Ford 302 V8 engine
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The Ford 302 V8 engine is a small-block American V8 renowned for its widespread use in Ford performance cars and muscle cars from the late 1960s onward.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ford 302 V8 engine canonical | 1 |
| Ford Boss 302 V8 engine | 1 |
| Ford Windsor V8 engines | 1 |
| Ford small-block V8 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8540653 — 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: Ford 302 V8 engine Context triple: [Eliminator, engineOption, Ford 302 V8 engine]
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A.
Ford 385-series V8
The Ford 385-series V8 is a family of big-block overhead-valve engines produced by Ford from the late 1960s through the 1990s, widely used in high-performance muscle cars and heavy-duty trucks.
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B.
Ford Modular V8
The Ford Modular V8 is a family of overhead-cam V8 engines introduced by Ford in the early 1990s, widely used across its rear-wheel-drive cars, trucks, and luxury vehicles for their durability and smooth operation.
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C.
Ford GAA V8 engine
The Ford GAA V8 engine is a large, liquid-cooled gasoline V8 powerplant developed by Ford during World War II to power American medium tanks, most notably the M4 Sherman.
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D.
4.6 L Northstar V8
The 4.6 L Northstar V8 is a high-performance, all-aluminum, dual overhead camshaft V8 engine developed by General Motors, widely used in luxury Cadillac models for its smooth power delivery and advanced engineering.
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E.
Chevrolet 409 cubic inch V8
The Chevrolet 409 cubic inch V8 is a legendary early-1960s big-block engine famed for its high performance and association with Chevrolet’s muscle-era full-size cars.
- 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: Ford 302 V8 engine Target entity description: The Ford 302 V8 engine is a small-block American V8 renowned for its widespread use in Ford performance cars and muscle cars from the late 1960s onward.
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A.
Ford 385-series V8
The Ford 385-series V8 is a family of big-block overhead-valve engines produced by Ford from the late 1960s through the 1990s, widely used in high-performance muscle cars and heavy-duty trucks.
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B.
Ford Modular V8
The Ford Modular V8 is a family of overhead-cam V8 engines introduced by Ford in the early 1990s, widely used across its rear-wheel-drive cars, trucks, and luxury vehicles for their durability and smooth operation.
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C.
Ford GAA V8 engine
The Ford GAA V8 engine is a large, liquid-cooled gasoline V8 powerplant developed by Ford during World War II to power American medium tanks, most notably the M4 Sherman.
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D.
4.6 L Northstar V8
The 4.6 L Northstar V8 is a high-performance, all-aluminum, dual overhead camshaft V8 engine developed by General Motors, widely used in luxury Cadillac models for its smooth power delivery and advanced engineering.
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E.
Chevrolet 409 cubic inch V8
The Chevrolet 409 cubic inch V8 is a legendary early-1960s big-block engine famed for its high performance and association with Chevrolet’s muscle-era full-size cars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ford small-block engine
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V8 engine ⓘ automobile engine ⓘ |
| application | rear-wheel-drive vehicles ⓘ |
| aspiration | naturally aspirated ⓘ |
| basedOn | Ford 289 V8 engine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blockMaterial | cast iron ⓘ |
| bore | 4.00 inches ⓘ |
| camshaftLocation | cam-in-block ⓘ |
| category | small-block V8 engine ⓘ |
| configuration | V8 ⓘ |
| coolingSystem | water-cooled ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| cylinderBankAngle | 90 degrees ⓘ |
| displacement |
302 cubic inches
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4.9 liters ⓘ |
| era | muscle car era ⓘ |
| family | Ford Windsor engine family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fuelSystem | carbureted (early versions) ⓘ |
| fuelType | gasoline ⓘ |
| headMaterial | cast iron ⓘ |
| ignitionSystem | distributor-based ignition (early versions) ⓘ |
| layout | longitudinal ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Ford Motor Company ⓘ |
| marketedAs | 5.0 V8 ⓘ |
| notableVariant |
302 Marine engine
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5.0 High Output (5.0 HO) engine NERFINISHED ⓘ Boss 302 engine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notedFor |
popularity in American muscle cars
ⓘ
widespread use in Ford performance cars ⓘ |
| numberOfCylinders | 8 ⓘ |
| predecessor | Ford 289 V8 engine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionStart | 1968 ⓘ |
| stroke | 3.00 inches ⓘ |
| successor | Ford 5.0 Windsor V8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Ford Bronco
NERFINISHED
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Ford Econoline NERFINISHED ⓘ Ford F-150 NERFINISHED ⓘ Ford Fairlane NERFINISHED ⓘ Ford Falcon NERFINISHED ⓘ Ford LTD NERFINISHED ⓘ Ford Maverick NERFINISHED ⓘ Ford Mustang NERFINISHED ⓘ Ford Mustang Boss 302 NERFINISHED ⓘ Ford Torino NERFINISHED ⓘ Mercury Comet NERFINISHED ⓘ Mercury Cougar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| valvesPerCylinder | 2 ⓘ |
| valvetrain | overhead valve ⓘ |
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: Ford 302 V8 engine Description of subject: The Ford 302 V8 engine is a small-block American V8 renowned for its widespread use in Ford performance cars and muscle cars from the late 1960s onward.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ford Boss 302 V8 engine
this entity surface form:
Ford Windsor V8 engines
subject surface form:
Ford Mustang GT/CS
this entity surface form:
Ford small-block V8