February 28 Incident
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The February 28 Incident was a 1947 anti-government uprising in Taiwan and its brutal suppression by the Kuomintang authorities, marking a pivotal and traumatic event in Taiwanese history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| February 28 Incident canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5985772 — 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: February 28 Incident Context triple: [Chief Executive of Taiwan Province, significantEventDuringTenure, February 28 Incident]
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31 March Incident
The 31 March Incident was a 1909 counterrevolutionary uprising in the Ottoman Empire, led by conservative and religious factions in Istanbul against the Young Turk constitutional regime.
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B.
September 18 Incident
The September 18 Incident was a staged 1931 explosion by the Japanese military near Mukden used as a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria, marking a key escalation in Japanese aggression in China before World War II.
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C.
May 15 Incident
The May 15 Incident was a 1932 coup attempt in Japan in which young naval officers and right-wing extremists assassinated Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi, marking a major step toward militarist rule.
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D.
February 26 Incident
The February 26 Incident was a 1936 attempted coup d'état in Tokyo led by young Imperial Japanese Army officers seeking to purge the government and military leadership in favor of a more radical, militarist regime.
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E.
April 12 Incident
The April 12 Incident was a pivotal 1927 event in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War, when Chiang Kai-shek’s forces violently purged Communists and labor activists from the Nationalist movement, triggering a major political split in China.
- 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: February 28 Incident Target entity description: The February 28 Incident was a 1947 anti-government uprising in Taiwan and its brutal suppression by the Kuomintang authorities, marking a pivotal and traumatic event in Taiwanese history.
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A.
31 March Incident
The 31 March Incident was a 1909 counterrevolutionary uprising in the Ottoman Empire, led by conservative and religious factions in Istanbul against the Young Turk constitutional regime.
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B.
September 18 Incident
The September 18 Incident was a staged 1931 explosion by the Japanese military near Mukden used as a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria, marking a key escalation in Japanese aggression in China before World War II.
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C.
May 15 Incident
The May 15 Incident was a 1932 coup attempt in Japan in which young naval officers and right-wing extremists assassinated Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi, marking a major step toward militarist rule.
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D.
February 26 Incident
The February 26 Incident was a 1936 attempted coup d'état in Tokyo led by young Imperial Japanese Army officers seeking to purge the government and military leadership in favor of a more radical, militarist regime.
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E.
April 12 Incident
The April 12 Incident was a pivotal 1927 event in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War, when Chiang Kai-shek’s forces violently purged Communists and labor activists from the Nationalist movement, triggering a major political split in China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anti-government uprising
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historical event ⓘ massacre ⓘ political repression event ⓘ |
| aftermath |
decades of official censorship about the incident
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taboo on public discussion in Taiwan for many years ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
2-28 Incident
NERFINISHED
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228 Incident NERFINISHED ⓘ February 28 Massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| apologyBy |
President Lee Teng-hui
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
subsequent Taiwanese presidents ⓘ |
| cause |
conflict between local Taiwanese and Kuomintang administration
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corruption in postwar administration ⓘ economic mismanagement by Kuomintang authorities ⓘ shooting of a civilian by Monopoly Bureau agents ⓘ social tensions after end of Japanese rule ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | 228 Peace Memorial Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commemoratedOn | February 28 ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Republic of China ⓘ |
| endDate | 1947-03 ⓘ |
| estimatedDeaths |
between 10,000 and 30,000
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thousands ⓘ |
| influenced |
Taiwan independence movement
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Taiwanese democracy movement ⓘ transitional justice efforts in Taiwan ⓘ |
| legalRedress | compensation laws for victims and families in Taiwan ⓘ |
| location |
Taipei
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainRegion |
Kaohsiung
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Keelung NERFINISHED ⓘ Taichung NERFINISHED ⓘ Tainan NERFINISHED ⓘ Taipei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memorial |
228 Peace Memorial Park in Taipei
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
February 28 Incident Memorial Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposingForce |
Kuomintang authorities
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Republic of China Army NERFINISHED ⓘ Taiwanese civilians ⓘ local Taiwanese elites ⓘ |
| peakDate | 1947-02-28 ⓘ |
| perpetrator |
Kuomintang government
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Republic of China military NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalSignificance |
key reference point in debates over Taiwan’s national identity
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pivotal event in modern Taiwanese history ⓘ symbol of authoritarian repression in Taiwan ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | major human rights tragedy ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Taiwanese government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| result |
beginning of White Terror period in Taiwan
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deep ethnic tensions between mainlanders and native Taiwanese ⓘ imposition of martial law in Taiwan ⓘ large-scale civilian casualties ⓘ long-term political repression in Taiwan ⓘ strengthening of Taiwanese identity ⓘ suppression of local self-governance movements ⓘ |
| startDate | 1947-02-27 ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Chinese Civil War period
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post-World War II era ⓘ |
| topicOf |
documentary films
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literary works ⓘ numerous historical studies ⓘ |
| triggerEvent | assault on a female cigarette vendor in Taipei ⓘ |
| victim |
Taiwanese civilians
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Taiwanese intellectuals ⓘ local political leaders ⓘ students ⓘ |
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: February 28 Incident Description of subject: The February 28 Incident was a 1947 anti-government uprising in Taiwan and its brutal suppression by the Kuomintang authorities, marking a pivotal and traumatic event in Taiwanese history.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chen Yi