Operation Barras
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Operation Barras was a 2000 British special forces hostage-rescue mission in Sierra Leone to free captured soldiers from the West Side Boys militia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Operation Barras canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17635944 — 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: Operation Barras Context triple: [Joint Helicopter Force (Sierra Leone), notableOperation, Operation Barras]
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A.
Operation Daguet
Operation Daguet was the codename for France’s military campaign during the 1991 Gulf War, involving the deployment of French ground and air forces to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation.
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B.
Operation Boleas
Operation Boleas was a 1998 regional military intervention in Lesotho led by South Africa and supported by Botswana to restore order following post-election unrest.
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C.
Operation Claret
Operation Claret was a series of covert cross-border military raids conducted by British Commonwealth forces during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation in the 1960s.
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D.
Operation Gaudo
Operation Gaudo was an Italian World War II naval operation in March 1941 that led to the Battle of Cape Matapan, where the battleship Vittorio Veneto and other Italian ships engaged British naval forces in the Mediterranean.
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E.
Operation Fredericus
Operation Fredericus was a German World War II offensive on the Eastern Front aimed at encircling and destroying Soviet forces in the Kharkov sector in May 1942.
- 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 Barras Target entity description: Operation Barras was a 2000 British special forces hostage-rescue mission in Sierra Leone to free captured soldiers from the West Side Boys militia.
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A.
Operation Daguet
Operation Daguet was the codename for France’s military campaign during the 1991 Gulf War, involving the deployment of French ground and air forces to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation.
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B.
Operation Boleas
Operation Boleas was a 1998 regional military intervention in Lesotho led by South Africa and supported by Botswana to restore order following post-election unrest.
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C.
Operation Claret
Operation Claret was a series of covert cross-border military raids conducted by British Commonwealth forces during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation in the 1960s.
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D.
Operation Gaudo
Operation Gaudo was an Italian World War II naval operation in March 1941 that led to the Battle of Cape Matapan, where the battleship Vittorio Veneto and other Italian ships engaged British naval forces in the Mediterranean.
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E.
Operation Fredericus
Operation Fredericus was a German World War II offensive on the Eastern Front aimed at encircling and destroying Soviet forces in the Kharkov sector in May 1942.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.