Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner
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The Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner was a Soviet passenger jet, often compared to the Concorde, that became the world’s first commercial supersonic transport aircraft to fly.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tupolev Tu-144 | 6 |
| Tu-144 | 4 |
| Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic transport | 2 |
| Tu-144D | 1 |
| Tu-144S | 1 |
| Tupolev Tu-144 (testbed) | 1 |
| Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T473976 — 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-144 supersonic airliner Context triple: [Andrei Tupolev, notableWork, Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner]
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A.
Tupolev Tu-114 airliner
The Tupolev Tu-114 airliner is a Soviet long-range turboprop passenger aircraft, renowned for being one of the fastest and largest propeller-driven airliners ever built and for serving prestigious international routes during the Cold War era.
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B.
Tupolev Tu-104 jet airliner
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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C.
Tupolev Tu-134 airliner
The Tupolev Tu-134 airliner is a Soviet-era twin-engine jet used widely by Eastern Bloc airlines and militaries, known for its rugged design and extensive service from the 1960s onward.
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D.
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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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-144 supersonic airliner Target entity description: The Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner was a Soviet passenger jet, often compared to the Concorde, that became the world’s first commercial supersonic transport aircraft to fly.
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A.
Tupolev Tu-114 airliner
The Tupolev Tu-114 airliner is a Soviet long-range turboprop passenger aircraft, renowned for being one of the fastest and largest propeller-driven airliners ever built and for serving prestigious international routes during the Cold War era.
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B.
Tupolev Tu-104 jet airliner
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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C.
Tupolev Tu-134 airliner
The Tupolev Tu-134 airliner is a Soviet-era twin-engine jet used widely by Eastern Bloc airlines and militaries, known for its rugged design and extensive service from the 1960s onward.
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D.
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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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)
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-144 supersonic airliner Description of subject: The Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner was a Soviet passenger jet, often compared to the Concorde, that became the world’s first commercial supersonic transport aircraft to fly.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-144
Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner
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prototypeDesignation
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Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Tupolev Tu-144
this entity surface form:
Tu-144
Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner
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productionVariant
→
Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Tupolev Tu-144
this entity surface form:
Tu-144S
Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner
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improvedVariant
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Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Tupolev Tu-144
this entity surface form:
Tu-144D
subject surface form:
Rolls-Royce Olympus
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-144 (testbed)
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-144
this entity surface form:
Tu-144
this entity surface form:
Tu-144
subject surface form:
Kuznetsov NK-144
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-144
subject surface form:
Kuznetsov NK-144
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic transport
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-144
this entity surface form:
Tu-144
subject surface form:
Kolesov RD-36-51
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-144
subject surface form:
Kolesov RD-36-51
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic transport