HC-131 Samaritan
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The HC-131 Samaritan is a U.S. Coast Guard variant of the Convair C-131 military transport aircraft used primarily for search and rescue and logistics missions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| C-131 Samaritan | 1 |
| HC-131 Samaritan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6636011 — 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: HC-131 Samaritan Context triple: [Coast Guard aircraft, hasModel, HC-131 Samaritan]
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A.
Cessna O-2 Skymaster
The Cessna O-2 Skymaster is a military twin-boom, push-pull configuration aircraft used primarily by the U.S. Air Force for forward air control and reconnaissance during the Vietnam War.
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B.
AC-119K Stinger
The AC-119K Stinger was a heavily armed U.S. Air Force gunship variant of the C-119 used during the Vietnam War for close air support and interdiction missions.
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C.
EC-121 Warning Star
The EC-121 Warning Star was a U.S. Air Force airborne early warning and control aircraft developed from the Lockheed Constellation airliner and widely used during the Cold War and Vietnam War for radar surveillance and command-and-control missions.
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D.
C-2A Greyhound
The C-2A Greyhound is a twin-engine, high-wing cargo aircraft used by the U.S. Navy primarily for carrier onboard delivery of personnel, mail, and supplies to and from aircraft carriers.
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E.
VH-92A Patriot
The VH-92A Patriot is a U.S. Marine Corps variant of the Sikorsky S-92 helicopter, developed to serve as the next-generation presidential transport aircraft.
- 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: HC-131 Samaritan Target entity description: The HC-131 Samaritan is a U.S. Coast Guard variant of the Convair C-131 military transport aircraft used primarily for search and rescue and logistics missions.
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A.
Cessna O-2 Skymaster
The Cessna O-2 Skymaster is a military twin-boom, push-pull configuration aircraft used primarily by the U.S. Air Force for forward air control and reconnaissance during the Vietnam War.
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B.
AC-119K Stinger
The AC-119K Stinger was a heavily armed U.S. Air Force gunship variant of the C-119 used during the Vietnam War for close air support and interdiction missions.
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C.
EC-121 Warning Star
The EC-121 Warning Star was a U.S. Air Force airborne early warning and control aircraft developed from the Lockheed Constellation airliner and widely used during the Cold War and Vietnam War for radar surveillance and command-and-control missions.
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D.
C-2A Greyhound
The C-2A Greyhound is a twin-engine, high-wing cargo aircraft used by the U.S. Navy primarily for carrier onboard delivery of personnel, mail, and supplies to and from aircraft carriers.
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E.
VH-92A Patriot
The VH-92A Patriot is a U.S. Marine Corps variant of the Sikorsky S-92 helicopter, developed to serve as the next-generation presidential transport aircraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military transport aircraft variant
ⓘ
search and rescue aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory | fixed‑wing aircraft ⓘ |
| airframeConfiguration |
low‑wing monoplane
ⓘ
twin‑engine ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Convair C-131 Samaritan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Convair CV-240 family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewType | multi‑crew ⓘ |
| designedFor |
medium‑range transport
ⓘ
utility transport ⓘ |
| engineType | piston‑engined ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Convair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryDesignationSeries | C-131 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | United States Coast Guard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMissionEnvironment |
coastal regions
ⓘ
maritime ⓘ |
| relatedAircraft |
C-131 Samaritan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
R4Y Samaritan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
maritime patrol support
ⓘ
medical evacuation support ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Coast Guard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEntryEra | Cold War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedByBranch | U.S. Coast Guard aviation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cargo transport
ⓘ
logistics missions ⓘ personnel transport ⓘ search and rescue missions ⓘ support of Coast Guard cutters ⓘ transport missions ⓘ |
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: HC-131 Samaritan Description of subject: The HC-131 Samaritan is a U.S. Coast Guard variant of the Convair C-131 military transport aircraft used primarily for search and rescue and logistics missions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
C-131 Samaritan