Fort Robinson massacre
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The Fort Robinson massacre was a violent 1879 U.S. Army attack and subsequent deaths of Northern Cheyenne people imprisoned at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, during their attempt to escape confinement and return to their homeland.
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| Fort Robinson massacre canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12525181 — 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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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fort Robinson massacre Context triple: [Northern Cheyenne Exodus, hasPart, Fort Robinson massacre]
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Washita Massacre
The Washita Massacre was an 1868 U.S. Army attack led by George Armstrong Custer on a Southern Cheyenne village in present-day Oklahoma, resulting in the deaths of many Native American men, women, and children and becoming a symbol of the violence of the Indian Wars.
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Indian Creek massacre
The Indian Creek massacre was an 1832 attack during the Black Hawk War in which a group of Potawatomi and Sauk warriors killed and captured settlers near present-day Earlville, Illinois.
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Sand Creek Massacre
The Sand Creek Massacre was an 1864 attack in which Colorado U.S. volunteer cavalry brutally killed and mutilated a large number of Cheyenne and Arapaho people, many of them women and children, in one of the most infamous atrocities against Native Americans in U.S. history.
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Marais des Cygnes massacre
The Marais des Cygnes massacre was an 1858 attack in Kansas Territory in which pro-slavery militants executed a group of free-state men, becoming one of the most notorious episodes of violence in the Bleeding Kansas conflict.
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E.
Coushatta Massacre
The Coushatta Massacre was an 1874 Reconstruction-era attack in Louisiana in which members of the White League murdered Republican officeholders and freedmen to undermine Black political rights and restore white supremacist control.
- 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: Fort Robinson massacre Target entity description: The Fort Robinson massacre was a violent 1879 U.S. Army attack and subsequent deaths of Northern Cheyenne people imprisoned at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, during their attempt to escape confinement and return to their homeland.
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A.
Washita Massacre
The Washita Massacre was an 1868 U.S. Army attack led by George Armstrong Custer on a Southern Cheyenne village in present-day Oklahoma, resulting in the deaths of many Native American men, women, and children and becoming a symbol of the violence of the Indian Wars.
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B.
Indian Creek massacre
The Indian Creek massacre was an 1832 attack during the Black Hawk War in which a group of Potawatomi and Sauk warriors killed and captured settlers near present-day Earlville, Illinois.
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C.
Sand Creek Massacre
The Sand Creek Massacre was an 1864 attack in which Colorado U.S. volunteer cavalry brutally killed and mutilated a large number of Cheyenne and Arapaho people, many of them women and children, in one of the most infamous atrocities against Native Americans in U.S. history.
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D.
Marais des Cygnes massacre
The Marais des Cygnes massacre was an 1858 attack in Kansas Territory in which pro-slavery militants executed a group of free-state men, becoming one of the most notorious episodes of violence in the Bleeding Kansas conflict.
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E.
Coushatta Massacre
The Coushatta Massacre was an 1874 Reconstruction-era attack in Louisiana in which members of the White League murdered Republican officeholders and freedmen to undermine Black political rights and restore white supremacist control.
- F. None of above. chosen
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