Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
E552018
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 was a scheduled passenger flight that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa in March 2019, killing all 157 people on board and leading to the worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX fleet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5848611 — 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: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Context triple: [Boeing 737 MAX 8, notableAccident, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302]
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A.
EgyptAir Flight 804
EgyptAir Flight 804 was a scheduled passenger flight from Paris to Cairo that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea in May 2016, killing all 66 people on board and prompting extensive international investigation.
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B.
Air France Flight 4590
Air France Flight 4590 was the Concorde supersonic passenger jet that crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris in 2000, killing all on board and effectively leading to the end of Concorde’s commercial service.
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C.
Air France Flight 447
Air France Flight 447 was a 2009 transatlantic passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people on board and prompting major changes in aviation safety and pilot training.
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D.
EgyptAir Flight 990
EgyptAir Flight 990 was a scheduled passenger flight from New York to Cairo that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1999 under controversial circumstances, killing all on board.
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E.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 people on board and becoming a major international aviation and geopolitical tragedy.
- 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: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Target entity description: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 was a scheduled passenger flight that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa in March 2019, killing all 157 people on board and leading to the worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX fleet.
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A.
EgyptAir Flight 804
EgyptAir Flight 804 was a scheduled passenger flight from Paris to Cairo that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea in May 2016, killing all 66 people on board and prompting extensive international investigation.
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B.
Air France Flight 4590
Air France Flight 4590 was the Concorde supersonic passenger jet that crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris in 2000, killing all on board and effectively leading to the end of Concorde’s commercial service.
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C.
Air France Flight 447
Air France Flight 447 was a 2009 transatlantic passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people on board and prompting major changes in aviation safety and pilot training.
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D.
EgyptAir Flight 990
EgyptAir Flight 990 was a scheduled passenger flight from New York to Cairo that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1999 under controversial circumstances, killing all on board.
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E.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 people on board and becoming a major international aviation and geopolitical tragedy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aviation accident
ⓘ
commercial passenger flight ⓘ |
| aircraftFamily | Boeing 737 MAX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftFirstFlightYear | 2018 ⓘ |
| aircraftManufacturer | Boeing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftRegistration | ET-AVJ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftSerialNumber | 62450 ⓘ |
| aircraftType | Boeing 737 MAX 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| airline | Ethiopian Airlines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| assistingInvestigationAuthority |
Federal Aviation Administration
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. National Transportation Safety Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| callsign | ETHIOPIAN 302 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeRelatedTo |
MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
aircraft design issues ⓘ erroneous angle-of-attack sensor data ⓘ inadequate pilot training on MCAS ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator | Ethiopia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crashLocationCountry | Ethiopia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crashLocationNear | Bishoftu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crashLocationRegion | Oromia Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| date | 2019-03-10 ⓘ |
| destinationAirport | Jomo Kenyatta International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destinationCity | Nairobi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destinationCountry | Kenya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatalities | 157 ⓘ |
| flightNumber | ET302 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| groundFatalities | 0 ⓘ |
| IATAFlightNumber | ET302 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAOFlightNumber | ETH302 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| investigatingAuthority | Ethiopian Accident Investigation Bureau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ledTo |
changes in pilot training requirements for 737 MAX
ⓘ
multiple investigations into Boeing 737 MAX certification ⓘ regulatory scrutiny of Boeing and the FAA ⓘ revisions to MCAS software ⓘ worldwide grounding of Boeing 737 MAX fleet ⓘ |
| month | March ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the deadliest aviation accidents involving a Boeing 737 MAX
ⓘ
triggering global reevaluation of aircraft certification processes ⓘ |
| numberOfCrew | 8 ⓘ |
| numberOfPassengers | 149 ⓘ |
| originAirport | Addis Ababa Bole International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originCity | Addis Ababa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originCountry | Ethiopia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phaseOfFlightAtAccident | initial climb ⓘ |
| precededBy | Lion Air Flight 610 crash ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Boeing 737 MAX groundings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeType | international ⓘ |
| serviceType | scheduled passenger flight ⓘ |
| survivors | 0 ⓘ |
| timeAfterTakeoffWhenCrashed | approximately 6 minutes ⓘ |
| totalOccupants | 157 ⓘ |
| year | 2019 ⓘ |
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: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Description of subject: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 was a scheduled passenger flight that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa in March 2019, killing all 157 people on board and leading to the worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX fleet.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.