SouthJet Flight 227
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SouthJet Flight 227 is the fictional commercial airliner involved in the catastrophic yet partially survivable crash at the center of the 2012 film "Flight."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SouthJet Flight 227 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7905744 — 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: SouthJet Flight 227 Context triple: [Whip Whitaker, flightNumberInvolved, SouthJet Flight 227]
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A.
Discovery flight 27
Discovery flight 27 is the Space Shuttle Discovery mission designated STS-103, a 1999 NASA flight primarily tasked with servicing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope.
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B.
Flight 17P
Flight 17P was a historic SpaceShipOne mission that contributed to winning the Ansari X Prize by demonstrating successful private suborbital spaceflight.
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C.
Southern Airways Express
Southern Airways Express is a U.S. regional airline operating commuter and short-haul flights across various domestic markets.
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D.
Flight 16P
Flight 16P was the historic SpaceShipOne mission that achieved the first privately funded human spaceflight into suborbital space.
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E.
Colgan Air
Colgan Air was a U.S. regional airline that operated feeder flights for major carriers under brands such as United Express and Continental Connection before ceasing operations in 2012.
- 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: SouthJet Flight 227 Target entity description: SouthJet Flight 227 is the fictional commercial airliner involved in the catastrophic yet partially survivable crash at the center of the 2012 film "Flight."
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A.
Discovery flight 27
Discovery flight 27 is the Space Shuttle Discovery mission designated STS-103, a 1999 NASA flight primarily tasked with servicing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope.
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B.
Flight 17P
Flight 17P was a historic SpaceShipOne mission that contributed to winning the Ansari X Prize by demonstrating successful private suborbital spaceflight.
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C.
Southern Airways Express
Southern Airways Express is a U.S. regional airline operating commuter and short-haul flights across various domestic markets.
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D.
Flight 16P
Flight 16P was the historic SpaceShipOne mission that achieved the first privately funded human spaceflight into suborbital space.
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E.
Colgan Air
Colgan Air was a U.S. regional airline that operated feeder flights for major carriers under brands such as United Express and Continental Connection before ceasing operations in 2012.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional commercial airliner
ⓘ
fictional flight ⓘ |
| aircraftTypeInFiction | commercial jet airliner ⓘ |
| airline | SouthJet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Flight (2012 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
addiction
ⓘ
aviation safety ⓘ heroism ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ |
| captainCharacter | William "Whip" Whitaker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| captainPortrayedBy | Denzel Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralEventInWork | catastrophic airplane crash ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crashOutcome | partially survivable crash ⓘ |
| depictedCauseOfAccident | mechanical failure ⓘ |
| flightNumber | 227 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkItAppearsIn |
disaster film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| hasNoRealWorldAccident | true ⓘ |
| isFictional | true ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | catalyst for main character's personal and legal crisis ⓘ |
| narrativeTimeSetting | early 21st century ⓘ |
| workDirector | Robert Zemeckis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLanguage | English ⓘ |
| workLeadActor | Denzel Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workMusicBy | Alan Silvestri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workProductionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workReleaseYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| workWriter | John Gatins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: SouthJet Flight 227 Description of subject: SouthJet Flight 227 is the fictional commercial airliner involved in the catastrophic yet partially survivable crash at the center of the 2012 film "Flight."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Whip Whitaker