AN/APY-9
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The AN/APY-9 is a U.S. Navy airborne early warning radar system featuring advanced active electronically scanned array (AESA) technology for long-range surveillance and tracking of air and surface targets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| AN/APY-9 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11083306 — 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: AN/APY-9 Context triple: [E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, radarSystem, AN/APY-9]
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AN/APY-7
The AN/APY-7 is an advanced airborne radar system used on the E-8 Joint STARS aircraft to provide long-range ground surveillance and battle management capabilities.
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B.
AN/APY-1
The AN/APY-1 is an airborne early warning and control radar system used on the E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft to provide long-range surveillance and battle management capabilities.
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C.
AN/APG-70
The AN/APG-70 is an advanced multi-mode pulse-Doppler radar system developed for modernized variants of the F-15 fighter to provide long-range air-to-air and air-to-ground targeting capabilities.
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D.
AN/APY-2 radar
The AN/APY-2 radar is an advanced airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) radar system designed to provide long-range surveillance, tracking, and battle management capabilities.
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E.
Sukhoi Su-30SM
The Sukhoi Su-30SM is a modern Russian twin-engine, multirole fighter aircraft known for its advanced avionics, long-range capabilities, and use in both air superiority and ground-attack missions.
- 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: AN/APY-9 Target entity description: The AN/APY-9 is a U.S. Navy airborne early warning radar system featuring advanced active electronically scanned array (AESA) technology for long-range surveillance and tracking of air and surface targets.
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A.
AN/APY-7
The AN/APY-7 is an advanced airborne radar system used on the E-8 Joint STARS aircraft to provide long-range ground surveillance and battle management capabilities.
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B.
AN/APY-1
The AN/APY-1 is an airborne early warning and control radar system used on the E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft to provide long-range surveillance and battle management capabilities.
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C.
AN/APG-70
The AN/APG-70 is an advanced multi-mode pulse-Doppler radar system developed for modernized variants of the F-15 fighter to provide long-range air-to-air and air-to-ground targeting capabilities.
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D.
AN/APY-2 radar
The AN/APY-2 radar is an advanced airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) radar system designed to provide long-range surveillance, tracking, and battle management capabilities.
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E.
Sukhoi Su-30SM
The Sukhoi Su-30SM is a modern Russian twin-engine, multirole fighter aircraft known for its advanced avionics, long-range capabilities, and use in both air superiority and ground-attack missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
active electronically scanned array radar
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airborne early warning radar ⓘ airborne radar ⓘ |
| associatedAircraftVariant | carrier-capable E-2D variant GENERATED ⓘ |
| capability |
enhanced detection of small targets
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high-resolution tracking ⓘ improved clutter rejection ⓘ long-range air surveillance ⓘ maritime surveillance ⓘ network-centric operations support ⓘ over-the-horizon detection support ⓘ simultaneous air and surface tracking ⓘ surface surveillance ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| designedForEnvironment |
carrier-based operations
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maritime environment ⓘ |
| designedForRole |
air and surface target tracking
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airborne early warning and control ⓘ long-range surveillance ⓘ |
| developedForProgram | E-2D Advanced Hawkeye program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feature |
adaptive beamforming
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digital signal processing ⓘ electronically steerable beam ⓘ high update rate ⓘ multi-mode operation ⓘ wide-area coverage ⓘ |
| frequencyBand |
L-band
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UHF band ⓘ |
| integratedWith |
E-2D combat information center
NERFINISHED
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E-2D mission system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| partOf |
E-2D Advanced Hawkeye sensor suite
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carrier strike group air defense architecture ⓘ |
| primaryUser | U.S. Navy carrier air wings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedSystem | AN/APS-145 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEntryContext | E-2D fleet introduction ⓘ |
| supportsMission |
airspace control
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ballistic missile defense cueing ⓘ battle management ⓘ fleet air defense ⓘ maritime domain awareness ⓘ surface warfare support ⓘ |
| technologyType | active electronically scanned array ⓘ |
| usedOnPlatform | E-2D Advanced Hawkeye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: AN/APY-9 Description of subject: The AN/APY-9 is a U.S. Navy airborne early warning radar system featuring advanced active electronically scanned array (AESA) technology for long-range surveillance and tracking of air and surface targets.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.