BAC TSR-2
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The BAC TSR-2 was a British Cold War-era supersonic strike and reconnaissance aircraft prototype, designed for low-level penetration missions but cancelled before entering service.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BAC TSR-2 canonical | 2 |
| BAC TSR-2 (prototype) | 1 |
| TSR-2 | 1 |
| TSR-2 strike and reconnaissance aircraft | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10013784 — 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: BAC TSR-2 Context triple: [British Aircraft Corporation, product, BAC TSR-2]
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A.
SEPECAT Jaguar
The SEPECAT Jaguar is an Anglo-French twin-engine ground-attack and trainer aircraft designed for close air support and nuclear strike missions, widely used by the Royal Air Force and other air forces from the 1970s onward.
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B.
Panavia Tornado
The Panavia Tornado is a twin-engine, variable-sweep wing multirole combat aircraft developed jointly by the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, renowned for its low-level strike and interdiction capabilities.
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C.
Gloster Javelin
The Gloster Javelin was a British twin-engine, delta-wing, all-weather jet interceptor aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force during the Cold War.
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D.
Panavia Tornado GR4
The Panavia Tornado GR4 is a British multirole combat aircraft variant known for its precision strike, reconnaissance, and close air support capabilities in modern conflicts.
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E.
Hawker Osprey
The Hawker Osprey was a British carrier-borne reconnaissance and spotter biplane of the 1930s, operated primarily by the Fleet Air Arm.
- 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: BAC TSR-2 Target entity description: The BAC TSR-2 was a British Cold War-era supersonic strike and reconnaissance aircraft prototype, designed for low-level penetration missions but cancelled before entering service.
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A.
SEPECAT Jaguar
The SEPECAT Jaguar is an Anglo-French twin-engine ground-attack and trainer aircraft designed for close air support and nuclear strike missions, widely used by the Royal Air Force and other air forces from the 1970s onward.
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B.
Panavia Tornado
The Panavia Tornado is a twin-engine, variable-sweep wing multirole combat aircraft developed jointly by the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, renowned for its low-level strike and interdiction capabilities.
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C.
Gloster Javelin
The Gloster Javelin was a British twin-engine, delta-wing, all-weather jet interceptor aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force during the Cold War.
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D.
Panavia Tornado GR4
The Panavia Tornado GR4 is a British multirole combat aircraft variant known for its precision strike, reconnaissance, and close air support capabilities in modern conflicts.
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E.
Hawker Osprey
The Hawker Osprey was a British carrier-borne reconnaissance and spotter biplane of the 1930s, operated primarily by the Fleet Air Arm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military aircraft prototype
ⓘ
reconnaissance aircraft ⓘ strike aircraft ⓘ supersonic aircraft ⓘ |
| airIntakeType | side-mounted intakes with shock cones ⓘ |
| avionicsFeatures | terrain-following radar (planned) ⓘ |
| cancellationYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crew | 2 ⓘ |
| crewPositions |
navigator
ⓘ
pilot ⓘ |
| designedFor | low-level penetration missions ⓘ |
| designFeatures |
all-moving tailplane
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area-ruled fuselage ⓘ high-mounted swept wings ⓘ retractable tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| developmentStartPeriod | late 1950s ⓘ |
| engineType | turbojet ⓘ |
| enteredService | no ⓘ |
| era | Cold War ⓘ |
| firstFlightDate | 1964-09-27 ⓘ |
| firstFlightLocation | Boscombe Down NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| intendedArmament |
conventional bombs
ⓘ
nuclear weapons ⓘ |
| intendedFlightProfile | high-speed low-level flight ⓘ |
| intendedOperator | Royal Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingGear | retractable tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| manufacturer | British Aircraft Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | approximately Mach 2 at altitude ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advanced avionics for its time (planned)
ⓘ
controversial cancellation ⓘ |
| numberBuilt |
1 flying prototype
ⓘ
several incomplete airframes ⓘ |
| powerplant | 2 × Bristol Siddeley Olympus turbojet engines ⓘ |
| primaryRole | tactical strike ⓘ |
| programmeCancelledBy | UK Government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programmeType | tactical strike and reconnaissance (TSR) ⓘ |
| secondaryRole | reconnaissance ⓘ |
| status | cancelled ⓘ |
| successorProgramme | General Dynamics F-111K (planned, later cancelled) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| survivingAircraftLocation |
Imperial War Museum Duxford
NERFINISHED
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Royal Air Force Museum Cosford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | single vertical stabiliser ⓘ |
| takeoffAndLanding | conventional runway ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | swept wing ⓘ |
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: BAC TSR-2 Description of subject: The BAC TSR-2 was a British Cold War-era supersonic strike and reconnaissance aircraft prototype, designed for low-level penetration missions but cancelled before entering service.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
TSR-2 strike and reconnaissance aircraft
subject surface form:
Rolls-Royce Olympus
this entity surface form:
BAC TSR-2 (prototype)
subject surface form:
British Aircraft Corporation
this entity surface form:
TSR-2