The Terror
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The Terror is the common name for the period of extreme political violence and mass executions during the French Revolution, particularly associated with the rule of the Committee of Public Safety and Robespierre.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Terror canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1270403 — 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: The Terror Context triple: [Reign of Terror, alsoKnownAs, The Terror]
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A.
The Terror
The Terror is a historical drama television series that blends supernatural horror with the real-life doomed Arctic expedition of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in the mid-19th century.
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B.
The Terror
"The Terror" is a 1927 crime thriller play by Edgar Wallace that blends mystery and horror elements in a story about a series of murders in an old country house.
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C.
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 silent drama film, one of the earliest Hollywood movies shot in Technicolor, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
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D.
The Valley of Ghosts
The Valley of Ghosts is a mystery novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, known for its suspenseful crime plot and atmospheric setting.
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E.
The North Water
The North Water is a British television drama miniseries adapted from Ian McGuire’s novel, following a disgraced surgeon on a brutal 19th-century whaling expedition in the Arctic.
- 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: The Terror Target entity description: The Terror is the common name for the period of extreme political violence and mass executions during the French Revolution, particularly associated with the rule of the Committee of Public Safety and Robespierre.
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A.
The Terror
The Terror is a historical drama television series that blends supernatural horror with the real-life doomed Arctic expedition of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in the mid-19th century.
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B.
The Terror
"The Terror" is a 1927 crime thriller play by Edgar Wallace that blends mystery and horror elements in a story about a series of murders in an old country house.
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C.
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 silent drama film, one of the earliest Hollywood movies shot in Technicolor, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
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D.
The Valley of Ghosts
The Valley of Ghosts is a mystery novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, known for its suspenseful crime plot and atmospheric setting.
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E.
The North Water
The North Water is a British television drama miniseries adapted from Ian McGuire’s novel, following a disgraced surgeon on a brutal 19th-century whaling expedition in the Arctic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
episode of the French Revolution
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historical period ⓘ political repression campaign ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Reign of Terror ⓘ |
| cause |
economic crisis in revolutionary France
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external war against European monarchies ⓘ fear of foreign invasion ⓘ internal counter-revolutionary threats ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
centralization of power
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extreme political violence ⓘ mass executions by guillotine ⓘ suspension of civil liberties ⓘ use of terror as instrument of policy ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| endCause |
coup of 9 Thermidor Year II
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fall of Robespierre ⓘ |
| endTime | 1794 ⓘ |
| executionMethod | guillotine ⓘ |
| followedBy | Thermidorian Reaction ⓘ |
| hasPart |
guillotine executions
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mass executions ⓘ political purges ⓘ revolutionary tribunals ⓘ summary trials ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
key phase in radicalization of the French Revolution
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symbol of revolutionary extremism ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Law of 22 Prairial
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Law of Suspects ⓘ emergency powers of the Committee of Public Safety ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | French Revolution ⓘ |
| mainLocation |
French provinces
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Paris ⓘ |
| numberOfVictims | tens of thousands ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Girondins
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moderate revolutionaries ⓘ royalists ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
Montagnard faction
ⓘ
linked to:
Montagnards
radical Jacobinism ⓘ |
| significantOrganization |
Committee of General Security
ⓘ
linked to:
Committee of Public Safety
Committee of Public Safety ⓘ National Convention ⓘ Revolutionary Tribunal ⓘ |
| significantPerson |
Bertrand Barère
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Georges Couthon ⓘ Georges Danton ⓘ Jean-Paul Marat ⓘ Louis Antoine de Saint-Just ⓘ Maximilien Robespierre ⓘ |
| significantPlace |
Committee of Public Safety
ⓘ
Place de la Révolution ⓘ Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris ⓘ
linked to:
Revolutionary Tribunal
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| startTime | 1793 ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Terror Description of subject: The Terror is the common name for the period of extreme political violence and mass executions during the French Revolution, particularly associated with the rule of the Committee of Public Safety and Robespierre.
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