Short Skyvan
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The Short Skyvan is a British twin-engine, boxy-fuselage utility aircraft known for its excellent short takeoff and landing performance and use in cargo, passenger, and skydiving operations.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Short Skyvan canonical | 1 |
| Skyvan 3A | 1 |
| Skyvan 3M | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3746234 — 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: Short Skyvan Context triple: [Short Brothers, notableProduct, Short Skyvan]
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A.
Sully Wing
Sully Wing is one of the main historic wings of the Louvre Museum in Paris, housing collections such as ancient Near Eastern antiquities and French paintings.
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B.
Cessna 208 Caravan
The Cessna 208 Caravan is a single-engine turboprop utility aircraft widely used for regional passenger service, cargo transport, and short takeoff and landing operations.
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C.
Ramport Aero
Ramport Aero is the company responsible for managing and operating Zhukovsky International Airport near Moscow, Russia.
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D.
Cessna 402
The Cessna 402 is a twin-engine light aircraft commonly used for regional commuter, air taxi, and cargo operations due to its reliability and ability to serve short-haul routes.
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E.
Twin Otter
The Twin Otter is a rugged, twin‑engine turboprop utility aircraft renowned for its short takeoff and landing capabilities and use on regional and remote routes.
- 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: Short Skyvan Target entity description: The Short Skyvan is a British twin-engine, boxy-fuselage utility aircraft known for its excellent short takeoff and landing performance and use in cargo, passenger, and skydiving operations.
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A.
Sully Wing
Sully Wing is one of the main historic wings of the Louvre Museum in Paris, housing collections such as ancient Near Eastern antiquities and French paintings.
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B.
Cessna 208 Caravan
The Cessna 208 Caravan is a single-engine turboprop utility aircraft widely used for regional passenger service, cargo transport, and short takeoff and landing operations.
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C.
Ramport Aero
Ramport Aero is the company responsible for managing and operating Zhukovsky International Airport near Moscow, Russia.
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D.
Cessna 402
The Cessna 402 is a twin-engine light aircraft commonly used for regional commuter, air taxi, and cargo operations due to its reliability and ability to serve short-haul routes.
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E.
Twin Otter
The Twin Otter is a rugged, twin‑engine turboprop utility aircraft renowned for its short takeoff and landing capabilities and use on regional and remote routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
STOL aircraft
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twin‑engine aircraft ⓘ utility aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory | light transport aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftConfiguration |
fixed tricycle landing gear
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high‑wing ⓘ twin‑tail ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Skyvan ⓘ |
| cabinType | unpressurised cabin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crew | 2 ⓘ |
| designedBy | Short Brothers design team ⓘ |
| designGoal | operate from short and rough airstrips ⓘ |
| engineType | turboprop ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1960s ⓘ |
| firstFlightDate | 1963 ⓘ |
| fuselageShape | boxy fuselage ⓘ |
| landingGearType | fixed landing gear ⓘ |
| loadingMethod | rear ramp loading ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Short Brothers ⓘ |
| marketedAs |
Short Skyvan
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Skyvan 3A
Short Skyvan self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Skyvan 3M
|
| notableFeature |
excellent short takeoff and landing performance
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large rear cargo door ⓘ |
| notableFor |
good low‑speed handling characteristics
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rugged construction ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | about 150 ⓘ |
| operatorType |
civil operators
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military operators ⓘ |
| powerplant | twin turboprop engines ⓘ |
| primaryUse | civil aviation ⓘ |
| productionStatus | out of production ⓘ |
| role |
cargo transport
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parachute training aircraft ⓘ passenger transport ⓘ skydiving aircraft ⓘ |
| successor |
Short 330
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Short 360 ⓘ |
| tailType | twin‑boom tail ⓘ |
| typicalPassengerCapacity | 19 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
aerial survey
ⓘ
military transport ⓘ paratroop training ⓘ regional passenger services ⓘ short‑haul cargo operations ⓘ |
| usedIn | skydiving operations worldwide ⓘ |
| wingType | rectangular high 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: Short Skyvan Description of subject: The Short Skyvan is a British twin-engine, boxy-fuselage utility aircraft known for its excellent short takeoff and landing performance and use in cargo, passenger, and skydiving operations.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Skyvan 3M
this entity surface form:
Skyvan 3A