Arms Crisis of 1970
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The Arms Crisis of 1970 was a major political scandal in the Republic of Ireland involving allegations of a government-backed attempt to illegally import arms for use in Northern Ireland, which led to high-profile trials and reshaped Irish politics.
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| Arms Crisis of 1970 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18650265 — 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)
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Target entity: Arms Crisis of 1970 Context triple: [Charles Haughey, involvedIn, Arms Crisis of 1970]
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Quemoy Crisis
The Quemoy Crisis refers to two Cold War-era military confrontations in the 1950s between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China over the offshore islands of Quemoy (Kinmen), which drew in U.S. involvement and heightened cross-strait tensions.
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The Tashkent Crisis
The Tashkent Crisis is a historical non-fiction book by William Craig that examines Cold War tensions and diplomatic maneuvering surrounding the 1966 Tashkent peace talks between India and Pakistan.
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Abadan Crisis
The Abadan Crisis was a major early-1950s confrontation between Iran and Britain over the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry, centered on the Abadan refinery and escalating tensions that helped set the stage for the 1953 Iranian coup.
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D.
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis was a 1958 military confrontation between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China over offshore islands near Taiwan, which drew in U.S. involvement and heightened Cold War tensions in East Asia.
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E.
Chanak Crisis
The Chanak Crisis was a 1922 diplomatic confrontation between Britain and Turkey over control of the Dardanelles that nearly led to war and marked a turning point in British imperial politics.
- 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: Arms Crisis of 1970 Target entity description: The Arms Crisis of 1970 was a major political scandal in the Republic of Ireland involving allegations of a government-backed attempt to illegally import arms for use in Northern Ireland, which led to high-profile trials and reshaped Irish politics.
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A.
Quemoy Crisis
The Quemoy Crisis refers to two Cold War-era military confrontations in the 1950s between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China over the offshore islands of Quemoy (Kinmen), which drew in U.S. involvement and heightened cross-strait tensions.
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B.
The Tashkent Crisis
The Tashkent Crisis is a historical non-fiction book by William Craig that examines Cold War tensions and diplomatic maneuvering surrounding the 1966 Tashkent peace talks between India and Pakistan.
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C.
Abadan Crisis
The Abadan Crisis was a major early-1950s confrontation between Iran and Britain over the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry, centered on the Abadan refinery and escalating tensions that helped set the stage for the 1953 Iranian coup.
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D.
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis was a 1958 military confrontation between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China over offshore islands near Taiwan, which drew in U.S. involvement and heightened Cold War tensions in East Asia.
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E.
Chanak Crisis
The Chanak Crisis was a 1922 diplomatic confrontation between Britain and Turkey over control of the Dardanelles that nearly led to war and marked a turning point in British imperial politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
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