Supermarine Spiteful
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The Supermarine Spiteful was a late-World War II British fighter aircraft developed as an advanced, high-performance evolution of the Spitfire with a new laminar-flow wing and improved speed.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Supermarine Spiteful canonical | 4 |
| Spiteful F Mk 14 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T30203 — 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: Supermarine Spiteful Context triple: [Supermarine Spitfire, successor, Supermarine Spiteful]
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A.
Supermarine Spitfire
The Supermarine Spitfire was a British single-seat fighter aircraft renowned for its speed, agility, and iconic role in securing Allied air superiority during World War II.
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B.
Hawker Hurricane
The Hawker Hurricane was a British single-seat fighter aircraft of World War II, renowned for its crucial role in achieving air superiority during the Battle of Britain.
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C.
Supermarine
Supermarine was a British aircraft manufacturer best known for designing and producing the iconic Spitfire fighter used by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
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D.
Dornier Do 17
The Dornier Do 17 was a German World War II twin‑engine light bomber, nicknamed the “Flying Pencil” for its slender fuselage and widely used by the Luftwaffe in the early war years.
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E.
Messerschmitt Bf 109
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was a German World War II single-seat fighter aircraft that became one of the most produced and iconic fighters in aviation history.
- 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: Supermarine Spiteful Target entity description: The Supermarine Spiteful was a late-World War II British fighter aircraft developed as an advanced, high-performance evolution of the Spitfire with a new laminar-flow wing and improved speed.
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A.
Supermarine Spitfire
The Supermarine Spitfire was a British single-seat fighter aircraft renowned for its speed, agility, and iconic role in securing Allied air superiority during World War II.
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B.
Hawker Hurricane
The Hawker Hurricane was a British single-seat fighter aircraft of World War II, renowned for its crucial role in achieving air superiority during the Battle of Britain.
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C.
Supermarine
Supermarine was a British aircraft manufacturer best known for designing and producing the iconic Spitfire fighter used by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
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D.
Dornier Do 17
The Dornier Do 17 was a German World War II twin‑engine light bomber, nicknamed the “Flying Pencil” for its slender fuselage and widely used by the Luftwaffe in the early war years.
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E.
Messerschmitt Bf 109
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was a German World War II single-seat fighter aircraft that became one of the most produced and iconic fighters in aviation history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fighter aircraft
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prototype aircraft ⓘ single-seat fighter ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory | propeller-driven fighter ⓘ |
| aircraftType | land-based fighter ⓘ |
| armament | 20 mm Hispano cannon ⓘ |
| cockpit | enclosed cockpit ⓘ |
| configuration |
low-wing monoplane
ⓘ
single-engine ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crew | 1 ⓘ |
| designer |
Joseph Smith
ⓘ
R. J. Mitchell ⓘ |
| designFeature | new laminar-flow wing replacing Spitfire elliptical wing ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Supermarine Spitfire ⓘ |
| developmentGoal |
better low-level performance
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improved high-speed performance over Spitfire ⓘ |
| developmentStart | early 1940s ⓘ |
| engine | Rolls-Royce Griffon ⓘ |
| engineConfiguration | liquid-cooled V-12 ⓘ |
| era |
World War II
ⓘ
post-World War II ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1944-06-30 ⓘ |
| fuselageType | streamlined monocoque ⓘ |
| intendedUser | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| introduced | late World War II ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Supermarine ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed |
approximately 494 mph
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approximately 795 km/h ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | 19 ⓘ |
| powerplantRole | high-performance Griffon-powered derivative of Spitfire ⓘ |
| primaryMaterial | metal airframe ⓘ |
| programOutcome | overtaken by jet fighter development ⓘ |
| propulsion | piston engine ⓘ |
| role | fighter ⓘ |
| status |
experimental
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not mass-produced ⓘ retired ⓘ |
| successor | Supermarine Seafang ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | conventional tail unit ⓘ |
| undercarriage | retractable tailwheel landing gear ⓘ |
| usedIn | flight testing ⓘ |
| variantOf |
Supermarine Spiteful
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Spiteful F Mk 14
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| wingPosition | low wing ⓘ |
| wingType | laminar-flow 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: Supermarine Spiteful Description of subject: The Supermarine Spiteful was a late-World War II British fighter aircraft developed as an advanced, high-performance evolution of the Spitfire with a new laminar-flow wing and improved speed.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Spiteful F Mk 14