Ilyushin Il-18
E139635
The Ilyushin Il-18 is a Soviet-era four-engine turboprop airliner known for its long-range capability, durability, and extensive use by Eastern Bloc airlines and military operators during the Cold War.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ilyushin Il-18 canonical | 9 |
| Ilyushin | 1 |
| Ilyushin Il-18 airliner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1196224 — 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: Ilyushin Il-18 Context triple: [AeroCaribbean, operatedAircraftType, Ilyushin Il-18]
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A.
Tupolev Tu-114 airliner
The Tupolev Tu-114 airliner is a Soviet long-range turboprop passenger aircraft, renowned for being one of the fastest and largest propeller-driven airliners ever built and for serving prestigious international routes during the Cold War era.
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B.
Tupolev Tu-104 jet airliner
The Tupolev Tu-104 was one of the world’s first successful jet airliners, developed in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and used extensively by Aeroflot for medium-range passenger flights.
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C.
Ilyushin Il-96 (historically)
The Ilyushin Il-96 is a Russian long-range, wide-body airliner introduced in the late 1980s and used primarily for intercontinental passenger and VIP transport.
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D.
Tupolev Tu-4 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-4 bomber is a Soviet long-range strategic bomber developed in the late 1940s as a reverse-engineered copy of the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
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E.
Tupolev Tu-2 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-2 bomber was a highly effective Soviet twin‑engine frontline bomber of World War II, known for its speed, payload capacity, and extensive use on the Eastern Front.
- 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: Ilyushin Il-18 Target entity description: The Ilyushin Il-18 is a Soviet-era four-engine turboprop airliner known for its long-range capability, durability, and extensive use by Eastern Bloc airlines and military operators during the Cold War.
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A.
Tupolev Tu-114 airliner
The Tupolev Tu-114 airliner is a Soviet long-range turboprop passenger aircraft, renowned for being one of the fastest and largest propeller-driven airliners ever built and for serving prestigious international routes during the Cold War era.
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B.
Tupolev Tu-104 jet airliner
The Tupolev Tu-104 was one of the world’s first successful jet airliners, developed in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and used extensively by Aeroflot for medium-range passenger flights.
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C.
Ilyushin Il-96 (historically)
The Ilyushin Il-96 is a Russian long-range, wide-body airliner introduced in the late 1980s and used primarily for intercontinental passenger and VIP transport.
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D.
Tupolev Tu-4 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-4 bomber is a Soviet long-range strategic bomber developed in the late 1940s as a reverse-engineered copy of the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
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E.
Tupolev Tu-2 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-2 bomber was a highly effective Soviet twin‑engine frontline bomber of World War II, known for its speed, payload capacity, and extensive use on the Eastern Front.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airliner
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narrow-body aircraft ⓘ turboprop aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory |
civil transport aircraft
ⓘ
military transport aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftGeneration | second-generation turboprop airliner ⓘ |
| configuration | low-wing monoplane ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crew | 4 ⓘ |
| cruiseSpeed | 675 km/h ⓘ |
| engineType | turboprop ⓘ |
| era | Cold War ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1957-07-04 ⓘ |
| fuselageType | pressurized ⓘ |
| height | 10.17 m ⓘ |
| IATADesignator | IL8 ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | IL18 ⓘ |
| introduced | 1959 ⓘ |
| landingGear | tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| length | 35.9 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Ilyushin Design Bureau ⓘ |
| marketRegion | Eastern Bloc ⓘ |
| maximumPassengerCapacity | 122 ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
high durability
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long-range capability ⓘ reliable operation in harsh conditions ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 4 ⓘ |
| powerplant | Ivchenko AI-20 turboprop ⓘ |
| primaryRole | passenger transport ⓘ |
| producedBy | Moscow Machine Building Plant Znamya Truda ⓘ |
| productionEnd | 1970s ⓘ |
| productionStart | 1958 ⓘ |
| range | 6500 km ⓘ |
| secondaryRole |
VIP transport
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maritime patrol ⓘ military transport ⓘ |
| serviceCeiling | 12000 m ⓘ |
| status | out of production ⓘ |
| successor | Ilyushin Il-62 ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | conventional tail ⓘ |
| typicalPassengerCapacity | 90 ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Aeroflot
ⓘ
Warsaw Pact airlines ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Bloc airlines
Soviet Air Forces ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet Air Force
Warsaw Pact ⓘ
surface form:
Warsaw Pact air forces
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| usedFor |
domestic routes in the Soviet Union
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international routes from the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| wingspan | 37.4 m ⓘ |
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: Ilyushin Il-18 Description of subject: The Ilyushin Il-18 is a Soviet-era four-engine turboprop airliner known for its long-range capability, durability, and extensive use by Eastern Bloc airlines and military operators during the Cold War.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ilyushin
this entity surface form:
Ilyushin Il-18 airliner
subject surface form:
Malév Hungarian Airlines