EC-135 Looking Glass mission
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The EC-135 Looking Glass mission was a Cold War-era U.S. airborne command post operation that kept a nuclear command-and-control aircraft continuously in the air to ensure survivable leadership and communications in the event of a nuclear attack.
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| EC-135 Looking Glass mission canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23352525 — 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: EC-135 Looking Glass mission Context triple: [Looking Glass, replacedCapabilityOf, EC-135 Looking Glass mission]
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Operation Paravane
Operation Paravane was a World War II Royal Air Force bombing raid in 1944 aimed at crippling the German battleship Tirpitz in Norway.
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Operation Aphrodite mission
Operation Aphrodite was a World War II U.S. Navy and Army Air Forces program that used explosive-laden, remotely controlled aircraft for bombing missions, notably resulting in the death of Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. during one such operation.
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C.
Operation Sheba
Operation Sheba, also known as Operation Joshua, was a 1985 Israeli-organized airlift that rescued and relocated Ethiopian Jews from Sudan to Israel.
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Operation Grouse
Operation Grouse was a World War II British-led Norwegian commando mission that preceded and supported the main attack on the Vemork heavy water plant to disrupt Nazi Germany’s nuclear program.
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E.
Operation Harpoon
Operation Harpoon was a World War II Allied naval convoy operation aimed at resupplying the besieged island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
- 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: EC-135 Looking Glass mission Target entity description: The EC-135 Looking Glass mission was a Cold War-era U.S. airborne command post operation that kept a nuclear command-and-control aircraft continuously in the air to ensure survivable leadership and communications in the event of a nuclear attack.
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A.
Operation Paravane
Operation Paravane was a World War II Royal Air Force bombing raid in 1944 aimed at crippling the German battleship Tirpitz in Norway.
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B.
Operation Aphrodite mission
Operation Aphrodite was a World War II U.S. Navy and Army Air Forces program that used explosive-laden, remotely controlled aircraft for bombing missions, notably resulting in the death of Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. during one such operation.
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C.
Operation Sheba
Operation Sheba, also known as Operation Joshua, was a 1985 Israeli-organized airlift that rescued and relocated Ethiopian Jews from Sudan to Israel.
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D.
Operation Grouse
Operation Grouse was a World War II British-led Norwegian commando mission that preceded and supported the main attack on the Vemork heavy water plant to disrupt Nazi Germany’s nuclear program.
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E.
Operation Harpoon
Operation Harpoon was a World War II Allied naval convoy operation aimed at resupplying the besieged island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
- F. None of above. chosen
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