Jaguar XK140
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The Jaguar XK140 is a mid-1950s British sports car renowned for refining the performance, comfort, and handling of the earlier XK120 while preserving its classic styling.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jaguar XK series | 1 |
| Jaguar XK140 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13291495 — 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.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jaguar XK140 Context triple: [Jaguar XK120, successor, Jaguar XK140]
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A.
Jaguar XK120
The Jaguar XK120 is a classic British sports car produced from 1948 to 1954, renowned for its sleek design and status as one of the fastest production cars of its era.
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B.
Jaguar E-Type
The Jaguar E-Type is a classic British sports car from the 1960s and 1970s, celebrated for its sleek design, strong performance, and status as an icon of automotive style.
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C.
Jaguar XJ220
The Jaguar XJ220 is a limited-production British supercar from the early 1990s, renowned for its twin-turbo V6 engine, advanced aerodynamics, and once holding the title of the world’s fastest production car.
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D.
Jaguar S-Type
The Jaguar S-Type is a mid-size luxury sedan produced by Jaguar from 1999 to 2007, known for its retro-inspired styling and refined driving dynamics.
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E.
Jaguar XJ
The Jaguar XJ is a line of full-size luxury sedans known for their elegant British styling, refined performance, and long-standing flagship status in Jaguar’s lineup.
- 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: Jaguar XK140 Target entity description: The Jaguar XK140 is a mid-1950s British sports car renowned for refining the performance, comfort, and handling of the earlier XK120 while preserving its classic styling.
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A.
Jaguar XK120
The Jaguar XK120 is a classic British sports car produced from 1948 to 1954, renowned for its sleek design and status as one of the fastest production cars of its era.
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B.
Jaguar E-Type
The Jaguar E-Type is a classic British sports car from the 1960s and 1970s, celebrated for its sleek design, strong performance, and status as an icon of automotive style.
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C.
Jaguar XJ220
The Jaguar XJ220 is a limited-production British supercar from the early 1990s, renowned for its twin-turbo V6 engine, advanced aerodynamics, and once holding the title of the world’s fastest production car.
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D.
Jaguar S-Type
The Jaguar S-Type is a mid-size luxury sedan produced by Jaguar from 1999 to 2007, known for its retro-inspired styling and refined driving dynamics.
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E.
Jaguar XJ
The Jaguar XJ is a line of full-size luxury sedans known for their elegant British styling, refined performance, and long-standing flagship status in Jaguar’s lineup.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jaguar car model
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sports car ⓘ |
| bodyStyle |
2-door drophead coupé
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2-door fixed-head coupé ⓘ 2-door roadster ⓘ |
| brakes | drum brakes ⓘ |
| category |
1950s automobiles
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convertibles ⓘ coupés ⓘ rear-wheel-drive vehicles ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designer | Jaguar design team under William Lyons ⓘ |
| designFeature |
badge bar on front bumper
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bumpers with overriders ⓘ full-width radiator grille ⓘ turn indicators above front bumper ⓘ |
| engineConfiguration | inline-6 ⓘ |
| engineDisplacement | 3.4 L ⓘ |
| engineFamily | Jaguar XK engine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enginePosition | front ⓘ |
| frontSuspension | independent, torsion bar ⓘ |
| introducedAt | 1954 London Motor Show ⓘ |
| layout | front-engine, rear-wheel-drive ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Jaguar Cars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketSegment | luxury sports car ⓘ |
| notableImprovementOverPredecessor |
better braking
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improved steering ⓘ increased interior space ⓘ revised suspension ⓘ |
| notableVariant |
XK140 MC
NERFINISHED
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XK140 SE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| optionalPowerOutput | 210 bhp ⓘ |
| optionalTransmission | overdrive ⓘ |
| predecessor | Jaguar XK120 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionEnd | 1957 ⓘ |
| productionStart | 1954 ⓘ |
| rearSuspension | live axle, semi-elliptic leaf springs ⓘ |
| retainedFeatureFromPredecessor | classic XK styling ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity | 2 ⓘ |
| standardPowerOutput | 190 bhp ⓘ |
| steering | rack and pinion ⓘ |
| successor | Jaguar XK150 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| topSpeed | 120 mph ⓘ |
| transmission | 4-speed manual ⓘ |
| wheelbase | 102 in ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Jaguar XK140 Description of subject: The Jaguar XK140 is a mid-1950s British sports car renowned for refining the performance, comfort, and handling of the earlier XK120 while preserving its classic styling.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jaguar XK series