Allison V-1710

E175379

V-12 engine aircraft engine liquid-cooled piston engine

The Allison V-1710 is an American liquid-cooled V-12 aircraft engine widely used in World War II fighters, including early variants of the P-51 Mustang and the P-38 Lightning.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Allison V-1710 canonical	5
Allison V-1710 engine	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	V-12 engine ⓘ aircraft engine ⓘ liquid-cooled piston engine ⓘ
applicationType	single-engine fighters ⓘ twin-engine fighters ⓘ
bore	5.5 inches ⓘ
configuration	V-12 ⓘ
coolingSystem	liquid-cooled ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
cylinderArrangement	60-degree V ⓘ
cylinders	12 ⓘ
displacement	1710 cubic inches ⓘ 28.0 liters ⓘ
era	World War II ⓘ
firstRunDate	late 1930s ⓘ
fuelSystem	carbureted in early versions ⓘ fuel injection in some later versions ⓘ
fuelType	aviation gasoline ⓘ
ignitionSystem	dual ignition ⓘ
manufacturer	Allison Engine Company ⓘ
notableApplication	Lockheed P-38 Lightning ⓘ surface form: twin-engine P-38 Lightning with counter-rotating propellers
notableFeature	ability to be installed in both tractor and pusher configurations ⓘ designed for turbo-supercharging in some installations ⓘ modular design ⓘ
notableLimitation	reduced high-altitude performance without turbo-supercharger ⓘ
otherUser	Royal Air Force ⓘ Soviet Air Forces ⓘ
powerOutputRange	approximately 1000 to 1600 horsepower ⓘ
primaryUser	United States Army Air Forces ⓘ
productionPeriod	approximately 1939 to 1948 ⓘ
productionQuantity	over 69,000 units produced ⓘ
role	fighter aircraft powerplant ⓘ reconnaissance aircraft powerplant ⓘ
serviceEntry	early 1940s ⓘ
stroke	6 inches ⓘ
successorEngine	Packard-built Rolls-Royce Merlin in later P-51 variants ⓘ
supercharging	single-stage mechanically driven supercharger ⓘ
usedInAircraft	Bell P-39 Airacobra ⓘ Bell P-39 Airacobra ⓘ surface form: Bell P-63 Kingcobra Curtiss P-40 Warhawk ⓘ Curtiss XP-55 Ascender ⓘ Douglas A-33 ⓘ Fisher P-75 Eagle ⓘ Lockheed P-38 Lightning ⓘ Lockheed XP-49 ⓘ Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning ⓘ North American P-51 Mustang ⓘ surface form: North American P-51 Mustang early variants North American XB-21 testbed ⓘ
usedInConflict	World War II ⓘ surface form: Second World War
valvetrain	overhead camshaft ⓘ

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: Allison V-1710
Description of subject: The Allison V-1710 is an American liquid-cooled V-12 aircraft engine widely used in World War II fighters, including early variants of the P-51 Mustang and the P-38 Lightning.

Referenced by (6)

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

North American P-51 Mustang → notableEngine → Allison V-1710 ⓘ

Lockheed P-38 Lightning → engineModel → Allison V-1710 ⓘ

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk → powerplant → Allison V-1710 ⓘ

Bell P-39 Airacobra → engineModel → Allison V-1710 ⓘ

A-36 Apache → engineModel → Allison V-1710 ⓘ

Allison Engine Company → notableProduct → Allison V-1710 ⓘ

this entity surface form: Allison V-1710 engine