Operation Thunderbolt
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Operation Thunderbolt was the 1976 Israeli commando raid on Entebbe Airport in Uganda to rescue hostages from a hijacked Air France flight.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Operation Thunderbolt canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2031932 — 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: Operation Thunderbolt Context triple: [Operation Entebbe, alsoKnownAs, Operation Thunderbolt]
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A.
Operation Whirlwind
Operation Whirlwind was the codename for the large-scale Soviet military intervention that crushed the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and reasserted Soviet control over Hungary.
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B.
Operation Galvanic
Operation Galvanic was the U.S. amphibious offensive in November 1943 that launched the Gilbert Islands campaign in the central Pacific, including the bloody Battle of Tarawa, during World War II.
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C.
Operation Crossbow
Operation Crossbow was a World War II Allied campaign of intelligence, bombing, and reconnaissance aimed at locating and destroying German V-weapon (V-1 and V-2) research, production, and launch sites.
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D.
Operation Strike
Operation Strike was a key Allied military operation during World War II’s Tunisian campaign that contributed to the final defeat of Axis forces in North Africa.
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E.
Operation Vulcan
Operation Vulcan was a late-World War II Allied offensive in Tunisia aimed at breaking the remaining Axis resistance and securing North 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: Operation Thunderbolt Target entity description: Operation Thunderbolt was the 1976 Israeli commando raid on Entebbe Airport in Uganda to rescue hostages from a hijacked Air France flight.
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A.
Operation Whirlwind
Operation Whirlwind was the codename for the large-scale Soviet military intervention that crushed the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and reasserted Soviet control over Hungary.
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B.
Operation Galvanic
Operation Galvanic was the U.S. amphibious offensive in November 1943 that launched the Gilbert Islands campaign in the central Pacific, including the bloody Battle of Tarawa, during World War II.
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C.
Operation Crossbow
Operation Crossbow was a World War II Allied campaign of intelligence, bombing, and reconnaissance aimed at locating and destroying German V-weapon (V-1 and V-2) research, production, and launch sites.
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D.
Operation Strike
Operation Strike was a key Allied military operation during World War II’s Tunisian campaign that contributed to the final defeat of Axis forces in North Africa.
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E.
Operation Vulcan
Operation Vulcan was a late-World War II Allied offensive in Tunisia aimed at breaking the remaining Axis resistance and securing North Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Operation Thunderbolt Description of subject: Operation Thunderbolt was the 1976 Israeli commando raid on Entebbe Airport in Uganda to rescue hostages from a hijacked Air France flight.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.