Reçak
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Reçak is a village in Kosovo internationally known as the site of the 1999 Račak massacre during the Kosovo War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reçak canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3763281 — 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: Reçak Context triple: [Račak massacre, toponymInAlbanian, Reçak]
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A.
Rechila
Rechila was a 5th-century king of the Suebi in Gallaecia, known for expanding and consolidating their kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula.
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B.
Kökeqota
Kökeqota is a historic city in what is now Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, that served as the principal political and administrative center of the Northern Yuan dynasty after the fall of the Yuan in China.
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C.
Cumalıkızık
Cumalıkızık is a well-preserved historic Ottoman village near Bursa in Turkey, renowned for its traditional timber-and-stone houses and cobbled streets.
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D.
Wukari
Wukari is a historic town in present-day Taraba State, Nigeria, long associated with the Jukun people and the traditional Wukari Federation.
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E.
Ovezande
Ovezande is a small village in the municipality of Borsele in the Dutch province of Zeeland, known for its rural character and agricultural surroundings.
- 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: Reçak Target entity description: Reçak is a village in Kosovo internationally known as the site of the 1999 Račak massacre during the Kosovo War.
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A.
Rechila
Rechila was a 5th-century king of the Suebi in Gallaecia, known for expanding and consolidating their kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula.
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B.
Kökeqota
Kökeqota is a historic city in what is now Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, that served as the principal political and administrative center of the Northern Yuan dynasty after the fall of the Yuan in China.
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C.
Cumalıkızık
Cumalıkızık is a well-preserved historic Ottoman village near Bursa in Turkey, renowned for its traditional timber-and-stone houses and cobbled streets.
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D.
Wukari
Wukari is a historic town in present-day Taraba State, Nigeria, long associated with the Jukun people and the traditional Wukari Federation.
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E.
Ovezande
Ovezande is a small village in the municipality of Borsele in the Dutch province of Zeeland, known for its rural character and agricultural surroundings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| conflict | Kosovo War ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 42.4333°N 21.0333°E ⓘ |
| country | Kosovo ⓘ |
| countryClaimedBy |
Kosovo
ⓘ
surface form:
Republic of Kosovo
Serbia ⓘ
surface form:
Republic of Serbia
|
| ethnicMajority | Albanians ⓘ |
| eventLocationFor | Račak massacre ⓘ |
| governedBy | Municipality of Shtime ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Račak
ⓘ
surface form:
Racak
Račak ⓘ |
| hasDemographicCharacteristic | predominantly Albanian population ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | turning point in international perception of Kosovo War ⓘ |
| hasInternationalAttentionFor |
human rights violations
ⓘ
war crimes allegations ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
Shtime municipality
ⓘ
surface form:
local government of Shtime
|
| hasNameInLanguage |
Račak@sr
ⓘ
Reçak@sq ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfSettlement | rural settlement ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Račak massacre
ⓘ
surface form:
1999 Račak massacre
Račak massacre ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Albanian
ⓘ
Serbian ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Kosovo ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity |
Municipality of Shtime
ⓘ
surface form:
Shtime municipality
Štimlje municipality ⓘ |
| locatedInFormerEntity |
Yugoslavia
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia ⓘ
surface form:
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
|
| locatedInGeopoliticalContext | disputed territory of Kosovo ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Ferizaj District ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Ferizaj
ⓘ
Shtime ⓘ |
| notablePeriod | January 1999 ⓘ |
| partOfEthnographicRegion | Kosovo ⓘ |
| partOfHistoricalConflict |
Kosovo War
ⓘ
surface form:
Kosovo conflict
|
| significantEvent |
Račak massacre
ⓘ
mass killing of Albanian civilians in 1999 ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
international investigations of 1999 killings
ⓘ
reports by OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Reçak Description of subject: Reçak is a village in Kosovo internationally known as the site of the 1999 Račak massacre during the Kosovo War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.