NR16020
E910571
NR16020 was the Lockheed Electra 10E aircraft flown by Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated 1937 around-the-world attempt, whose disappearance remains one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NR16020 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11177053 — 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: NR16020 Context triple: [Lockheed Electra 10E, registrationOfNotableExample, NR16020]
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N211
N211 is a regional road in the Netherlands that connects several towns and provides important access routes in the South Holland province.
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B.
N106
N106 is a French national road that serves as a key route connecting the town of Alès to other parts of southern France.
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C.
N62
N62 is a major Dutch roadway in the province of Zeeland that connects key transport routes and includes the Westerscheldetunnel under the Western Scheldt.
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N218
N218 is a regional road in the Netherlands that connects the town of Zuidland with other nearby areas in the province of South Holland.
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E.
N222
N222 is a regional road in the Netherlands that connects the town of Wateringen with surrounding areas in the Westland region.
- 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: NR16020 Target entity description: NR16020 was the Lockheed Electra 10E aircraft flown by Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated 1937 around-the-world attempt, whose disappearance remains one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.
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A.
N211
N211 is a regional road in the Netherlands that connects several towns and provides important access routes in the South Holland province.
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B.
N106
N106 is a French national road that serves as a key route connecting the town of Alès to other parts of southern France.
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C.
N62
N62 is a major Dutch roadway in the province of Zeeland that connects key transport routes and includes the Westerscheldetunnel under the Western Scheldt.
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D.
N218
N218 is a regional road in the Netherlands that connects the town of Zuidland with other nearby areas in the province of South Holland.
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E.
N222
N222 is a regional road in the Netherlands that connects the town of Wateringen with surrounding areas in the Westland region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Amelia Earhart aircraft
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Lockheed Model 10 Electra ⓘ aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory | landplane ⓘ |
| aircraftConfiguration | all-metal monoplane ⓘ |
| aircraftRole | long-range transport ⓘ |
| aircraftType | Lockheed Electra 10E NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftVariant | 10E Special ⓘ |
| associatedMystery | Amelia Earhart disappearance ⓘ |
| associatedOrganization |
Lockheed Aircraft Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Purdue University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedPerson |
Amelia Earhart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fred Noonan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistration | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewCapacity | 2 ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | one of aviation history’s most famous missing aircraft ⓘ |
| dateOfDisappearance | 1937-07-02 ⓘ |
| engineConfiguration | twin-engine ⓘ |
| engineType | Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fate | disappeared over central Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| firstFlightPurpose | preparation for world flight GENERATED ⓘ |
| fundedBy | Purdue Research Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra | interwar period ⓘ |
| intendedDestinationOnLastLeg | Howland Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastKnownDepartureAirport | Lae Airfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastKnownDepartureLocation | Lae, New Guinea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastKnownFlightLeg | Lae to Howland Island ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Lockheed Aircraft Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navigator | Fred Noonan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
1937 around-the-world flight attempt
ⓘ
disappearance over the Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| notablePassenger |
Amelia Earhart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fred Noonan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator |
Amelia Earhart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Purdue Research Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pilot | Amelia Earhart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion | piston-engine propeller ⓘ |
| registration | NR16020 ⓘ |
| registrationPrefix | N ⓘ |
| searchEffort | subject of extensive U.S. Navy and Coast Guard search ⓘ |
| sponsor | Purdue University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | missing ⓘ |
| usedFor |
aeronautical research
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around-the-world flight attempt ⓘ long-distance aviation records ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | low-wing monoplane ⓘ |
| yearOfDisappearance | 1937 ⓘ |
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: NR16020 Description of subject: NR16020 was the Lockheed Electra 10E aircraft flown by Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated 1937 around-the-world attempt, whose disappearance remains one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.