Pan Am Flight 103
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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.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pan Am Flight 103 canonical | 12 |
| Pan Am Flight 103 bombing | 12 |
| Lockerbie bombing | 11 |
| Pan Am Flight 103 crash | 1 |
| bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T639731 — 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.
Target entity: Pan Am Flight 103 Context triple: [Pan Am Flight 103 Memorial, relatedTo, Pan Am Flight 103]
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Lockerbie bombing diplomatic crisis
The Lockerbie bombing diplomatic crisis was the prolonged international standoff in the 1990s and early 2000s over Libya’s responsibility for the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, involving UN sanctions, negotiations over suspects’ trials, and eventual compensation agreements.
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Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a small town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, internationally known as the site of the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.
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Pan Am Flight 103 Memorial
The Pan Am Flight 103 Memorial is a commemorative monument honoring the victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
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United Airlines Flight 175
United Airlines Flight 175 was the hijacked passenger airliner that was flown into the South Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Munich massacre
The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympic Games in which members of the Palestinian group Black September took Israeli athletes hostage, resulting in the deaths of eleven Israeli team members and a German police officer.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Pan Am Flight 103 Target entity description: 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.
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A.
Lockerbie bombing diplomatic crisis
The Lockerbie bombing diplomatic crisis was the prolonged international standoff in the 1990s and early 2000s over Libya’s responsibility for the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, involving UN sanctions, negotiations over suspects’ trials, and eventual compensation agreements.
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Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a small town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, internationally known as the site of the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.
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Pan Am Flight 103 Memorial
The Pan Am Flight 103 Memorial is a commemorative monument honoring the victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
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D.
United Airlines Flight 175
United Airlines Flight 175 was the hijacked passenger airliner that was flown into the South Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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E.
Munich massacre
The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympic Games in which members of the Palestinian group Black September took Israeli athletes hostage, resulting in the deaths of eleven Israeli team members and a German police officer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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Subject: Pan Am Flight 103 Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (37)
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