Kawasaki C-1
E113997
The Kawasaki C-1 is a Japanese twin-engine short-range military transport aircraft designed and built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries for tactical airlift operations.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kawasaki C-1 canonical | 7 |
| Kawasaki C-1 (modified testbed) | 1 |
| Kawasaki C-1 transport program | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T857042 — 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: Kawasaki C-1 Context triple: [Japan Air Self-Defense Force, usesAircraft, Kawasaki C-1]
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A.
Kawasaki C-2
The Kawasaki C-2 is a Japanese twin-engine, long-range military transport aircraft designed for heavy airlift and rapid deployment missions.
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B.
Kawasaki T-4
The Kawasaki T-4 is a Japanese subsonic jet trainer aircraft widely used for pilot training and aerobatic display teams such as Blue Impulse.
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C.
Kokusai Ki-76
The Kokusai Ki-76 was a Japanese World War II liaison and observation aircraft, similar in role to the German Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, known for its short takeoff and landing capabilities.
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D.
Mitsubishi Ki-67
The Mitsubishi Ki-67 was a twin-engine Japanese World War II medium bomber known for its relatively high speed, maneuverability, and use in a variety of roles including level bombing, torpedo attacks, and kamikaze missions.
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E.
Kawasaki Ki-100
The Kawasaki Ki-100 was a late-World War II Japanese fighter aircraft renowned for its excellent maneuverability and reliability, created by fitting a radial engine to the airframe of the earlier Ki-61.
- 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: Kawasaki C-1 Target entity description: The Kawasaki C-1 is a Japanese twin-engine short-range military transport aircraft designed and built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries for tactical airlift operations.
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A.
Kawasaki C-2
The Kawasaki C-2 is a Japanese twin-engine, long-range military transport aircraft designed for heavy airlift and rapid deployment missions.
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B.
Kawasaki T-4
The Kawasaki T-4 is a Japanese subsonic jet trainer aircraft widely used for pilot training and aerobatic display teams such as Blue Impulse.
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C.
Kokusai Ki-76
The Kokusai Ki-76 was a Japanese World War II liaison and observation aircraft, similar in role to the German Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, known for its short takeoff and landing capabilities.
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D.
Mitsubishi Ki-67
The Mitsubishi Ki-67 was a twin-engine Japanese World War II medium bomber known for its relatively high speed, maneuverability, and use in a variety of roles including level bombing, torpedo attacks, and kamikaze missions.
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E.
Kawasaki Ki-100
The Kawasaki Ki-100 was a late-World War II Japanese fighter aircraft renowned for its excellent maneuverability and reliability, created by fitting a radial engine to the airframe of the earlier Ki-61.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military transport aircraft
ⓘ
twin-engine jet aircraft ⓘ |
| airForceBase |
Iruma Air Base
ⓘ
Komaki Air Base ⓘ Miho Air Base ⓘ |
| allMetalConstruction | yes ⓘ |
| C-1FTB | flight test bed variant ⓘ |
| configuration |
pressurized cargo hold
ⓘ
rear cargo ramp door ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| crew |
3
ⓘ
4 ⓘ |
| cruiseSpeed | about 650 km/h ⓘ |
| designedFor |
Japan Air Self-Defense Force domestic logistics
ⓘ
tactical airlift operations ⓘ |
| designFeature |
T-tail
ⓘ
high-wing configuration ⓘ rear loading ramp ⓘ |
| developedIn | 1960s ⓘ |
| engineLocation | underwing pylons ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1970-11-12 ⓘ |
| height | 9.9 m ⓘ |
| introduced | 1974 ⓘ |
| landingGear | tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| length | 29.0 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Kawasaki Heavy Industries ⓘ |
| maxSpeed | about 780 km/h ⓘ |
| maxTakeoffWeight | 38,000 kg ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | 31 ⓘ |
| operator | Japan Air Self-Defense Force ⓘ |
| payload | up to 10,000 kg ⓘ |
| powerplant | 2× Pratt & Whitney JT8D turbofan engines ⓘ |
| pressurizedCabin | yes ⓘ |
| primaryUser | Japan Air Self-Defense Force ⓘ |
| range | about 1,300 km with max payload ⓘ |
| role |
short-range transport
ⓘ
tactical airlifter ⓘ |
| serviceCeiling | 12,000 m ⓘ |
| status | in service ⓘ |
| successor | Kawasaki C-2 ⓘ |
| tailNumberExample | 28-1001 ⓘ |
| takeoffAndLanding | short takeoff and landing capability ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cargo transport
ⓘ
medical evacuation ⓘ paratroop drops ⓘ troop transport ⓘ |
| variant | C-1FTB ⓘ |
| wingspan | 30.6 m ⓘ |
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: Kawasaki C-1 Description of subject: The Kawasaki C-1 is a Japanese twin-engine short-range military transport aircraft designed and built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries for tactical airlift operations.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kawasaki C-1
linked to: Kawasaki C-1