Pontiac V8 engine family

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The Pontiac V8 engine family is a series of American V8 internal combustion engines produced by Pontiac from the mid-1950s through the late 1970s, widely known for powering many of the brand’s high-performance muscle cars.

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Label Occurrences
Pontiac V8 engine family canonical 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf V8 engine
automobile engine family
blockMaterial cast iron
boreSpacing 4.62 in
camshaftPosition cam-in-block
combustionChambers wedge
configuration V8
coolingSystem water-cooled
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
crankshaftType cast
forged
cylinderHeads two
displacementRange 287 cu in to 455 cu in
era muscle car era
fuelSystem carburetor
fuelType gasoline
headMaterial cast iron
induction naturally aspirated
introducedWithDisplacement 287 cu in
layout longitudinal front-engine
manufacturer Pontiac NERFINISHED
notableDisplacement 326 cu in
350 cu in
389 cu in
400 cu in
421 cu in
428 cu in
455 cu in
notableModelAssociation Pontiac Firebird Trans Am GENERATED
Pontiac GTO Judge GENERATED
notableVariant 455 HO
Ram Air III NERFINISHED
Ram Air IV NERFINISHED
Super Duty 421 NERFINISHED
Super Duty 455 NERFINISHED
Tri-Power NERFINISHED
parentCompany General Motors
performanceRole muscle car engine
productionEnd late 1970s
productionStart 1955
usedIn Pontiac Bonneville NERFINISHED
Pontiac Catalina NERFINISHED
Pontiac Firebird NERFINISHED
Pontiac GTO NERFINISHED
Pontiac Grand Prix NERFINISHED
Pontiac LeMans NERFINISHED
Pontiac Tempest NERFINISHED
Pontiac Trans Am NERFINISHED
usedInMotorsport NASCAR NERFINISHED
drag racing
valvetrain overhead valve

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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: Pontiac V8 engine family
Description of subject: The Pontiac V8 engine family is a series of American V8 internal combustion engines produced by Pontiac from the mid-1950s through the late 1970s, widely known for powering many of the brand’s high-performance muscle cars.

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389 cu in Pontiac V8 family Pontiac V8 engine family