Oboe

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World War II military technology radio navigation system

Oboe was a World War II British radio navigation system that enabled highly accurate target marking and bombing by Allied aircraft.

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All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Duck – oboe 1
Oboe canonical 1
Oboe One 1

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II military technology ⓘ
radio navigation system ⓘ
accuracy on the order of a few tens of yards at target ⓘ
advantageOverPredecessors much higher accuracy ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Oboe bombing aid ⓘ
category British World War II navigation and bombing system ⓘ
military radio navigation system ⓘ
classificationStatusDuringWar highly secret ⓘ
componentOf RAF Bomber Command navigation aids ⓘ
conflict World War II ⓘ
countermeasuresFaced German jamming attempts ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
developedBy British scientists and engineers ⓘ
Royal Air Force Bomber Command ⓘ
developedFor RAF Pathfinder Force ⓘ
enables blind bombing through cloud ⓘ
highly accurate bombing ⓘ
introducedInPeriod early 1940s ⓘ
limitation could guide only a small number of aircraft at once ⓘ
limited range due to curvature of the Earth ⓘ
notableFeature aircraft carried only a transponder ⓘ
ground-based transmitters controlled aircraft track ⓘ
operatedBy ground controllers ⓘ
operationalPrinciple measuring aircraft distance from ground stations ⓘ
radio transponder ranging ⓘ
operationalUse guiding aircraft along a circular arc to target ⓘ
predecessor Gee navigation system ⓘ
primaryFunction bombing navigation ⓘ
target marking ⓘ
rangeLimitationCause line-of-sight radio propagation ⓘ
signalType VHF radio signals ⓘ
successor later microwave and radar bombing systems ⓘ
tacticalRole precision marking for main bomber force ⓘ
typicalCarrierAircraft de Havilland Mosquito ⓘ
typicalRange approximately 270 miles from ground station ⓘ
usedAgainst targets in Germany ⓘ
targets in occupied Europe ⓘ
usedBy Royal Air Force ⓘ
usedFor guiding Mosquito bombers ⓘ
marking targets for Pathfinder aircraft ⓘ
usedInTheatre European theatre of World War II ⓘ

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: Oboe
Description of subject: Oboe was a World War II British radio navigation system that enabled highly accurate target marking and bombing by Allied aircraft.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command → usedNavigationAid → Oboe ⓘ
Telecommunications Research Establishment → notableWork → Oboe ⓘ
this entity surface form: Oboe navigation system
Borneo campaign (1945) → includes → Oboe ⓘ
this entity surface form: Oboe One
Borneo campaign (1945) → includes → Oboe ⓘ
this entity surface form: Oboe Six
Borneo campaign (1945) → includes → Oboe ⓘ
this entity surface form: Oboe Two
Peter and the Wolf → instrumentMotifForCharacter → Oboe ⓘ
this entity surface form: Duck – oboe