Rolls-Royce Eagle

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The Rolls-Royce Eagle was a pioneering British liquid-cooled V12 aircraft engine of World War I, widely used to power frontline bombers and reconnaissance aircraft.

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf V12 engine
aircraft engine
liquid-cooled piston engine
applicationRole frontline bomber powerplant
frontline reconnaissance powerplant
bore 114 mm
category Rolls-Royce aircraft engines
World War I aircraft piston engines
configuration 60-degree V12
coolingSystem liquid-cooled
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
designer Henry Royce
displacement 20.3 L
era World War I aviation
family Rolls-Royce Eagle engine family
firstRunDate 1915
fuelType aviation gasoline
ignitionSystem dual magnetos
lubricationSystem pressure-fed oil system
manufacturer Rolls-Royce Limited
material cast aluminum crankcase
notableAchievement powered several long‑distance and record flights after World War I
notableAircraft Airco DH.4
Airco DH.9
surface form: Airco DH.9A (early examples)

Felixstowe F.2A
Felixstowe F.2A
surface form: Felixstowe F.3

Handley Page O/100
Handley Page O/400
Vickers Vimy
surface form: Vickers Vimy (early versions)
notableFeature high reliability for its time
pioneering British V12 aero engine design
notableUse bombers
flying boats
reconnaissance aircraft
powerOutput 225 hp (early versions)
up to about 360 hp (later versions)
productionPeriod 1915–1928
propellerDrive direct drive
status out of production
stroke 165 mm
successor Rolls-Royce Condor
Rolls-Royce Kestrel
usedBy Royal Air Force
Royal Flying Corps
Royal Naval Air Service
usedInConflict World War I
valvesPerCylinder 4
valvetrain overhead camshaft

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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: Rolls-Royce Eagle
Description of subject: The Rolls-Royce Eagle was a pioneering British liquid-cooled V12 aircraft engine of World War I, widely used to power frontline bombers and reconnaissance aircraft.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Airco DH.4 typicalEngine Rolls-Royce Eagle
Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII V-12 piston engine predecessor Rolls-Royce Eagle
subject surface form: Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII
this entity surface form: Rolls-Royce Eagle VII
Handley Page V/1500 powerplant Rolls-Royce Eagle
this entity surface form: Rolls‑Royce Eagle VIII