Operation Aqueduct
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Operation Aqueduct was a series of U.S. nuclear weapons tests conducted during the Cold War as part of the broader American nuclear testing program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Operation Aqueduct canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4080598 — 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 Aqueduct Context triple: [United States nuclear weapons testing, hasPart, Operation Aqueduct]
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A.
Operation Piranha
Operation Piranha was a U.S. Marine Corps amphibious assault and search-and-destroy operation conducted in September 1965 during the Vietnam War, aimed at rooting out Viet Cong forces in the Batangan Peninsula.
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B.
Operation Diadem
Operation Diadem was a major Allied offensive in Italy during World War II aimed at breaking the German Gustav Line and enabling the liberation of Rome.
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C.
Operation Storax
Operation Storax was a series of underground nuclear tests conducted by the United States in the early 1960s as part of its Cold War nuclear weapons development program.
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D.
Operation Fulcrum
Operation Fulcrum was a U.S. nuclear weapons test series conducted as part of the broader American nuclear testing program during the Cold War.
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E.
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.
- 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 Aqueduct Target entity description: Operation Aqueduct was a series of U.S. nuclear weapons tests conducted during the Cold War as part of the broader American nuclear testing program.
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A.
Operation Piranha
Operation Piranha was a U.S. Marine Corps amphibious assault and search-and-destroy operation conducted in September 1965 during the Vietnam War, aimed at rooting out Viet Cong forces in the Batangan Peninsula.
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B.
Operation Diadem
Operation Diadem was a major Allied offensive in Italy during World War II aimed at breaking the German Gustav Line and enabling the liberation of Rome.
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C.
Operation Storax
Operation Storax was a series of underground nuclear tests conducted by the United States in the early 1960s as part of its Cold War nuclear weapons development program.
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D.
Operation Fulcrum
Operation Fulcrum was a U.S. nuclear weapons test series conducted as part of the broader American nuclear testing program during the Cold War.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States military operation
ⓘ
nuclear weapons test series ⓘ |
| classification | formerly classified military program ⓘ |
| conductedBy |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| conflict | Cold War ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | Cold War ⓘ |
| goal |
improve reliability of nuclear warheads
ⓘ
validate nuclear weapon designs ⓘ |
| hasPart | individual nuclear test detonations ⓘ |
| location |
Nevada Test Site
ⓘ
linked to:
Nevada National Security Site
|
| natureOfWork | military ⓘ |
| operator |
United States Atomic Energy Commission
ⓘ
United States Department of Defense ⓘ
linked to:
Department of Defense
|
| partOf |
American nuclear testing program
ⓘ
United States nuclear weapons testing program ⓘ
linked to:
United States nuclear weapons testing
|
| partOfSeries | U.S. underground nuclear test series ⓘ |
| purpose |
weapons development
ⓘ
weapons effects research ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
United States nuclear weapons program
ⓘ
nuclear arms race ⓘ |
| risk |
environmental impact
ⓘ
health hazards from radiation ⓘ radioactive contamination ⓘ |
| subject | nuclear weapons ⓘ |
| testEnvironment |
underground shafts
ⓘ
underground tunnels ⓘ |
| testType | underground nuclear test ⓘ |
| weaponTypeTested |
fission weapons
ⓘ
thermonuclear weapons ⓘ |
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 Aqueduct Description of subject: Operation Aqueduct was a series of U.S. nuclear weapons tests conducted during the Cold War as part of the broader American nuclear testing program.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.