Amiens prison raid
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Amiens prison raid canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6940632 — 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: Amiens prison raid Context triple: [Operation Jericho, alsoKnownAs, Amiens prison raid]
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A.
Incident at Vichy
Incident at Vichy is a one-act play by Arthur Miller that explores themes of guilt, complicity, and moral responsibility through the interrogation of detainees in Nazi-occupied France.
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B.
Tulle massacre
The Tulle massacre was a World War II atrocity in June 1944 in which German SS troops hanged and killed dozens of French civilians in the town of Tulle as a brutal reprisal against Resistance activities.
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C.
Champ de Mars Massacre
The Champ de Mars Massacre was a pivotal 1791 incident during the French Revolution in which troops fired on republican demonstrators in Paris, sharply deepening political divisions and radicalizing the revolutionary movement.
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D.
École Polytechnique massacre
The École Polytechnique massacre was a 1989 antifeminist mass shooting at an engineering school in Montreal, Canada, in which 14 women were murdered and which profoundly impacted Canadian society and gun control laws.
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E.
Duékoué massacre
The Duékoué massacre was a large-scale killing of civilians in western Côte d'Ivoire in 2011, widely condemned as one of the worst atrocities of the Second Ivorian Civil War.
- 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: Amiens prison raid Target entity description: 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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A.
Incident at Vichy
Incident at Vichy is a one-act play by Arthur Miller that explores themes of guilt, complicity, and moral responsibility through the interrogation of detainees in Nazi-occupied France.
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B.
Tulle massacre
The Tulle massacre was a World War II atrocity in June 1944 in which German SS troops hanged and killed dozens of French civilians in the town of Tulle as a brutal reprisal against Resistance activities.
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C.
Champ de Mars Massacre
The Champ de Mars Massacre was a pivotal 1791 incident during the French Revolution in which troops fired on republican demonstrators in Paris, sharply deepening political divisions and radicalizing the revolutionary movement.
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D.
École Polytechnique massacre
The École Polytechnique massacre was a 1989 antifeminist mass shooting at an engineering school in Montreal, Canada, in which 14 women were murdered and which profoundly impacted Canadian society and gun control laws.
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E.
Duékoué massacre
The Duékoué massacre was a large-scale killing of civilians in western Côte d'Ivoire in 2011, widely condemned as one of the worst atrocities of the Second Ivorian Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World War II operation
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air raid ⓘ military operation ⓘ |
| aircraftUsed |
Hawker Typhoon
NERFINISHED
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de Havilland Mosquito NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| approachAltitude | very low level ⓘ |
| belligerent |
Allies
NERFINISHED
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Germany ⓘ |
| casualties |
Allied aircrew killed
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German guards killed ⓘ prisoners killed ⓘ |
| conductedBy |
No. 2 Group RAF
NERFINISHED
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Royal Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War II
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surface form:
Second World War
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| controversy |
debate over intelligence sources
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debate over necessity of the raid ⓘ |
| countryInvolved |
Australia
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Nazi Germany ⓘ New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| date | 18 February 1944 ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Operation Jericho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
example of precision low-level bombing in WWII
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symbolic support to French Resistance ⓘ |
| location |
Amiens
NERFINISHED
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Amiens Prison NERFINISHED ⓘ France ⓘ Somme department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCommander | Group Captain Percy Charles Pickard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| objective |
breach prison walls
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destroy guard facilities ⓘ enable mass escape of prisoners ⓘ free members of the French Resistance ⓘ |
| partOf | Allied operations in Western Europe ⓘ |
| PickardStatus | killed in action ⓘ |
| plannedBy | Allied air forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| prisonerType |
common criminals
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members of the French Resistance ⓘ political prisoners ⓘ |
| result |
Allied aircraft losses
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many prisoners escaped ⓘ prison walls breached ⓘ significant prisoner casualties ⓘ |
| supportedBy | French Resistance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tactic | low-level precision bombing ⓘ |
| target | Amiens prison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatre | Western Front of World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeOfDay | daylight ⓘ |
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Subject: Amiens prison raid Description of subject: 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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