No. 111 Squadron

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No. 111 Squadron was a renowned Royal Air Force fighter squadron, active in both World Wars and the Cold War, noted for its air defense role and distinctive black fin markings.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
No. 111 Squadron RAF 7
111 Squadron 2
No. 111 Squadron canonical 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Royal Air Force squadron
aircraftOperated English Electric Lightning
Eurofighter Typhoon
Gloster Javelin
Gloster Meteor
Hawker Hurricane
McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR.2
Panavia Tornado
surface form: Panavia Tornado F3

Supermarine Spitfire
allegiance British Crown
basedAt RAF Akrotiri
RAF Hornchurch
RAF Northolt
branch Royal Air Force
coldWarRole quick reaction alert air defence
conflict Cold War
World War I
surface form: First World War

World War II
surface form: Second World War
country United Kingdom
disbandmentDate 2011
formationDate 1917
garrison RAF Coningsby
RAF Leeming
RAF Leuchars
RAF North Weald
RAF Wattisham
identificationSymbol black fin markings
squadron badge with three number ones
motto Adstantes
nickname Black Arrows
Treble One
notableFor RAF aerobatic display team Black Arrows
air defence of the United Kingdom
distinctive black fin markings
partOf Fighter Command
surface form: Air Defence of Great Britain

Royal Air Force Fighter Command
surface form: RAF Fighter Command

RAF Strike Command
role air defence
fighter squadron
service Royal Air Force
Royal Flying Corps
status disbanded
theatre Middle East
Western Front
typeOfUnit fighter unit
worldWarIIrole day fighter operations
worldWarIrole fighter and reconnaissance operations

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: No. 111 Squadron
Description of subject: No. 111 Squadron was a renowned Royal Air Force fighter squadron, active in both World Wars and the Cold War, noted for its air defense role and distinctive black fin markings.

Referenced by (11)

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

RAF No. 111 Squadron designation No. 111 Squadron
subject surface form: No. 111 Squadron RAF
Treble One refersTo No. 111 Squadron
this entity surface form: No. 111 Squadron RAF
Treble One alsoKnownAs No. 111 Squadron
this entity surface form: 111 Squadron
Treble One alsoKnownAs No. 111 Squadron
Treble One alsoKnownAs No. 111 Squadron
this entity surface form: No. 111 Squadron RAF
Black Arrows partOf No. 111 Squadron
this entity surface form: No. 111 Squadron RAF
Black Arrows parentUnit No. 111 Squadron
this entity surface form: No. 111 Squadron RAF
Black Arrows squadronCode No. 111 Squadron
this entity surface form: 111 Squadron
RAF Leuchars formerStationedUnit No. 111 Squadron
this entity surface form: No. 111 Squadron RAF
RAF Debden stationedUnit No. 111 Squadron
this entity surface form: No. 111 Squadron RAF
RAF North Weald hostedUnit No. 111 Squadron
this entity surface form: No. 111 Squadron RAF