide of European Jews known as the Holocaust.
E. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a landmark 1948 United Nations document that sets out fundamental human rights and freedoms to be universally protected.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (73)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United Nations convention ⓘ criminal law treaty ⓘ human rights treaty ⓘ international treaty ⓘ
adoptedBy	United Nations General Assembly ⓘ
adoptionDate	1948-12-09 ⓘ
adoptionPlace	Paris ⓘ surface form: Paris, France
appliesToPersons	constitutionally responsible rulers ⓘ private individuals ⓘ public officials ⓘ
articleCount	19 ⓘ
containsArticle	Article I ⓘ Article II ⓘ Article III ⓘ Article IV ⓘ Article IX ⓘ Article V ⓘ Article VI ⓘ Article VII ⓘ Article VIII ⓘ Article X ⓘ Article XI ⓘ Article XII ⓘ Article XIII ⓘ Article XIV ⓘ Article XIII ⓘ surface form: Article XIX Article IX ⓘ surface form: Article XV Article XVI ⓘ Article XVII ⓘ Article XVIII ⓘ
crimeListedInArticleIII	attempt to commit genocide ⓘ complicity in genocide ⓘ conspiracy to commit genocide ⓘ direct and public incitement to commit genocide ⓘ genocide ⓘ
defines	crime of genocide ⓘ
definesInArticleII	acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group ⓘ
depositary	Secretary-General of the United Nations ⓘ
disputeSettlement	disputes submitted to the International Court of Justice under Article IX ⓘ
entryIntoForceDate	1951-01-12 ⓘ
field	international criminal law ⓘ international human rights law ⓘ international humanitarian law ⓘ
fullName	GenocideConvention1948 self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
influenced	Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court ⓘ
inspiredBy	Raphael Lemkin’s concept of genocide ⓘ
jurisdictionProvision	persons charged with genocide shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the state where the act was committed or by an international penal tribunal ⓘ
language	Arabic ⓘ Chinese ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
legalNature	codification of customary international law principles on genocide ⓘ multilateral treaty ⓘ
listsAsGenocidalAct	causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group ⓘ deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group’s physical destruction in whole or in part ⓘ forcibly transferring children of the group to another group ⓘ imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group ⓘ killing members of the group ⓘ
obligationInArticleI	states undertake to prevent genocide ⓘ states undertake to punish genocide ⓘ
openedForSignatureDate	1948-12-11 ⓘ
purpose	to prevent and punish the crime of genocide ⓘ to recognize genocide as a crime under international law ⓘ
relatedTo	Universal Declaration of Human Rights ⓘ
requiresDomesticLegislation	states must enact necessary legislation to give effect to the convention ⓘ
scope	applies in time of peace and in time of war ⓘ
shortName	GenocideConvention1948 self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Genocide Convention
status	in force ⓘ
subjectMatter	prevention of genocide ⓘ punishment of genocide ⓘ
UNGeneralAssemblyResolutionNumber	Resolution 260 A (III) ⓘ

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Referenced by (92)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nazi war crimes → ledTo → GenocideConvention1948 ⓘ

this entity surface form: Genocide Convention

Nuremberg Principles → relatedTo → GenocideConvention1948 ⓘ

this entity surface form: Genocide Convention

Article VIII → partOf → GenocideConvention1948 ⓘ

subject surface form: Article VIII (Genocide Convention)