Tomahawk
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Tomahawk is a variant name for the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, an American single-engine fighter and ground-attack aircraft widely used during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tomahawk canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4285018 — 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: Tomahawk Context triple: [Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, alsoKnownAs, Tomahawk]
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A.
Tomahawk cruise missile
The Tomahawk cruise missile is a long-range, precision-guided, subsonic missile widely used by the U.S. and allied navies for land-attack missions.
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B.
Stinger
Stinger is the anthropomorphic green hornet mascot of the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets, known for his energetic presence at games and team events.
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C.
Brimstone missile
The Brimstone missile is a British air-launched, precision-guided anti-armor and multi-role strike weapon designed for high accuracy against moving and static targets with minimal collateral damage.
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D.
Storm Shadow cruise missile
The Storm Shadow cruise missile is a long-range, air-launched, precision strike weapon designed to destroy high-value, heavily defended targets with a stealthy, low-observable flight profile.
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E.
The Corsair
The Corsair is a popular narrative poem by Lord Byron, first published in 1814, that tells the romantic and adventurous tale of a pirate hero and became a major literary sensation of its time.
- 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: Tomahawk Target entity description: Tomahawk is a variant name for the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, an American single-engine fighter and ground-attack aircraft widely used during World War II.
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A.
Tomahawk cruise missile
The Tomahawk cruise missile is a long-range, precision-guided, subsonic missile widely used by the U.S. and allied navies for land-attack missions.
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B.
Stinger
Stinger is the anthropomorphic green hornet mascot of the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets, known for his energetic presence at games and team events.
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C.
Brimstone missile
The Brimstone missile is a British air-launched, precision-guided anti-armor and multi-role strike weapon designed for high accuracy against moving and static targets with minimal collateral damage.
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D.
Storm Shadow cruise missile
The Storm Shadow cruise missile is a long-range, air-launched, precision strike weapon designed to destroy high-value, heavily defended targets with a stealthy, low-observable flight profile.
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E.
The Corsair
The Corsair is a popular narrative poem by Lord Byron, first published in 1814, that tells the romantic and adventurous tale of a pirate hero and became a major literary sensation of its time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aircraft variant name
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fighter aircraft variant ⓘ ground-attack aircraft variant ⓘ |
| aircraftConfiguration |
all-metal construction
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low-wing monoplane ⓘ single-engine ⓘ |
| aircraftRole |
fighter
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ground-attack ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| armament |
nose-mounted machine guns
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wing-mounted machine guns ⓘ |
| capability | bomb-carrying capability ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| crew | 1 ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Curtiss P-36 Hawk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engineType | piston engine ⓘ |
| introducedAsVariantOf | Curtiss P-40 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Curtiss-Wright Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namingConvention | British Commonwealth service name for early P-40 variants ⓘ |
| notableMarking | shark mouth nose art ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 1 ⓘ |
| operator |
Royal Air Force
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Royal Australian Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Canadian Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ Soviet Air Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Army Air Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Curtiss P-40 series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| powerplant | Allison V-1710 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryTheaterOfUse |
China-Burma-India Theater
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North African Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor |
Kittyhawk
NERFINISHED
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later Curtiss P-40 variants ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfUse | early years of World War II ⓘ |
| usedByUnit |
American Volunteer Group
NERFINISHED
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No. 112 Squadron RAF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
air superiority missions
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close air support ⓘ fighter escort ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | World War II ⓘ |
| variantOf | Curtiss P-40 Warhawk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Tomahawk Description of subject: Tomahawk is a variant name for the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, an American single-engine fighter and ground-attack aircraft widely used during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.