Tupolev Tu-104 jet airliner
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The Tupolev Tu-104 was one of the world’s first successful jet airliners, developed in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and used extensively by Aeroflot for medium-range passenger flights.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tupolev Tu-104 | 7 |
| Tupolev Tu-104 (transport variants) | 1 |
| Tupolev Tu-104 jet airliner canonical | 1 |
| Tupolev Tu-107 | 1 |
| Tupolev Tu-110 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T473971 — 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: Tupolev Tu-104 jet airliner Context triple: [Andrei Tupolev, notableWork, Tupolev Tu-104 jet airliner]
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A.
Tupolev Tu-4 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-4 bomber is a Soviet long-range strategic bomber developed in the late 1940s as a reverse-engineered copy of the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
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B.
Tupolev Tu-2 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-2 bomber was a highly effective Soviet twin‑engine frontline bomber of World War II, known for its speed, payload capacity, and extensive use on the Eastern Front.
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C.
Tupolev Tu-16 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-16 bomber is a Soviet twin‑engine jet strategic bomber introduced in the 1950s, widely used for long-range bombing, maritime strike, and reconnaissance roles throughout the Cold War.
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D.
Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky
The Tupolev ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky" was a Soviet eight-engine propaganda and passenger aircraft of the 1930s, famed as one of the largest and most ambitious airplanes of its era.
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E.
Tupolev
Tupolev is a Russian aerospace and defense company best known for designing and producing military and civilian aircraft, including strategic bombers and airliners.
- 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: Tupolev Tu-104 jet airliner Target entity description: The Tupolev Tu-104 was one of the world’s first successful jet airliners, developed in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and used extensively by Aeroflot for medium-range passenger flights.
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A.
Tupolev Tu-4 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-4 bomber is a Soviet long-range strategic bomber developed in the late 1940s as a reverse-engineered copy of the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
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B.
Tupolev Tu-2 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-2 bomber was a highly effective Soviet twin‑engine frontline bomber of World War II, known for its speed, payload capacity, and extensive use on the Eastern Front.
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C.
Tupolev Tu-16 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-16 bomber is a Soviet twin‑engine jet strategic bomber introduced in the 1950s, widely used for long-range bombing, maritime strike, and reconnaissance roles throughout the Cold War.
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D.
Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky
The Tupolev ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky" was a Soviet eight-engine propaganda and passenger aircraft of the 1930s, famed as one of the largest and most ambitious airplanes of its era.
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E.
Tupolev
Tupolev is a Russian aerospace and defense company best known for designing and producing military and civilian aircraft, including strategic bombers and airliners.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jet airliner
ⓘ
medium-range airliner ⓘ narrow-body airliner ⓘ |
| aircraftRole |
passenger airliner
ⓘ
transport aircraft ⓘ |
| airlineServiceType | medium-haul routes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crew | 5 ⓘ |
| cruiseSpeed | 800 km/h ⓘ |
| designFeature |
fuselage derived from Tu-16 bomber
ⓘ
swept wings ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
Tupolev Tu-16 bomber
ⓘ
surface form:
Tupolev Tu-16
|
| emptyWeight | 42000 kg ⓘ |
| engineCount | 2 ⓘ |
| engineType | turbojet ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1956 ⓘ |
| firstFlightDate | 1955-06-17 ⓘ |
| firstJetAirlinerInServiceFor | Aeroflot ⓘ |
| firstOperator | Aeroflot ⓘ |
| height | 11.90 m ⓘ |
| introducedOnRoute |
Moscow–Irkutsk
ⓘ
Moscow–Prague ⓘ |
| landingGear | tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| landingRun | 1800 m ⓘ |
| length | 38.85 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Tupolev
ⓘ
surface form:
Tupolev Design Bureau
|
| maximumPassengerCapacity | 100 ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 950 km/h ⓘ |
| maximumTakeoffWeight | 75000 kg ⓘ |
| natoReportingName | Camel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being among the world’s first successful jet airliners
ⓘ
being the second jet airliner to enter regular service after the de Havilland Comet ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | 201 ⓘ |
| otherOperator |
Czech Airlines
ⓘ
surface form:
Czechoslovak Airlines
|
| powerplant | 2 × Mikulin AM-3 turbojet engines ⓘ |
| primaryOperator | Aeroflot ⓘ |
| productionPeriod | 1956–1960 ⓘ |
| range | 2650 km ⓘ |
| retiredFromService | 1981 ⓘ |
| serviceCeiling | 12000 m ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successor |
Tupolev Tu-124
ⓘ
Tupolev Tu-134 airliner ⓘ
surface form:
Tupolev Tu-134
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| tailConfiguration | conventional tail ⓘ |
| takeoffRun | 2350 m ⓘ |
| typicalPassengerCapacity | 50 ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Czechoslovak Air Force
ⓘ
Soviet Air Forces ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet Air Force
|
| wingArea | 184 m² ⓘ |
| wingspan | 34.54 m ⓘ |
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: Tupolev Tu-104 jet airliner Description of subject: The Tupolev Tu-104 was one of the world’s first successful jet airliners, developed in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and used extensively by Aeroflot for medium-range passenger flights.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-110
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-104
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-107
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-104 (transport variants)
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-104
subject surface form:
Mikulin AM-3
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-104
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-104
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-104
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-104