Swissair Flight 100
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Swissair Flight 100 was a Swissair passenger flight that became widely known for being one of the commercial airliners hijacked during the 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings carried out by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| El Al Flight 219 | 1 |
| Swissair Flight 100 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18446206 — 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: Swissair Flight 100 Context triple: [Dawson's Field hijackings, aircraftHijacked, Swissair Flight 100]
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Aires Flight 8250
Aires Flight 8250 was a domestic Colombian passenger flight that crash-landed short of the runway at San Andrés Island in 2010, breaking apart and causing multiple fatalities and injuries.
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B.
BEA Flight 609
BEA Flight 609 was the British European Airways charter flight that crashed in 1958 at Munich-Riem Airport, a tragedy remembered as the Munich air disaster that killed many Manchester United players and staff.
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C.
Braniff Flight 542
Braniff Flight 542 was a 1959 Braniff Airways domestic passenger flight that broke up in midair near Buffalo, Texas, killing all aboard and becoming one of the early fatal accidents involving the Lockheed L-188 Electra.
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D.
Aeroflot Flight 500
Aeroflot Flight 500 was a Soviet-era scheduled passenger service operated by Aeroflot between Moscow and Alma-Ata (now Almaty, Kazakhstan).
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E.
EgyptAir Flight 990
EgyptAir Flight 990 was a scheduled passenger flight from New York to Cairo that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1999 under controversial circumstances, killing all on board.
- 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: Swissair Flight 100 Target entity description: Swissair Flight 100 was a Swissair passenger flight that became widely known for being one of the commercial airliners hijacked during the 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings carried out by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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A.
Aires Flight 8250
Aires Flight 8250 was a domestic Colombian passenger flight that crash-landed short of the runway at San Andrés Island in 2010, breaking apart and causing multiple fatalities and injuries.
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B.
BEA Flight 609
BEA Flight 609 was the British European Airways charter flight that crashed in 1958 at Munich-Riem Airport, a tragedy remembered as the Munich air disaster that killed many Manchester United players and staff.
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C.
Braniff Flight 542
Braniff Flight 542 was a 1959 Braniff Airways domestic passenger flight that broke up in midair near Buffalo, Texas, killing all aboard and becoming one of the early fatal accidents involving the Lockheed L-188 Electra.
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D.
Aeroflot Flight 500
Aeroflot Flight 500 was a Soviet-era scheduled passenger service operated by Aeroflot between Moscow and Alma-Ata (now Almaty, Kazakhstan).
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E.
EgyptAir Flight 990
EgyptAir Flight 990 was a scheduled passenger flight from New York to Cairo that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1999 under controversial circumstances, killing all on board.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Swissair Flight 100