Convair 990 Coronado
E283807
The Convair 990 Coronado was a narrow-body jet airliner introduced in the early 1960s, known for being one of the fastest commercial passenger aircraft ever built.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Convair 990 Coronado canonical | 3 |
| Convair 990 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2494545 — 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: Convair 990 Coronado Context triple: [Convair, notableProduct, Convair 990 Coronado]
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A.
Convair 440
The Convair 440 is a twin-engine, short- to medium-range commercial airliner developed in the 1950s as an improved, pressurized variant of Convair’s successful series of piston-powered passenger aircraft.
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B.
Convair 240
The Convair 240 is a twin‑engine, pressurized short- to medium-haul airliner introduced in the late 1940s and widely used by airlines and military operators around the world.
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C.
Convair 880
The Convair 880 was a narrow-body jet airliner introduced in the early 1960s, known for its high speed but limited commercial success compared to contemporaries like the Boeing 707.
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D.
Beechcraft King Air
The Beechcraft King Air is a family of twin-turboprop utility aircraft widely used around the world for military, government, and civilian transport, training, and special-mission roles.
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E.
Lockheed Hudson
The Lockheed Hudson was an American-built light bomber and maritime patrol aircraft widely used by Allied forces, particularly early in World War II for coastal reconnaissance, anti-submarine warfare, and convoy protection.
- 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: Convair 990 Coronado Target entity description: The Convair 990 Coronado was a narrow-body jet airliner introduced in the early 1960s, known for being one of the fastest commercial passenger aircraft ever built.
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A.
Convair 440
The Convair 440 is a twin-engine, short- to medium-range commercial airliner developed in the 1950s as an improved, pressurized variant of Convair’s successful series of piston-powered passenger aircraft.
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B.
Convair 240
The Convair 240 is a twin‑engine, pressurized short- to medium-haul airliner introduced in the late 1940s and widely used by airlines and military operators around the world.
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C.
Convair 880
The Convair 880 was a narrow-body jet airliner introduced in the early 1960s, known for its high speed but limited commercial success compared to contemporaries like the Boeing 707.
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D.
Beechcraft King Air
The Beechcraft King Air is a family of twin-turboprop utility aircraft widely used around the world for military, government, and civilian transport, training, and special-mission roles.
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E.
Lockheed Hudson
The Lockheed Hudson was an American-built light bomber and maritime patrol aircraft widely used by Allied forces, particularly early in World War II for coastal reconnaissance, anti-submarine warfare, and convoy protection.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial passenger aircraft
ⓘ
jet airliner ⓘ narrow-body airliner ⓘ |
| aircraftConfiguration | low-wing monoplane ⓘ |
| aircraftRole | medium- to long-range airliner ⓘ |
| airlineCustomer |
American Airlines
ⓘ
Avianca ⓘ Balair ⓘ Garuda Indonesia ⓘ
surface form:
Garuda Indonesian Airways
Middle East Airlines ⓘ Modern Air Transport ⓘ SAS ⓘ Aviaco ⓘ
surface form:
Spantax
Swissair ⓘ Varig ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
CV-990
ⓘ
Convair 990 Coronado ⓘ
surface form:
Convair 990
|
| competedWith |
Boeing 707
ⓘ
Douglas DC-8 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designFeature |
anti-shock bodies on wings
ⓘ
slender fuselage ⓘ swept wings ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Convair 880 ⓘ |
| engineModel |
General Electric CJ-805-3 turbojet
ⓘ
surface form:
General Electric CJ805-23
|
| engineType | turbofan ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1962 ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1961 ⓘ |
| fuselageType | narrow-body ⓘ |
| height | approximately 11.5 m ⓘ |
| introduced | early 1960s ⓘ |
| landingGearType | tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| length | approximately 42.5 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Convair
ⓘ
Convair ⓘ
surface form:
General Dynamics Convair division
|
| maximumCruiseSpeed |
approximately 990 km/h
ⓘ
approximately Mach 0.89 ⓘ |
| maximumSeatingCapacity | around 121 passengers ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the fastest subsonic commercial airliners ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | 37 ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 4 ⓘ |
| primaryLaunchCustomer | American Airlines ⓘ |
| productionPeriod | early 1960s ⓘ |
| range | approximately 6,000 km ⓘ |
| retired | 1987 ⓘ |
| status | out of service ⓘ |
| successor | none (Convair exited jet airliner market) ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | conventional tail ⓘ |
| typicalSeatingCapacity | around 96 passengers ⓘ |
| wingspan | approximately 36.6 m ⓘ |
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: Convair 990 Coronado Description of subject: The Convair 990 Coronado was a narrow-body jet airliner introduced in the early 1960s, known for being one of the fastest commercial passenger aircraft ever built.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Convair 990