Tu-128
E241862
The Tu-128 was a large, long-range Soviet interceptor aircraft developed during the Cold War to defend the USSR’s vast northern frontiers against strategic bombers.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tu-128 canonical | 1 |
| Tu-128UT | 1 |
| Tupolev Tu-128 | 1 |
| Tupolev Tu‑128 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2109239 — 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: Tu-128 Context triple: [Soviet Air Defense Forces, operatedAircraft, Tu-128]
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A.
Tupolev Tu-2 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-2 bomber was a highly effective Soviet twin‑engine frontline bomber of World War II, known for its speed, payload capacity, and extensive use on the Eastern Front.
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B.
Tupolev Tu-16 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-16 bomber is a Soviet twin‑engine jet strategic bomber introduced in the 1950s, widely used for long-range bombing, maritime strike, and reconnaissance roles throughout the Cold War.
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C.
Tupolev Tu-22 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-22 is a Soviet-era supersonic long-range bomber designed during the Cold War for high-speed strike missions against strategic targets.
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D.
Il-28 bomber
The Il-28 bomber is a Soviet-era twin-engine jet light bomber widely used during the early Cold War for tactical bombing and training roles.
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E.
Su-11
The Su-11 was a Soviet supersonic interceptor aircraft developed in the early Cold War era to defend Soviet airspace against high-altitude threats.
- 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: Tu-128 Target entity description: The Tu-128 was a large, long-range Soviet interceptor aircraft developed during the Cold War to defend the USSR’s vast northern frontiers against strategic bombers.
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A.
Tupolev Tu-2 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-2 bomber was a highly effective Soviet twin‑engine frontline bomber of World War II, known for its speed, payload capacity, and extensive use on the Eastern Front.
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B.
Tupolev Tu-16 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-16 bomber is a Soviet twin‑engine jet strategic bomber introduced in the 1950s, widely used for long-range bombing, maritime strike, and reconnaissance roles throughout the Cold War.
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C.
Tupolev Tu-22 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-22 is a Soviet-era supersonic long-range bomber designed during the Cold War for high-speed strike missions against strategic targets.
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D.
Il-28 bomber
The Il-28 bomber is a Soviet-era twin-engine jet light bomber widely used during the early Cold War for tactical bombing and training roles.
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E.
Su-11
The Su-11 was a Soviet supersonic interceptor aircraft developed in the early Cold War era to defend Soviet airspace against high-altitude threats.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Tu-128 Description of subject: The Tu-128 was a large, long-range Soviet interceptor aircraft developed during the Cold War to defend the USSR’s vast northern frontiers against strategic bombers.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-128
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu‑128