Declaration concerning asphyxiating gases
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The Declaration concerning asphyxiating gases is an 1899 international agreement that prohibited the use of asphyxiating or deleterious gases as weapons in warfare.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Declaration concerning asphyxiating gases canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4883860 — 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: Declaration concerning asphyxiating gases Context triple: [First Hague Peace Conference, adoptedDocument, Declaration concerning asphyxiating gases]
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A.
VX gas
VX gas is an extremely toxic, persistent nerve agent developed for chemical warfare, known for its rapid disruption of the nervous system even at very low exposure levels.
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B.
Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event is a catastrophic chemical cloud disaster in Don DeLillo's novel "White Noise" that forces the protagonist's family to confront their fears of death and modern technological hazards.
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C.
Gassed
Gassed is a large 1919 oil painting by John Singer Sargent depicting British soldiers temporarily blinded by mustard gas during World War I.
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D.
GAS
GAS (GNU Assembler) is the assembler component of the GNU toolchain, used to translate assembly language code into machine code for various computer architectures.
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E.
I Am Prepared to Die
"I Am Prepared to Die" is Nelson Mandela’s famous 1964 courtroom speech at the Rivonia Trial, in which he defended the anti-apartheid struggle and declared his readiness to die for a democratic South Africa.
- 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: Declaration concerning asphyxiating gases Target entity description: The Declaration concerning asphyxiating gases is an 1899 international agreement that prohibited the use of asphyxiating or deleterious gases as weapons in warfare.
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A.
VX gas
VX gas is an extremely toxic, persistent nerve agent developed for chemical warfare, known for its rapid disruption of the nervous system even at very low exposure levels.
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B.
Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event is a catastrophic chemical cloud disaster in Don DeLillo's novel "White Noise" that forces the protagonist's family to confront their fears of death and modern technological hazards.
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C.
Gassed
Gassed is a large 1919 oil painting by John Singer Sargent depicting British soldiers temporarily blinded by mustard gas during World War I.
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D.
GAS
GAS (GNU Assembler) is the assembler component of the GNU toolchain, used to translate assembly language code into machine code for various computer architectures.
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E.
I Am Prepared to Die
"I Am Prepared to Die" is Nelson Mandela’s famous 1964 courtroom speech at the Rivonia Trial, in which he defended the anti-apartheid struggle and declared his readiness to die for a democratic South Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
arms control agreement
ⓘ
international agreement ⓘ treaty ⓘ |
| adoptedAt | First Hague Peace Conference ⓘ |
| adoptedBy | states participating in the First Hague Peace Conference ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
limit methods of warfare
ⓘ
protect combatants from chemical weapons ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Hague Declaration (IV, 2) concerning asphyxiating gases
ⓘ
Hague Declaration concerning asphyxiating gases ⓘ |
| appliesTo | international armed conflict ⓘ |
| category |
1899 in international relations
ⓘ
Arms control treaties ⓘ Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 ⓘ |
| concerns | means and methods of warfare ⓘ |
| dateOfAdoption | 29 July 1899 ⓘ |
| enteredIntoForceInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| hasEffectOn | customary international humanitarian law ⓘ |
| hasLegalStatus | binding on its contracting parties ⓘ |
| hasNumberWithinHagueInstruments | IV, 2 ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
to codify restrictions on new weapons technologies
ⓘ
to mitigate the horrors of war ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfWeaponAddressed |
asphyxiating gases
ⓘ
chemical weapons ⓘ deleterious gases ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | one of the earliest international agreements restricting chemical warfare ⓘ |
| inspired | later chemical weapons prohibitions ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Hague law
ⓘ
linked to:
Hague Law
|
| languageOfDocument |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| legalDomain |
international humanitarian law
ⓘ
law of armed conflict ⓘ |
| negotiatedAt | First Hague Peace Conference ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hague Conventions of 1899
ⓘ
linked to:
Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907
|
| placeOfOrigin | Netherlands ⓘ |
| prohibits | use of projectiles whose sole object is the diffusion of asphyxiating or deleterious gases ⓘ |
| prohibitsUseOf |
gas projectiles with asphyxiating effects
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gas projectiles with deleterious effects ⓘ |
| regulates | use of asphyxiating gases in armed conflict ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Chemical Weapons Convention
ⓘ
Geneva Protocol of 1925 ⓘ
linked to:
Geneva Protocol
|
| signedAt | The Hague ⓘ |
| signedInYear | 1899 ⓘ |
| subject |
laws of war
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prohibition of asphyxiating gases in warfare ⓘ |
| timePeriod | pre–World War I ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Declaration concerning asphyxiating gases Description of subject: The Declaration concerning asphyxiating gases is an 1899 international agreement that prohibited the use of asphyxiating or deleterious gases as weapons in warfare.
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