SR111
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SR111 was a Swissair international passenger flight that tragically crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Nova Scotia in 1998, killing all 229 people on board.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SR111 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8660303 — 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: SR111 Context triple: [Swissair, flightNumberInAccident, SR111]
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A.
SR 100
SR 100 is a state highway in Maine that runs generally parallel to Interstate 95, connecting several communities between Portland and Bangor.
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B.
SR 100
SR 100 is a state highway in Georgia that runs generally north–south, connecting several small towns and rural areas in the western part of the state.
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C.
SR 100
SR 100 is a state highway designation commonly used in the United States for a numbered route within a state's road network.
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D.
R11
R11 is the internal station code used by the New York City Subway for the Grand Central–42nd Street complex in Midtown Manhattan.
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E.
#11S
#11S is a Catalan hashtag commonly used to refer to the National Day of Catalonia on September 11, especially in the context of pro-independence demonstrations and political events.
- 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: SR111 Target entity description: SR111 was a Swissair international passenger flight that tragically crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Nova Scotia in 1998, killing all 229 people on board.
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A.
SR 100
SR 100 is a state highway in Maine that runs generally parallel to Interstate 95, connecting several communities between Portland and Bangor.
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B.
SR 100
SR 100 is a state highway in Georgia that runs generally north–south, connecting several small towns and rural areas in the western part of the state.
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C.
SR 100
SR 100 is a state highway designation commonly used in the United States for a numbered route within a state's road network.
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D.
R11
R11 is the internal station code used by the New York City Subway for the Grand Central–42nd Street complex in Midtown Manhattan.
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E.
#11S
#11S is a Catalan hashtag commonly used to refer to the National Day of Catalonia on September 11, especially in the context of pro-independence demonstrations and political events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aviation accident
ⓘ
commercial airline flight ⓘ |
| accidentReportNumber | TSB A98H0003 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftManufacturer | McDonnell Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftName | Vaud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftRegistration | HB-IWF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftType | McDonnell Douglas MD-11 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| airline | Swissair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Swissair 111
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Swissair Flight 111 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| arrivalCountry | Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| callsign | Swissair 111 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributingFactor |
flammable metallized Mylar insulation blankets
ⓘ
wiring arcing above the cockpit ceiling ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator | Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crashSite | Atlantic Ocean near Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crashSiteCountry | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crashSiteNearestCommunity | Peggy's Cove NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crashSiteProvince | Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| date | 1998-09-02 ⓘ |
| departureCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destination | Geneva Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destinationCity | Geneva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destinationCountry | Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatalitiesLocation | all occupants on board ⓘ |
| flightCategory | international passenger flight ⓘ |
| flightNumber | 111 ⓘ |
| flightRoute | New York City to Geneva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IATAFlightNumber | SR111 ⓘ |
| impactOutcome | aircraft destroyed ⓘ |
| impactType | ocean impact ⓘ |
| investigatingAgency | Transportation Safety Board of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memorialLocation |
Bayswater, Nova Scotia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| month | September ⓘ |
| notableFor | in-flight fire leading to loss of control ⓘ |
| numberOfCrew | 14 ⓘ |
| numberOfFatalities | 229 ⓘ |
| numberOfPassengers | 215 ⓘ |
| numberOfSurvivors | 0 ⓘ |
| ocean | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| origin | John F. Kennedy International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originCity | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| phaseOfFlightAtAccident | en route ⓘ |
| primaryCause | in-flight fire in the aircraft's overhead area ⓘ |
| totalOccupants | 229 ⓘ |
| year | 1998 ⓘ |
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: SR111 Description of subject: SR111 was a Swissair international passenger flight that tragically crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Nova Scotia in 1998, killing all 229 people on board.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.