Boeing 737 MAX 8
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The Boeing 737 MAX 8 is a modern, fuel-efficient narrow-body airliner in Boeing’s 737 MAX family, widely used for short- to medium-haul commercial flights and known for its advanced engines and controversial grounding following two fatal crashes.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 canonical | 17 |
| Boeing 737-8 MAX | 2 |
| Boeing 737 MAX | 1 |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1037765 — 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: Boeing 737 MAX 8 Context triple: [Boeing 737, notableVariant, Boeing 737 MAX 8]
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A.
Boeing 737
The Boeing 737 is a widely used narrow-body commercial jet airliner known for being one of the best-selling passenger aircraft in aviation history.
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B.
Boeing 787 Dreamliner
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is a long-haul, wide-body commercial airliner known for its fuel efficiency, extensive use of composite materials, and advanced passenger comfort features.
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C.
Boeing 777
The Boeing 777 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner widely used by airlines around the world for international passenger flights.
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D.
Boeing KC-46 Pegasus
The Boeing KC-46 Pegasus is a modern U.S. military aerial refueling and strategic transport aircraft developed from the Boeing 767 airliner.
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E.
Airbus A350
The Airbus A350 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner made largely of composite materials and designed to compete with the Boeing 787 and 777 in fuel-efficient long-haul travel.
- 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: Boeing 737 MAX 8 Target entity description: The Boeing 737 MAX 8 is a modern, fuel-efficient narrow-body airliner in Boeing’s 737 MAX family, widely used for short- to medium-haul commercial flights and known for its advanced engines and controversial grounding following two fatal crashes.
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A.
Boeing 737
The Boeing 737 is a widely used narrow-body commercial jet airliner known for being one of the best-selling passenger aircraft in aviation history.
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B.
Boeing 787 Dreamliner
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is a long-haul, wide-body commercial airliner known for its fuel efficiency, extensive use of composite materials, and advanced passenger comfort features.
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C.
Boeing 777
The Boeing 777 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner widely used by airlines around the world for international passenger flights.
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D.
Boeing KC-46 Pegasus
The Boeing KC-46 Pegasus is a modern U.S. military aerial refueling and strategic transport aircraft developed from the Boeing 767 airliner.
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E.
Airbus A350
The Airbus A350 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner made largely of composite materials and designed to compete with the Boeing 787 and 777 in fuel-efficient long-haul travel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Boeing 737 MAX family member
ⓘ
narrow-body jet airliner ⓘ |
| accidentDate |
2018-10-29
ⓘ
2019-03-10 ⓘ |
| aircraftFamily | Boeing 737 ⓘ |
| aircraftType | twin-engine jet ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Boeing 737
ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing 737-800
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crew | 2 ⓘ |
| cruiseSpeed_Mach | 0.79 ⓘ |
| designGoal |
improved fuel efficiency
ⓘ
reduced operating costs ⓘ |
| engineType | CFM International LEAP-1B ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 2017-01-29 ⓘ |
| fuelType | Jet A ⓘ |
| fuselageType | narrow-body ⓘ |
| globalGroundingEnd_US | 2020-11 ⓘ |
| globalGroundingStart | 2019-03 ⓘ |
| hasSoftwareSystem | MCAS ⓘ |
| height_m | 12.3 ⓘ |
| icaoTypeDesignator | B38M ⓘ |
| introduced | 2017-05-22 ⓘ |
| launchCustomer |
Lion Air
ⓘ
surface form:
Lion Air Group
Malindo Air ⓘ |
| length_m | 39.52 ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Boeing
ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
|
| marketSegment | single-aisle airliner ⓘ |
| maximumSeatingCapacity | 210 ⓘ |
| maxTakeoffWeight_kg | 82191 ⓘ |
| notableAccident |
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
ⓘ
2018 Lion Air Flight 610 crash site ⓘ
surface form:
Lion Air Flight 610
|
| notableControversy | worldwide grounding after two fatal crashes ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
advanced avionics
ⓘ
high-bypass LEAP-1B engines ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 2 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Boeing 737 MAX ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
medium-haul flights
ⓘ
short-haul flights ⓘ |
| range_km | 6570 ⓘ |
| range_nm | 3550 ⓘ |
| regulator |
EASA
ⓘ
Federal Aviation Administration ⓘ
surface form:
FAA
|
| role | commercial passenger airliner ⓘ |
| status | in commercial service ⓘ |
| successorTo |
Boeing 737
ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing 737-800
|
| typicalTwoClassCapacity | 162 ⓘ |
| wingletType | Advanced Technology winglets ⓘ |
| wingspan_m | 35.9 ⓘ |
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: Boeing 737 MAX 8 Description of subject: The Boeing 737 MAX 8 is a modern, fuel-efficient narrow-body airliner in Boeing’s 737 MAX family, widely used for short- to medium-haul commercial flights and known for its advanced engines and controversial grounding following two fatal crashes.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Boeing 737 MAX 8-200
this entity surface form:
Boeing 737 MAX
subject surface form:
Norwegian Air Shuttle
subject surface form:
Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA
this entity surface form:
Boeing 737-8 MAX
subject surface form:
Flair Airlines
this entity surface form:
Boeing 737-8 MAX