Boeing 747
E22746
The Boeing 747 is a wide-body, long-range commercial airliner famous for its distinctive hump-backed upper deck and for revolutionizing mass international air travel as one of the first jumbo jets.
All labels observed (26)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T172571 — 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: Boeing 747 Context triple: [Boeing, notableProduct, Boeing 747]
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A.
Boeing 707
The Boeing 707 is a pioneering American jet airliner introduced in the late 1950s that helped usher in the modern era of commercial jet travel.
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B.
Boeing 747SP
The Boeing 747SP is a shortened, long-range variant of the Boeing 747 airliner, notable for its use in specialized roles such as NASA’s SOFIA airborne observatory.
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C.
Boeing 737
The Boeing 737 is a widely used narrow-body commercial jet airliner known for being one of the best-selling passenger aircraft in aviation history.
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D.
Boeing 727
The Boeing 727 is a mid-sized, three-engine narrow-body jet airliner introduced in the 1960s that became one of the most widely used commercial aircraft for short- and medium-haul routes.
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E.
B-29 Superfortress
The B-29 Superfortress was a long-range, four-engine heavy bomber developed by the United States during World War II, notable for its advanced technology and its role in strategic bombing campaigns over Japan.
- 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: Boeing 747 Target entity description: The Boeing 747 is a wide-body, long-range commercial airliner famous for its distinctive hump-backed upper deck and for revolutionizing mass international air travel as one of the first jumbo jets.
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A.
Boeing 707
The Boeing 707 is a pioneering American jet airliner introduced in the late 1950s that helped usher in the modern era of commercial jet travel.
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B.
Boeing 747SP
The Boeing 747SP is a shortened, long-range variant of the Boeing 747 airliner, notable for its use in specialized roles such as NASA’s SOFIA airborne observatory.
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C.
Boeing 737
The Boeing 737 is a widely used narrow-body commercial jet airliner known for being one of the best-selling passenger aircraft in aviation history.
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D.
Boeing 727
The Boeing 727 is a mid-sized, three-engine narrow-body jet airliner introduced in the 1960s that became one of the most widely used commercial aircraft for short- and medium-haul routes.
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E.
B-29 Superfortress
The B-29 Superfortress was a long-range, four-engine heavy bomber developed by the United States during World War II, notable for its advanced technology and its role in strategic bombing campaigns over Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jet airliner
ⓘ
jumbo jet ⓘ long-range airliner ⓘ wide-body commercial airliner ⓘ |
| aircraftConfiguration | fixed-wing ⓘ |
| aircraftRole | long-haul wide-body airliner ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designedBy | Boeing engineering team led by Joe Sutter ⓘ |
| developmentStartDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| distinctiveFeature |
hump-backed upper deck
ⓘ
raised cockpit ⓘ |
| engineType | turbofan ⓘ |
| firstFlightDate | 1969-02-09 ⓘ |
| fuselageType | wide-body ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Boeing 747
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Boeing 747-100
Boeing 747 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing 747-200
Boeing 747 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing 747-300
Boeing 747 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing 747-400
Boeing 747 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing 747-400F
Boeing 747 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing 747-8
Boeing 747 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing 747-8F
Boeing 747SP ⓘ |
| introducedIntoService | 1970-01-22 ⓘ |
| landingGearType | tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| launchCustomer | Pan American World Airways ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Boeing
ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
|
| nicknamed |
Boeing 747
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Jumbo Jet
Queen of the Skies ⓘ |
| numberOfDecks | partial double-deck ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 4 ⓘ |
| pressurizedCabin | yes ⓘ |
| primaryUse | passenger transport ⓘ |
| productionEndYear | 2022 ⓘ |
| productionStartYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| productionStatus | out of production ⓘ |
| revolutionized | mass international air travel ⓘ |
| secondaryUse |
VIP transport
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cargo transport ⓘ military transport ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | conventional tail ⓘ |
| totalProducedApprox | over 1500 units ⓘ |
| typicalCrew |
2 pilots
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cabin crew depending on configuration ⓘ |
| typicalCruiseSpeed |
Mach 0.85
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about 570 mph ⓘ |
| typicalRange | over 8000 km ⓘ |
| typicalTwoClassCapacity | around 400 passengers ⓘ |
| usedAs | Air Force One (VC-25 variant) ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | low-wing cantilever 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: Boeing 747 Description of subject: The Boeing 747 is a wide-body, long-range commercial airliner famous for its distinctive hump-backed upper deck and for revolutionizing mass international air travel as one of the first jumbo jets.
Referenced by (98)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747 family
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-100
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-200
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-300
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-400
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-8
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-200B
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747 (on some routes)
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-400
subject surface form:
PW4000-94
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-400
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-8
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-8
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-100
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747 (leased)
this entity surface form:
FedEx cargo plane
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-400F
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-400F
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-41R
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-400
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-400
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-400 carrier aircraft
subject surface form:
PW4000-94 inch fan series
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-400
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-100
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-121
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747-100
this entity surface form:
Boeing 747 freighter (historical)