Air Florida Flight 90 crash
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The Air Florida Flight 90 crash was a 1982 aviation disaster in which a Boeing 737 struck a bridge and plunged into the icy Potomac River in Washington, D.C., leading to significant loss of life and widely publicized rescue efforts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Air Florida Flight 90 | 1 |
| Air Florida Flight 90 crash canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10657034 — 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.
Target entity: Air Florida Flight 90 crash Context triple: [Arland D. Williams Jr., notableEvent, Air Florida Flight 90 crash]
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BEA Flight 609
BEA Flight 609 was the British European Airways charter flight that crashed in 1958 at Munich-Riem Airport, a tragedy remembered as the Munich air disaster that killed many Manchester United players and staff.
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B.
EgyptAir Flight 990
EgyptAir Flight 990 was a scheduled passenger flight from New York to Cairo that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1999 under controversial circumstances, killing all on board.
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C.
Alaska Airlines Flight 261
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was a scheduled passenger flight that tragically crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2000 after a catastrophic mechanical failure, killing all 88 people on board and prompting major safety investigations and reforms.
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D.
1999 Martha's Vineyard plane crash
The 1999 Martha's Vineyard plane crash was the fatal aviation accident off the coast of Massachusetts that killed John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister Lauren Bessette.
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E.
AeroCaribbean Flight 883
AeroCaribbean Flight 883 was a domestic Cuban passenger flight that crashed in 2010 near Sancti Spíritus, killing all on board and becoming one of the deadliest aviation disasters in the country’s history.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Air Florida Flight 90 crash Target entity description: The Air Florida Flight 90 crash was a 1982 aviation disaster in which a Boeing 737 struck a bridge and plunged into the icy Potomac River in Washington, D.C., leading to significant loss of life and widely publicized rescue efforts.
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A.
BEA Flight 609
BEA Flight 609 was the British European Airways charter flight that crashed in 1958 at Munich-Riem Airport, a tragedy remembered as the Munich air disaster that killed many Manchester United players and staff.
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B.
EgyptAir Flight 990
EgyptAir Flight 990 was a scheduled passenger flight from New York to Cairo that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1999 under controversial circumstances, killing all on board.
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C.
Alaska Airlines Flight 261
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was a scheduled passenger flight that tragically crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2000 after a catastrophic mechanical failure, killing all 88 people on board and prompting major safety investigations and reforms.
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D.
1999 Martha's Vineyard plane crash
The 1999 Martha's Vineyard plane crash was the fatal aviation accident off the coast of Massachusetts that killed John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister Lauren Bessette.
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E.
AeroCaribbean Flight 883
AeroCaribbean Flight 883 was a domestic Cuban passenger flight that crashed in 2010 near Sancti Spíritus, killing all on board and becoming one of the deadliest aviation disasters in the country’s history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | aviation accident ⓘ |
| aircraftManufacturer | Boeing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftRegistration | N62AF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftType | Boeing 737-222 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| airline | Air Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Air Florida Flight 90 accident NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bridgeStruck | 14th Street Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cause |
aircraft icing
ⓘ
failure to use engine anti-ice ⓘ improper de-icing ⓘ pilot error ⓘ |
| city | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crew | 5 ⓘ |
| date | 1982-01-13 ⓘ |
| destinationAirport | Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destinationCity | Fort Lauderdale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destinationCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destinationState | Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatalitiesOnboard | 74 ⓘ |
| flightNumber | Flight 90 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| groundFatalities | 4 ⓘ |
| investigatingAgency | National Transportation Safety Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ledTo |
changes in cockpit crew training
ⓘ
changes in de-icing procedures ⓘ |
| location |
Potomac River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage | extensive television coverage in the United States ⓘ |
| memorial | Arland D. Williams Jr. Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRescuer | Lenny Skutnik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableVictim | Arland D. Williams Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| onboardOccupants | 79 ⓘ |
| originAirport | Washington National Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originCity | Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| partOf | history of aviation safety in the United States ⓘ |
| passengers | 74 ⓘ |
| phaseOfFlight | takeoff ⓘ |
| river | Potomac River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | District of Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stopoverAirport | Tampa International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| survivors | 5 ⓘ |
| totalFatalities | 78 ⓘ |
| weatherCondition |
icing
ⓘ
snow ⓘ |
| year | 1982 ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: Air Florida Flight 90 crash Description of subject: The Air Florida Flight 90 crash was a 1982 aviation disaster in which a Boeing 737 struck a bridge and plunged into the icy Potomac River in Washington, D.C., leading to significant loss of life and widely publicized rescue efforts.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.