Junkers G 38
E241544
The Junkers G 38 was a large German four-engined transport aircraft of the late 1920s and early 1930s, notable for its distinctive thick wing that housed passenger cabins.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Junkers G 38 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1329138 — 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: Junkers G 38 Context triple: [BMW 132, usedInAircraft, Junkers G 38]
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A.
Junkers W 34
The Junkers W 34 is a German single-engine transport and utility aircraft from the late 1920s and 1930s, widely used for civil and military purposes and notable for setting several aviation records.
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B.
Heinkel He 70
The Heinkel He 70 was a German single-engine, fast mailplane and passenger aircraft of the early 1930s that later served as a reconnaissance and light bomber for the Luftwaffe.
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C.
Heinkel He 112
The Heinkel He 112 was a German pre–World War II single-seat fighter aircraft that competed unsuccessfully against the Messerschmitt Bf 109 to become the Luftwaffe’s primary fighter.
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D.
Heinkel He 51
The Heinkel He 51 was a German single-seat biplane fighter of the 1930s used by the Luftwaffe in the early years of its rearmament.
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E.
Junkers Ju 86
The Junkers Ju 86 was a German twin‑engine aircraft of the 1930s used primarily as a medium bomber and later adapted for high‑altitude reconnaissance during World War II.
- 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: Junkers G 38 Target entity description: The Junkers G 38 was a large German four-engined transport aircraft of the late 1920s and early 1930s, notable for its distinctive thick wing that housed passenger cabins.
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A.
Junkers W 34
The Junkers W 34 is a German single-engine transport and utility aircraft from the late 1920s and 1930s, widely used for civil and military purposes and notable for setting several aviation records.
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B.
Heinkel He 70
The Heinkel He 70 was a German single-engine, fast mailplane and passenger aircraft of the early 1930s that later served as a reconnaissance and light bomber for the Luftwaffe.
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C.
Heinkel He 112
The Heinkel He 112 was a German pre–World War II single-seat fighter aircraft that competed unsuccessfully against the Messerschmitt Bf 109 to become the Luftwaffe’s primary fighter.
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D.
Heinkel He 51
The Heinkel He 51 was a German single-seat biplane fighter of the 1930s used by the Luftwaffe in the early years of its rearmament.
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E.
Junkers Ju 86
The Junkers Ju 86 was a German twin‑engine aircraft of the 1930s used primarily as a medium bomber and later adapted for high‑altitude reconnaissance during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German aircraft
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airliner ⓘ four-engined aircraft ⓘ transport aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftRole |
long-range transport
ⓘ
mailplane ⓘ |
| civilRegistration |
D-2000
ⓘ
D-2500 ⓘ |
| construction | all-metal ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| crew | 7 ⓘ |
| cruiseSpeed | 200 km/h ⓘ |
| designFeature |
multi-crew flight deck with separate navigator and radio operator stations
ⓘ
passenger lounge in fuselage nose ⓘ |
| developedInto | Mitsubishi Ki-20 ⓘ |
| engineConfiguration | four engines ⓘ |
| era | interwar period ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1929-11-06 ⓘ |
| height | 7.20 m ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
one of the largest landplanes of its time
ⓘ
pioneered wing-integrated passenger accommodation ⓘ |
| introduced | 1929 ⓘ |
| laterMilitaryDesignation | K 51 ⓘ |
| length | 23.20 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Junkers ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 235 km/h ⓘ |
| maximumTakeoffWeight | 24,000 kg ⓘ |
| NATOname | none ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
corrugated duralumin skin
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passenger cabins inside the wings ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | 2 ⓘ |
| operator |
Lufthansa
ⓘ
surface form:
Deutsche Luft Hansa
Luftwaffe ⓘ |
| passengerCapacity | 30 ⓘ |
| powerplant |
Junkers Jumo diesel engines
ⓘ
surface form:
Junkers Jumo 204 engines
Junkers L 55 engines ⓘ |
| primaryUser | Lufthansa ⓘ |
| range | 3,000 km ⓘ |
| retired | 1941 ⓘ |
| serviceCeiling | 4,000 m ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| survivingExamples | 0 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Berlin–London route
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Berlin–Rome route ⓘ European long-distance routes ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | low-wing monoplane ⓘ |
| wingspan | 44.00 m ⓘ |
| wingType | thick wing ⓘ |
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: Junkers G 38 Description of subject: The Junkers G 38 was a large German four-engined transport aircraft of the late 1920s and early 1930s, notable for its distinctive thick wing that housed passenger cabins.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.