Focke-Wulf Fw 200
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The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 was a German long-range airliner later adapted as a maritime patrol and bomber aircraft during World War II.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor | 3 |
| Focke-Wulf Fw 200 canonical | 1 |
| Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor airliner | 1 |
| Fw 200 C | 1 |
| Fw 200 Condor airliner and maritime patrol aircraft | 1 |
| Fw 200 series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1329132 — 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: Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Context triple: [BMW 132, usedInAircraft, Focke-Wulf Fw 200]
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A.
Heinkel He 111
The Heinkel He 111 was a German twin‑engine medium bomber widely used by the Luftwaffe during the early years of World War II, especially in major air campaigns over Europe.
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B.
Dornier Do 17
The Dornier Do 17 was a German World War II twin‑engine light bomber, nicknamed the “Flying Pencil” for its slender fuselage and widely used by the Luftwaffe in the early war years.
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C.
Dornier Do 217
The Dornier Do 217 was a German World War II twin-engine bomber and reconnaissance aircraft developed as a more powerful and versatile successor to earlier Dornier designs.
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D.
Junkers Ju 88
The Junkers Ju 88 was a highly versatile German World War II twin‑engine aircraft used extensively as a bomber, dive bomber, night fighter, and reconnaissance plane.
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E.
Heinkel He 115
The Heinkel He 115 was a German World War II-era twin-engine seaplane used primarily for maritime reconnaissance, torpedo bombing, and minelaying operations.
- 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: Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Target entity description: The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 was a German long-range airliner later adapted as a maritime patrol and bomber aircraft during World War II.
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A.
Heinkel He 111
The Heinkel He 111 was a German twin‑engine medium bomber widely used by the Luftwaffe during the early years of World War II, especially in major air campaigns over Europe.
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B.
Dornier Do 17
The Dornier Do 17 was a German World War II twin‑engine light bomber, nicknamed the “Flying Pencil” for its slender fuselage and widely used by the Luftwaffe in the early war years.
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C.
Dornier Do 217
The Dornier Do 217 was a German World War II twin-engine bomber and reconnaissance aircraft developed as a more powerful and versatile successor to earlier Dornier designs.
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D.
Junkers Ju 88
The Junkers Ju 88 was a highly versatile German World War II twin‑engine aircraft used extensively as a bomber, dive bomber, night fighter, and reconnaissance plane.
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E.
Heinkel He 115
The Heinkel He 115 was a German World War II-era twin-engine seaplane used primarily for maritime reconnaissance, torpedo bombing, and minelaying operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World War II aircraft
ⓘ
airliner ⓘ bomber aircraft ⓘ long-range airliner ⓘ maritime patrol aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory | four-engined propeller aircraft ⓘ |
| armament |
bombs
ⓘ
machine guns ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| crew | 5 ⓘ |
| designer | Kurt Tank ⓘ |
| engineType | piston engine ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1937-07-27 ⓘ |
| fuselageType | all-metal stressed-skin construction ⓘ |
| introduced | 1939 ⓘ |
| landingGear | retractable tailwheel landing gear ⓘ |
| laterAdaptedFor |
bombing missions
ⓘ
maritime patrol ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Focke-Wulf ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 360 km/h ⓘ |
| nicknamed | Condor ⓘ |
| notableVariant |
Focke-Wulf Fw 200
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Fw 200 C
|
| numberOfEngines | 4 ⓘ |
| operator |
Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service
ⓘ
Lufthansa ⓘ Luftwaffe ⓘ |
| originalPurpose | long-range commercial transport ⓘ |
| powerplant |
BMW 132 radial engine
ⓘ
Bramo 323 radial engine ⓘ |
| primaryUser |
Lufthansa
ⓘ
Luftwaffe ⓘ |
| productionPeriod |
early 1940s
ⓘ
late 1930s ⓘ |
| range | 3500 km ⓘ |
| retired | 1945 ⓘ |
| role |
anti-shipping bomber
ⓘ
civil airliner ⓘ maritime reconnaissance ⓘ |
| serviceCeiling | 6000 m ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | single vertical stabilizer ⓘ |
| usedAs | Hitler’s personal transport in modified form ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Germany
ⓘ
Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Atlantic convoy attacks
ⓘ
long-range reconnaissance over the Atlantic ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | World War II ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | low-wing monoplane ⓘ |
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: Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Description of subject: The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 was a German long-range airliner later adapted as a maritime patrol and bomber aircraft during World War II.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fw 200 Condor airliner and maritime patrol aircraft
this entity surface form:
Fw 200 series
this entity surface form:
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor airliner
this entity surface form:
Fw 200 C
this entity surface form:
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor
subject surface form:
Henschel Hs 293
this entity surface form:
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor