Astazou III
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The Astazou III is an early, more powerful development of Turbomeca’s Astazou turboshaft engine series, widely used in light helicopters and aircraft during the 1960s and 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Astazou III canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13457257 — 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: Astazou III Context triple: [Turbomeca Astazou, notableVariant, Astazou III]
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A.
Astazou II
The Astazou II is an early, widely used variant of Turbomeca’s Astazou turboshaft/turboprop engine, powering various light helicopters and aircraft in the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Azarethes
Azarethes was a prominent Sasanian Persian general noted for his role in the Iberian War against the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.
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C.
Abderus
Abderus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known as a companion of Heracles who was killed by the mares of Diomedes.
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D.
Azdak
Azdak is a shrewd, unorthodox village judge whose rough-edged wisdom and sense of justice drive the central conflict in Bertolt Brecht’s play "The Caucasian Chalk Circle."
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E.
Zagara
Zagara is a prominent Zerg broodmother and military commander in the StarCraft universe, known for leading the Swarm in Kerrigan’s absence.
- 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: Astazou III Target entity description: The Astazou III is an early, more powerful development of Turbomeca’s Astazou turboshaft engine series, widely used in light helicopters and aircraft during the 1960s and 1970s.
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A.
Astazou II
The Astazou II is an early, widely used variant of Turbomeca’s Astazou turboshaft/turboprop engine, powering various light helicopters and aircraft in the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Azarethes
Azarethes was a prominent Sasanian Persian general noted for his role in the Iberian War against the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.
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C.
Abderus
Abderus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known as a companion of Heracles who was killed by the mares of Diomedes.
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D.
Azdak
Azdak is a shrewd, unorthodox village judge whose rough-edged wisdom and sense of justice drive the central conflict in Bertolt Brecht’s play "The Caucasian Chalk Circle."
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E.
Zagara
Zagara is a prominent Zerg broodmother and military commander in the StarCraft universe, known for leading the Swarm in Kerrigan’s absence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | turboshaft engine ⓘ |
| application |
civil aviation
ⓘ
military aviation ⓘ |
| category |
aircraft engine
ⓘ
helicopter engine ⓘ |
| configuration | axial‑centrifugal compressor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| developedBy | Turbomeca engineering team ⓘ |
| engineType | free‑turbine turboshaft ⓘ |
| era |
1960s
ⓘ
1970s ⓘ |
| familyRole | early more powerful development of Astazou series ⓘ |
| fuelType | kerosene jet fuel ⓘ |
| generation | early generation turboshaft engine ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Turbomeca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturerNow | Safran Helicopter Engines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketedAs |
Astazou IIIA
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Astazou IIIB NERFINISHED ⓘ Astazou IIIC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature | increased power output compared to earlier Astazou variants ⓘ |
| notableUsePeriod |
widely used during 1960s
ⓘ
widely used during 1970s ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Turbomeca Astazou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Astazou II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn |
light aircraft
ⓘ
light helicopters ⓘ |
| usedOn |
Aérospatiale SA 318C Alouette II
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aérospatiale SA 319B Alouette III NERFINISHED ⓘ Aérospatiale SA 341 Gazelle (early variants) NERFINISHED ⓘ Potez 840 (turboprop derivative family) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Astazou III Description of subject: The Astazou III is an early, more powerful development of Turbomeca’s Astazou turboshaft engine series, widely used in light helicopters and aircraft during the 1960s and 1970s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.