Dishy McFlatface
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Dishy McFlatface is the informal nickname for SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet user terminal, a phased-array antenna dish used to connect to the Starlink network.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dishy McFlatface canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T849134 — 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: Dishy McFlatface Context triple: [Starlink user terminal, marketedAs, Dishy McFlatface]
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A.
Blagg
Blagg is a variant form of the surname "Black," typically arising as an alternative spelling in English-speaking regions.
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B.
Laffing Sal
Laffing Sal is a historic, animatronic laughing woman figure from early 20th-century amusement parks, now preserved as a popular attraction at San Francisco’s Musée Mécanique.
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C.
Melvin
Melvin is the full given name of legendary American voice actor and comedian Mel Blanc, famed for voicing many iconic Looney Tunes characters.
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D.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
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E.
Dougie
Dougie is a familiar diminutive form of the given name Doug, often used as an affectionate nickname.
- 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: Dishy McFlatface Target entity description: Dishy McFlatface is the informal nickname for SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet user terminal, a phased-array antenna dish used to connect to the Starlink network.
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A.
Blagg
Blagg is a variant form of the surname "Black," typically arising as an alternative spelling in English-speaking regions.
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B.
Laffing Sal
Laffing Sal is a historic, animatronic laughing woman figure from early 20th-century amusement parks, now preserved as a popular attraction at San Francisco’s Musée Mécanique.
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C.
Melvin
Melvin is the full given name of legendary American voice actor and comedian Mel Blanc, famed for voicing many iconic Looney Tunes characters.
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D.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
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E.
Dougie
Dougie is a familiar diminutive form of the given name Doug, often used as an affectionate nickname.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
consumer hardware device
ⓘ
phased-array antenna ⓘ satellite internet user terminal ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
SpaceX
ⓘ
Starlink satellite constellation ⓘ
surface form:
Starlink
|
| belongsToProductLine | Starlink hardware kit ⓘ |
| communicatesWith |
Starlink satellite constellation
ⓘ
surface form:
Starlink low Earth orbit satellites
|
| communicationBand |
Ka-band
ⓘ
Ku-band ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Starlink satellite constellation
ⓘ
surface form:
Starlink network
|
| designedFor |
high-throughput satellite internet
ⓘ
low-latency connectivity ⓘ |
| developedBy | SpaceX ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Starlink user terminals
ⓘ
surface form:
Starlink dish
Starlink user terminals ⓘ
surface form:
Starlink terminal
|
| hasColloquialStatus | mascot-like nickname for Starlink dish ⓘ |
| hasComponentType | electronically steered phased-array antenna ⓘ |
| hasFormFactor |
flat dish
ⓘ
rectangular dish (for newer versions) ⓘ |
| hasNicknameType | informal nickname ⓘ |
| hasShape | flat phased-array panel ⓘ |
| introducedBy |
Starlink satellite constellation
ⓘ
surface form:
SpaceX Starlink program
|
| marketedTo |
business customers
ⓘ
mobile users ⓘ residential customers ⓘ |
| mountingOptions |
ground mount
ⓘ
in-motion mounts (for some plans) ⓘ pole mount ⓘ roof mount ⓘ |
| operatedWith |
Starlink user terminals
ⓘ
surface form:
Starlink router
|
| ownedBy | Starlink customers ⓘ |
| partOf |
Starlink user terminals
ⓘ
surface form:
Starlink ground segment
|
| poweredBy | external power supply ⓘ |
| refersTo |
Starlink user terminals
ⓘ
surface form:
Starlink user terminal
|
| requires |
Ethernet or proprietary cable connection to router
ⓘ
Starlink subscription ⓘ clear view of the sky ⓘ |
| supports | two-way satellite communication ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
automatic satellite tracking
ⓘ
electronic beam steering ⓘ self-orienting mount (for some versions) ⓘ |
| usedFor | accessing the Starlink satellite internet service ⓘ |
| usedIn |
RV and vehicle installations
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fixed installations ⓘ maritime installations ⓘ mobile installations ⓘ |
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: Dishy McFlatface Description of subject: Dishy McFlatface is the informal nickname for SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet user terminal, a phased-array antenna dish used to connect to the Starlink network.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Starlink user terminal