Lightning F.6
E507935
The Lightning F.6 was a late, highly refined variant of the British English Electric Lightning supersonic interceptor, featuring improved range, avionics, and weapons for Royal Air Force air defense duties.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lightning F.6 canonical | 1 |
| Lightning fighter | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5207669 — 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: Lightning F.6 Context triple: [English Electric Lightning, airForceDesignation, Lightning F.6]
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A.
Lightning F.3
The Lightning F.3 was a major variant of the British English Electric Lightning supersonic interceptor, featuring improved performance and avionics for Royal Air Force air defense duties during the Cold War.
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B.
Lightning F.2
The Lightning F.2 was a major early production variant of the British English Electric Lightning supersonic interceptor, featuring improved avionics and armament for Royal Air Force service during the Cold War.
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C.
Swift F.1
The Swift F.1 was an early production variant of the British Supermarine Swift jet fighter, used briefly by the Royal Air Force in the 1950s.
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D.
Blackburn Firebrand
The Blackburn Firebrand was a British single-seat carrier-borne strike fighter developed during World War II that ultimately saw limited postwar service with the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm.
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E.
Folland Gnat T.1
The Folland Gnat T.1 is a British jet trainer aircraft best known for its agile performance and use by the RAF’s Red Arrows display team.
- 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: Lightning F.6 Target entity description: The Lightning F.6 was a late, highly refined variant of the British English Electric Lightning supersonic interceptor, featuring improved range, avionics, and weapons for Royal Air Force air defense duties.
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A.
Lightning F.3
The Lightning F.3 was a major variant of the British English Electric Lightning supersonic interceptor, featuring improved performance and avionics for Royal Air Force air defense duties during the Cold War.
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B.
Lightning F.2
The Lightning F.2 was a major early production variant of the British English Electric Lightning supersonic interceptor, featuring improved avionics and armament for Royal Air Force service during the Cold War.
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C.
Swift F.1
The Swift F.1 was an early production variant of the British Supermarine Swift jet fighter, used briefly by the Royal Air Force in the 1950s.
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D.
Blackburn Firebrand
The Blackburn Firebrand was a British single-seat carrier-borne strike fighter developed during World War II that ultimately saw limited postwar service with the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm.
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E.
Folland Gnat T.1
The Folland Gnat T.1 is a British jet trainer aircraft best known for its agile performance and use by the RAF’s Red Arrows display team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English Electric Lightning variant
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fighter aircraft variant ⓘ supersonic interceptor aircraft ⓘ |
| afterburning | yes ⓘ |
| aircraftFamily | English Electric Lightning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| avionics | AI.23B radar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | English Electric Lightning airframe ⓘ |
| category |
interceptor aircraft
ⓘ
jet aircraft ⓘ military aircraft ⓘ |
| cockpitConfiguration | single-seat ⓘ |
| configuration | twin-engine ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crew | 1 ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Lightning F.3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enteredServiceWith | Royal Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Cold War ⓘ |
| feature |
improved range compared to earlier Lightning marks
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increased internal fuel capacity ⓘ overwing fuel tanks capability ⓘ refined aerodynamics ⓘ revised wing with kinked leading edge ⓘ upgraded avionics suite ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1964 ⓘ |
| gunArmament | 2 × 30 mm ADEN cannon ⓘ |
| introduced | 1965 ⓘ |
| laterManufacturer | British Aircraft Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | English Electric NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | over Mach 2 ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| powerplant | 2 × Rolls-Royce Avon 301R turbojet engines ⓘ |
| primaryArmament |
Firestreak air-to-air missiles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Red Top air-to-air missiles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFromService | late 1980s ⓘ |
| role | air defence interceptor ⓘ |
| serviceBranch |
RAF Fighter Command
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RAF Strike Command NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceCeiling | over 50,000 ft ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successorInRAFService |
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Panavia Tornado F3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| survivingExamples | museum exhibits and privately owned aircraft ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | conventional tailplane ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Quick Reaction Alert duties
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United Kingdom airspace interception ⓘ |
| usedIn | NATO air defence during the Cold War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | swept wing ⓘ |
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: Lightning F.6 Description of subject: The Lightning F.6 was a late, highly refined variant of the British English Electric Lightning supersonic interceptor, featuring improved range, avionics, and weapons for Royal Air Force air defense duties.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lightning fighter