Hijacking of Air France Flight 139
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The Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 was a 1976 Palestinian-German terrorist seizure of an airliner en route from Tel Aviv to Paris that led to the famous Entebbe hostage crisis in Uganda.
All labels observed (1)
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| Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9369399 — 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: Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 Context triple: [Operation Thunderbolt, precededBy, Hijacking of Air France Flight 139]
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A.
1968 El Al Flight 426 hijacking
The 1968 El Al Flight 426 hijacking was an early and highly publicized Palestinian militant aircraft hijacking in which members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine seized an Israeli airliner en route from Rome to Tel Aviv and diverted it to Algiers.
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B.
UTA Flight 772 bombing
The UTA Flight 772 bombing was a 1989 terrorist attack in which a French airliner was destroyed over the Sahara Desert, killing all on board and later being linked to Libyan agents.
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C.
Dawson's Field hijackings
The Dawson's Field hijackings were a series of coordinated airplane hijackings in September 1970 by Palestinian militants that culminated in multiple airliners being blown up on a remote airstrip in Jordan, dramatically escalating the Palestinian militant campaign and contributing to the events of Black September.
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D.
Amiens prison raid
The Amiens prison raid was a daring low-level Allied air attack in February 1944 aimed at breaching a German-occupied prison in Amiens, France, to free members of the French Resistance and other detainees during World War II.
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E.
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103 was a transatlantic Pan American World Airways flight that was destroyed by a terrorist bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground.
- 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: Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 Target entity description: The Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 was a 1976 Palestinian-German terrorist seizure of an airliner en route from Tel Aviv to Paris that led to the famous Entebbe hostage crisis in Uganda.
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A.
1968 El Al Flight 426 hijacking
The 1968 El Al Flight 426 hijacking was an early and highly publicized Palestinian militant aircraft hijacking in which members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine seized an Israeli airliner en route from Rome to Tel Aviv and diverted it to Algiers.
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B.
UTA Flight 772 bombing
The UTA Flight 772 bombing was a 1989 terrorist attack in which a French airliner was destroyed over the Sahara Desert, killing all on board and later being linked to Libyan agents.
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C.
Dawson's Field hijackings
The Dawson's Field hijackings were a series of coordinated airplane hijackings in September 1970 by Palestinian militants that culminated in multiple airliners being blown up on a remote airstrip in Jordan, dramatically escalating the Palestinian militant campaign and contributing to the events of Black September.
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D.
Amiens prison raid
The Amiens prison raid was a daring low-level Allied air attack in February 1944 aimed at breaching a German-occupied prison in Amiens, France, to free members of the French Resistance and other detainees during World War II.
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E.
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103 was a transatlantic Pan American World Airways flight that was destroyed by a terrorist bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 Description of subject: The Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 was a 1976 Palestinian-German terrorist seizure of an airliner en route from Tel Aviv to Paris that led to the famous Entebbe hostage crisis in Uganda.
Referenced by (1)
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