bombing of Air India Flight 182
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The bombing of Air India Flight 182 was a 1985 mid-air terrorist attack on a passenger jet off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 people on board and marking one of the deadliest aviation disasters linked to Sikh extremism.
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| bombing of Air India Flight 182 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17954794 — 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: bombing of Air India Flight 182 Context triple: [Punjab insurgency, hasNotableEvent, bombing of Air India Flight 182]
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Café Terminus bombing
The Café Terminus bombing was an 1894 anarchist attack in Paris in which a bomb was thrown into a crowded café near the Gare Saint-Lazare, killing and injuring multiple people.
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Nyanya bombings
The Nyanya bombings were deadly terrorist attacks near Abuja, Nigeria, in 2014, widely attributed to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram and emblematic of its violent insurgency.
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C.
Hafte Tir bombing
The Hafte Tir bombing was a 1981 terrorist attack in Tehran that killed dozens of senior Iranian officials and became a pivotal event in the early years of the Islamic Republic.
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D.
Himmel Street bombing
The Himmel Street bombing is the devastating air raid in Markus Zusak’s novel "The Book Thief" that destroys Liesel Meminger’s neighborhood and kills most of the people she loves.
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E.
Italicus Express bombing
The Italicus Express bombing was a deadly 1974 neo-fascist terrorist attack on a train in Italy, emblematic of the political violence and tension of the country’s Years of Lead.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: bombing of Air India Flight 182 Target entity description: The bombing of Air India Flight 182 was a 1985 mid-air terrorist attack on a passenger jet off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 people on board and marking one of the deadliest aviation disasters linked to Sikh extremism.
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A.
Café Terminus bombing
The Café Terminus bombing was an 1894 anarchist attack in Paris in which a bomb was thrown into a crowded café near the Gare Saint-Lazare, killing and injuring multiple people.
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B.
Nyanya bombings
The Nyanya bombings were deadly terrorist attacks near Abuja, Nigeria, in 2014, widely attributed to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram and emblematic of its violent insurgency.
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C.
Hafte Tir bombing
The Hafte Tir bombing was a 1981 terrorist attack in Tehran that killed dozens of senior Iranian officials and became a pivotal event in the early years of the Islamic Republic.
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D.
Himmel Street bombing
The Himmel Street bombing is the devastating air raid in Markus Zusak’s novel "The Book Thief" that destroys Liesel Meminger’s neighborhood and kills most of the people she loves.
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E.
Italicus Express bombing
The Italicus Express bombing was a deadly 1974 neo-fascist terrorist attack on a train in Italy, emblematic of the political violence and tension of the country’s Years of Lead.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.