General Electric F404
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The General Electric F404 is a family of afterburning turbofan jet engines widely used in modern fighter aircraft for their reliability, high thrust-to-weight ratio, and ease of maintenance.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| General Electric F404 canonical | 4 |
| General Electric F404-GE-400 | 2 |
| GE F404 | 1 |
| General Electric F404 engine | 1 |
| General Electric F404 engine family | 1 |
| General Electric F404 turbofan | 1 |
| General Electric F404 turbofan engine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T945759 — 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: General Electric F404 Context triple: [CF-18 Hornet, engineModel, General Electric F404]
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A.
General Electric CF34-10E
The General Electric CF34-10E is a high-bypass turbofan engine developed by GE Aviation to power modern regional jets, particularly optimized for efficiency, reliability, and low emissions.
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B.
Pratt & Whitney JT9D
The Pratt & Whitney JT9D is a high-bypass turbofan jet engine that powered early wide-body airliners and was notably used on the original Boeing 747 series.
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C.
Pratt & Whitney F117-PW-100
The Pratt & Whitney F117-PW-100 is a high-bypass turbofan jet engine used to power the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft.
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D.
Rolls-Royce RB211
The Rolls-Royce RB211 is a high-bypass turbofan jet engine that was pioneering in its use of advanced materials and technology and became a cornerstone powerplant for wide-body airliners.
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E.
Europrop International TP400-D6
The Europrop International TP400-D6 is a high-power turboprop aircraft engine developed by a European consortium specifically to provide the Airbus A400M Atlas with the performance and efficiency needed for tactical and strategic airlift 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: General Electric F404 Target entity description: The General Electric F404 is a family of afterburning turbofan jet engines widely used in modern fighter aircraft for their reliability, high thrust-to-weight ratio, and ease of maintenance.
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A.
General Electric CF34-10E
The General Electric CF34-10E is a high-bypass turbofan engine developed by GE Aviation to power modern regional jets, particularly optimized for efficiency, reliability, and low emissions.
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B.
Pratt & Whitney JT9D
The Pratt & Whitney JT9D is a high-bypass turbofan jet engine that powered early wide-body airliners and was notably used on the original Boeing 747 series.
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C.
Pratt & Whitney F117-PW-100
The Pratt & Whitney F117-PW-100 is a high-bypass turbofan jet engine used to power the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft.
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D.
Rolls-Royce RB211
The Rolls-Royce RB211 is a high-bypass turbofan jet engine that was pioneering in its use of advanced materials and technology and became a cornerstone powerplant for wide-body airliners.
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E.
Europrop International TP400-D6
The Europrop International TP400-D6 is a high-power turboprop aircraft engine developed by a European consortium specifically to provide the Airbus A400M Atlas with the performance and efficiency needed for tactical and strategic airlift missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | afterburning turbofan engine ⓘ |
| application | fighter aircraft propulsion ⓘ |
| category |
military aircraft engine
ⓘ
turbofan engine family ⓘ |
| configuration | low-bypass turbofan ⓘ |
| controlSystem |
FADEC
ⓘ
surface form:
FADEC (some later variants)
hydromechanical control (early variants) ⓘ |
| coolingMethod | air-cooled turbine ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| derivedTo |
General Electric F414-GE-400
ⓘ
surface form:
General Electric F414
|
| developmentStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| familyMember |
F404-GE-100
ⓘ
F404-GE-400 ⓘ F404-GE-400 ⓘ
surface form:
F404-GE-402
F404-GE-400 ⓘ
surface form:
F404-GE-IN20
RM12 ⓘ |
| feature |
afterburner
ⓘ
axial compressor ⓘ digital engine control in later variants ⓘ full-length annular combustor ⓘ modular construction ⓘ single-stage fan ⓘ |
| firstFlightOn |
Northrop YF-17
ⓘ
surface form:
YF-17 Cobra
|
| fuelType | aviation kerosene (Jet-A/JP series) ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
GE Aviation
ⓘ
surface form:
General Electric Aviation
|
| marketSegment | military jet engines ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
ease of maintenance
ⓘ
high reliability ⓘ high thrust-to-weight ratio ⓘ |
| operator |
Indian Air Force
ⓘ
Republic of Korea Air Force ⓘ Swedish Air Force (RM12 variant) ⓘ United States Marine Corps ⓘ United States Navy ⓘ |
| role | primary powerplant for early F/A-18 variants ⓘ |
| status | in service ⓘ |
| thrustClass |
approximately 48 kN dry thrust
ⓘ
approximately 79 kN thrust with afterburner ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing F/A-18 Hornet
F/A-18 Hornet ⓘ
surface form:
F/A-18A
F/A-18 Hornet ⓘ
surface form:
F/A-18B
F/A-18 Hornet ⓘ
surface form:
F/A-18C
F/A-18 Hornet ⓘ
surface form:
F/A-18D
HAL Tejas ⓘ KAI T-50 Golden Eagle ⓘ F/A-18 Hornet ⓘ
surface form:
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
Northrop F-20 Tigershark ⓘ JAS 39 Gripen ⓘ
surface form:
Saab JAS 39 Gripen (early variants)
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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: General Electric F404 Description of subject: The General Electric F404 is a family of afterburning turbofan jet engines widely used in modern fighter aircraft for their reliability, high thrust-to-weight ratio, and ease of maintenance.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
General Electric F404-GE-400
this entity surface form:
GE F404
this entity surface form:
General Electric F404 engine
this entity surface form:
General Electric F404 engine family
this entity surface form:
General Electric F404 turbofan engine
subject surface form:
Volvo RM12
subject surface form:
Volvo RM12
this entity surface form:
General Electric F404-GE-400
this entity surface form:
General Electric F404 turbofan