Pratt & Whitney PW2000
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The Pratt & Whitney PW2000 is a high-bypass turbofan engine family widely used on medium-range commercial and military transport aircraft.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pratt & Whitney PW2000 canonical | 3 |
| PW2000 series | 1 |
| Pratt & Whitney PW2000 civil engine | 1 |
| Pratt & Whitney PW2000 family | 1 |
| Pratt & Whitney PW2000 series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1063100 — 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: Pratt & Whitney PW2000 Context triple: [Boeing 757, typicalEngines, Pratt & Whitney PW2000]
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A.
Pratt & Whitney F117-PW-100
The Pratt & Whitney F117-PW-100 is a high-bypass turbofan jet engine used to power the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft.
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B.
Pratt & Whitney JT9D
The Pratt & Whitney JT9D is a high-bypass turbofan jet engine that powered early wide-body airliners and was notably used on the original Boeing 747 series.
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C.
General Electric F404
The General Electric F404 is a family of afterburning turbofan jet engines widely used in modern fighter aircraft for their reliability, high thrust-to-weight ratio, and ease of maintenance.
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D.
Pratt & Whitney JT8D
The Pratt & Whitney JT8D is a low-bypass turbofan jet engine widely used on early short- to medium-range airliners and known for powering many classic narrow-body aircraft of the 1960s–1980s.
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E.
Rolls-Royce RB211
The Rolls-Royce RB211 is a high-bypass turbofan jet engine that was pioneering in its use of advanced materials and technology and became a cornerstone powerplant for wide-body airliners.
- 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: Pratt & Whitney PW2000 Target entity description: The Pratt & Whitney PW2000 is a high-bypass turbofan engine family widely used on medium-range commercial and military transport aircraft.
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A.
Pratt & Whitney F117-PW-100
The Pratt & Whitney F117-PW-100 is a high-bypass turbofan jet engine used to power the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft.
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B.
Pratt & Whitney JT9D
The Pratt & Whitney JT9D is a high-bypass turbofan jet engine that powered early wide-body airliners and was notably used on the original Boeing 747 series.
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C.
General Electric F404
The General Electric F404 is a family of afterburning turbofan jet engines widely used in modern fighter aircraft for their reliability, high thrust-to-weight ratio, and ease of maintenance.
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D.
Pratt & Whitney JT8D
The Pratt & Whitney JT8D is a low-bypass turbofan jet engine widely used on early short- to medium-range airliners and known for powering many classic narrow-body aircraft of the 1960s–1980s.
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E.
Rolls-Royce RB211
The Rolls-Royce RB211 is a high-bypass turbofan jet engine that was pioneering in its use of advanced materials and technology and became a cornerstone powerplant for wide-body airliners.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | turbofan engine family ⓘ |
| alias |
Pratt & Whitney PW2000
ⓘ
surface form:
PW2000 series
|
| application |
commercial transport aircraft
ⓘ
military transport aircraft ⓘ |
| bypassRatio | high ⓘ |
| category |
aircraft engines of the United States
ⓘ
high-bypass turbofan engines ⓘ |
| certificationAuthority | Federal Aviation Administration ⓘ |
| configuration | twin-spool turbofan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designFeature |
fuel-efficient core
ⓘ
high overall pressure ratio ⓘ low-noise nacelle design ⓘ |
| emissionsCharacteristic | reduced fuel burn compared to earlier engines ⓘ |
| engineType | high-bypass turbofan ⓘ |
| familyMember |
PW2033
ⓘ
PW2037 ⓘ PW2037 ⓘ
surface form:
PW2037M
PW2040 ⓘ |
| fuelType | aviation kerosene ⓘ |
| intendedUse | narrow-body airliners ⓘ |
| introducedFor |
Boeing 757
ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing 757 program
|
| manufacturer | Pratt & Whitney ⓘ |
| marketRole | competitor to Rolls-Royce RB211-535 ⓘ |
| marketSegment | medium-range aircraft ⓘ |
| militaryDesignation | F117 ⓘ |
| notableOperatorAircraft |
Boeing 757
ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing 757-200
Boeing 757 ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing 757-300
C-17 Globemaster III ⓘ
surface form:
United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III
|
| notableVariant |
F117
ⓘ
surface form:
F117-PW-100
PW2037 ⓘ PW2040 ⓘ |
| operatorType |
civil airlines
ⓘ
military air forces ⓘ |
| powerplantFor | Boeing 757 freighter conversions ⓘ |
| role |
primary powerplant for Boeing 757
ⓘ
primary powerplant for C-17 Globemaster III (as F117) ⓘ |
| status | in service ⓘ |
| targetMarket |
large military transport aircraft
ⓘ
medium-capacity twinjet airliners ⓘ |
| technologyLevel | high-bypass ratio with modern materials ⓘ |
| thrustClass |
37,000 lbf
ⓘ
40,000 lbf ⓘ |
| thrustRange | approximately 37,000–43,000 lbf ⓘ |
| usedFor |
medium-range commercial flights
ⓘ
strategic and tactical airlift ⓘ |
| usedOnAircraft |
Boeing 757
ⓘ
C-17 Globemaster III ⓘ |
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: Pratt & Whitney PW2000 Description of subject: The Pratt & Whitney PW2000 is a high-bypass turbofan engine family widely used on medium-range commercial and military transport aircraft.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pratt & Whitney PW2000 family
this entity surface form:
Pratt & Whitney PW2000 civil engine
this entity surface form:
PW2000 series
this entity surface form:
Pratt & Whitney PW2000 series