Massacre of Novgorod

Target entity: Massacre of Novgorod
Context triple: [Oprichnina, notableEvent, Massacre of Novgorod]

• A. Baturyn massacre
  The Baturyn massacre was a brutal 1708 Russian Imperial assault and mass killing of the inhabitants of the Cossack capital Baturyn during the Great Northern War, carried out in retaliation for Hetman Ivan Mazepa’s alliance with Sweden.
• B. Massacre of Verden
  The Massacre of Verden was a brutal 8th-century execution of thousands of Saxons ordered by Charlemagne during his campaigns to subdue and Christianize the Saxon people.
• C. Stockholm Bloodbath
  The Stockholm Bloodbath was a 1520 mass execution of Swedish nobles and clergy in Stockholm, ordered by Danish King Christian II, which helped trigger the end of the Kalmar Union and the rise of Swedish independence.
• D. Massacre of Vassy
  The Massacre of Vassy was a 1562 attack by French Catholic troops on Huguenot worshippers that sparked open civil war and is widely seen as the event that ignited the French Wars of Religion.
• E. Khmelnytsky Uprising massacres
  The Khmelnytsky Uprising massacres were a series of brutal 17th-century pogroms in which Cossack and peasant forces slaughtered large numbers of Jews and Polish nobles across the territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Massacre of Novgorod
Target entity description: The Massacre of Novgorod was a brutal 1570 campaign of mass killings and repression ordered by Tsar Ivan the Terrible against the citizens of Novgorod, devastating the city’s population and wealth.

• A. Baturyn massacre
  The Baturyn massacre was a brutal 1708 Russian Imperial assault and mass killing of the inhabitants of the Cossack capital Baturyn during the Great Northern War, carried out in retaliation for Hetman Ivan Mazepa’s alliance with Sweden.
• B. Massacre of Verden
  The Massacre of Verden was a brutal 8th-century execution of thousands of Saxons ordered by Charlemagne during his campaigns to subdue and Christianize the Saxon people.
• C. Stockholm Bloodbath
  The Stockholm Bloodbath was a 1520 mass execution of Swedish nobles and clergy in Stockholm, ordered by Danish King Christian II, which helped trigger the end of the Kalmar Union and the rise of Swedish independence.
• D. Massacre of Vassy
  The Massacre of Vassy was a 1562 attack by French Catholic troops on Huguenot worshippers that sparked open civil war and is widely seen as the event that ignited the French Wars of Religion.
• E. Khmelnytsky Uprising massacres
  The Khmelnytsky Uprising massacres were a series of brutal 17th-century pogroms in which Cossack and peasant forces slaughtered large numbers of Jews and Polish nobles across the territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• F. None of above. chosen