Pilatus PC-9
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The Pilatus PC-9 is a Swiss-built turboprop training aircraft widely used by military air forces around the world for basic and advanced pilot instruction.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pilatus PC-9 canonical | 8 |
| Pilatus PC-9M | 3 |
| Pilatus PC-9A | 1 |
| Pilatus PC-9M Hudournik | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1420717 — 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: Pilatus PC-9 Context triple: [Bulgarian Air Force, aircraftOperated, Pilatus PC-9]
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A.
Pilatus PC-7
The Pilatus PC-7 is a Swiss-built turboprop military trainer aircraft widely used for basic flight training by air forces around the world.
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B.
Pilatus PC-21
The Pilatus PC-21 is a Swiss-made, next-generation turboprop military trainer aircraft designed to provide jet-like performance and advanced training capabilities for fighter pilots.
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C.
Beechcraft T-6 Texan II
The Beechcraft T-6 Texan II is a single-engine turboprop military trainer aircraft widely used by air forces for primary and basic flight training.
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D.
Beechcraft King Air
The Beechcraft King Air is a family of twin-turboprop utility aircraft widely used around the world for military, government, and civilian transport, training, and special-mission roles.
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E.
Piper Saratoga
The Piper Saratoga is a high-performance, single-engine, six-seat light aircraft known for its use in general aviation and for being the model involved in the fatal crash of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- 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: Pilatus PC-9 Target entity description: The Pilatus PC-9 is a Swiss-built turboprop training aircraft widely used by military air forces around the world for basic and advanced pilot instruction.
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A.
Pilatus PC-7
The Pilatus PC-7 is a Swiss-built turboprop military trainer aircraft widely used for basic flight training by air forces around the world.
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B.
Pilatus PC-21
The Pilatus PC-21 is a Swiss-made, next-generation turboprop military trainer aircraft designed to provide jet-like performance and advanced training capabilities for fighter pilots.
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C.
Beechcraft T-6 Texan II
The Beechcraft T-6 Texan II is a single-engine turboprop military trainer aircraft widely used by air forces for primary and basic flight training.
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D.
Beechcraft King Air
The Beechcraft King Air is a family of twin-turboprop utility aircraft widely used around the world for military, government, and civilian transport, training, and special-mission roles.
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E.
Piper Saratoga
The Piper Saratoga is a high-performance, single-engine, six-seat light aircraft known for its use in general aviation and for being the model involved in the fatal crash of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military training aircraft
ⓘ
turboprop trainer aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory |
low-wing monoplane
ⓘ
single-engine ⓘ |
| armamentCapability | underwing hardpoints ⓘ |
| canBeEquippedWith |
gun pods
ⓘ
practice bombs ⓘ rocket pods ⓘ |
| cockpitConfiguration | tandem ⓘ |
| construction | all-metal ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Switzerland ⓘ |
| crew | 2 ⓘ |
| cruiseSpeed | 593 km/h ⓘ |
| emptyWeight | 1710 kg ⓘ |
| enginePower | 850 shp ⓘ |
| engineType | turboprop ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1984-05-07 ⓘ |
| firstOperator | Swiss Air Force ⓘ |
| gLimits |
+7 g
ⓘ
-3.5 g ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Beechcraft T-6 Texan II
ⓘ
Pilatus PC-9 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pilatus PC-9M
|
| height | 3.26 m ⓘ |
| introduced | 1985 ⓘ |
| introducedAsReplacementFor | older basic trainers ⓘ |
| landingGear | retractable tricycle ⓘ |
| length | 10.14 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Pilatus Aircraft ⓘ |
| maxSpeed |
320 knots
ⓘ
593 km/h ⓘ |
| maxTakeoffWeight | 3200 kg ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | over 250 ⓘ |
| originModel | Pilatus PC-7 ⓘ |
| powerplant |
Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A
ⓘ
surface form:
Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-62
|
| primaryUsers |
Irish Air Corps
ⓘ
Royal Australian Air Force ⓘ Royal Saudi Air Force ⓘ Swiss Air Force ⓘ |
| range | 1573 km ⓘ |
| role |
advanced trainer
ⓘ
basic trainer ⓘ |
| serviceCeiling | 11890 m ⓘ |
| status | in service ⓘ |
| successor | Pilatus PC-21 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
aerobatic training
ⓘ
pilot training ⓘ weapons training ⓘ |
| wingspan | 10.12 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: Pilatus PC-9 Description of subject: The Pilatus PC-9 is a Swiss-built turboprop training aircraft widely used by military air forces around the world for basic and advanced pilot instruction.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pilatus PC-9M
this entity surface form:
Pilatus PC-9A
this entity surface form:
Pilatus PC-9M
this entity surface form:
Pilatus PC-9M Hudournik
this entity surface form:
Pilatus PC-9M