Srebrenica
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Srebrenica is a town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina known as the site of the 1995 massacre of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys during the Bosnian War, an event widely recognized as genocide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Srebrenica canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4836644 — 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: Srebrenica Context triple: [United Nations Protection Force, safeArea, Srebrenica]
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A.
Srebrenica genocide
The Srebrenica genocide was the July 1995 mass killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces during the Bosnian War, recognized as the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.
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B.
Jasenica
Jasenica is a river in central Serbia that flows through the Šumadija region before joining the Velika Morava.
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C.
Banja Luka
Banja Luka is the second-largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the administrative center of the Republika Srpska entity, known for its riverside setting, Austro-Hungarian architecture, and cultural life.
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D.
Mladenovac
Mladenovac is a suburban municipality and town located in the southern part of the City of Belgrade, Serbia.
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E.
Račak massacre
The Račak massacre was a 1999 killing of ethnic Albanian civilians in the village of Račak in Kosovo by Serbian security forces, widely seen as a pivotal atrocity that galvanized international support for NATO intervention.
- 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: Srebrenica Target entity description: Srebrenica is a town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina known as the site of the 1995 massacre of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys during the Bosnian War, an event widely recognized as genocide.
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A.
Srebrenica genocide
The Srebrenica genocide was the July 1995 mass killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces during the Bosnian War, recognized as the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.
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B.
Jasenica
Jasenica is a river in central Serbia that flows through the Šumadija region before joining the Velika Morava.
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C.
Banja Luka
Banja Luka is the second-largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the administrative center of the Republika Srpska entity, known for its riverside setting, Austro-Hungarian architecture, and cultural life.
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D.
Mladenovac
Mladenovac is a suburban municipality and town located in the southern part of the City of Belgrade, Serbia.
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E.
Račak massacre
The Račak massacre was a 1999 killing of ethnic Albanian civilians in the village of Račak in Kosovo by Serbian security forces, widely seen as a pivotal atrocity that galvanized international support for NATO intervention.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| administrativeCenterOf | Municipality of Srebrenica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Dutchbat peacekeeping contingent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commandersInvolved | Ratko Mladić NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commemoratedOn | 11 July ⓘ |
| commemorationName | Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Bosnian War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Bosnia and Herzegovina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eventDate | July 1995 ⓘ |
| governedBy | municipal council ⓘ |
| hasCemetery | Potočari genocide victims cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicCommunity |
Bosniaks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Serbs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMemorial | Srebrenica–Potočari Memorial and Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelief | mountainous terrain ⓘ |
| hasResource | mineral springs ⓘ |
| historicallyKnownFor | silver mining ⓘ |
| historicalPopulation | majority Bosniak before Bosnian War ⓘ |
| knownFor |
1995 massacre of Bosniak men and boys
ⓘ
Srebrenica genocide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Balkan Peninsula
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Birač region NERFINISHED ⓘ Drina River valley NERFINISHED ⓘ Europe ⓘ Podrinje region NERFINISHED ⓘ Republika Srpska NERFINISHED ⓘ eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Potočari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfVictimsEstimate | over 8,000 ⓘ |
| officialLanguage |
Bosnian
ⓘ
Croatian NERFINISHED ⓘ Serbian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Bosnian War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| perpetratorForGenocide | Army of Republika Srpska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalEntity | Republika Srpska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| population | several thousand inhabitants ⓘ |
| postWarIssue |
return of displaced persons
ⓘ
war crimes trials ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | site of genocide ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
International Court of Justice
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateEntity | Bosnia and Herzegovina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | municipality ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Central European Summer Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UNStatusDuringWar | UN-declared safe area ⓘ |
| victimGroup | Bosniak men and boys ⓘ |
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: Srebrenica Description of subject: Srebrenica is a town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina known as the site of the 1995 massacre of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys during the Bosnian War, an event widely recognized as genocide.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.