Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited
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Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited was the restructured company formed after the collapse of the original Rolls-Royce Limited, continuing its aero-engine and engineering businesses under government control.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1109947 — 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: Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited Context triple: [Rolls-Royce Limited, successor, Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited]
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A.
Rolls-Royce Eagle
The Rolls-Royce Eagle was a pioneering British liquid-cooled V12 aircraft engine of World War I, widely used to power frontline bombers and reconnaissance aircraft.
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B.
Rolls-Royce XG-40
The Rolls-Royce XG-40 was an experimental British low-bypass turbofan engine program that served as the technological basis for the later Eurojet EJ200 fighter aircraft engine.
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C.
Rolls-Royce Phantom I
The Rolls-Royce Phantom I is a luxury automobile produced in the 1920s and early 1930s, renowned for its exceptional engineering, refinement, and status as one of the most prestigious cars of its era.
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D.
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost
The Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is an early 20th-century luxury automobile famed for its exceptional reliability, refinement, and role in establishing Rolls-Royce’s reputation as a maker of “the best car in the world.”
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E.
Aston Martin DB5
The Aston Martin DB5 is a classic British grand tourer made famous worldwide as James Bond’s iconic spy car, especially in the film "Goldfinger."
- 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: Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited Target entity description: Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited was the restructured company formed after the collapse of the original Rolls-Royce Limited, continuing its aero-engine and engineering businesses under government control.
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A.
Rolls-Royce Eagle
The Rolls-Royce Eagle was a pioneering British liquid-cooled V12 aircraft engine of World War I, widely used to power frontline bombers and reconnaissance aircraft.
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B.
Rolls-Royce XG-40
The Rolls-Royce XG-40 was an experimental British low-bypass turbofan engine program that served as the technological basis for the later Eurojet EJ200 fighter aircraft engine.
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C.
Rolls-Royce Phantom I
The Rolls-Royce Phantom I is a luxury automobile produced in the 1920s and early 1930s, renowned for its exceptional engineering, refinement, and status as one of the most prestigious cars of its era.
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D.
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost
The Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is an early 20th-century luxury automobile famed for its exceptional reliability, refinement, and role in establishing Rolls-Royce’s reputation as a maker of “the best car in the world.”
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E.
Aston Martin DB5
The Aston Martin DB5 is a classic British grand tourer made famous worldwide as James Bond’s iconic spy car, especially in the film "Goldfinger."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British company
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aerospace company ⓘ engineering company ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British aerospace industry
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UK defence sector ⓘ |
| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| continuedBusinessOf |
Rolls-Royce Limited aero-engine business
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Rolls-Royce Limited ⓘ
surface form:
Rolls-Royce Limited engineering business
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| controlledBy |
UK government
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surface form:
UK Government
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| coreProduct |
aero engines
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gas turbine engines ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| focus |
civil aviation engines
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military aviation engines ⓘ |
| formedAfter | collapse of Rolls-Royce Limited ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor |
Rolls-Royce Limited
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surface form:
Rolls-Royce plc
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| heritageFrom | original Rolls-Royce Limited engineering expertise ⓘ |
| industry |
aero engines
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engineering ⓘ |
| legalForm | limited company ⓘ |
| notableActivity | development and production of jet engines ⓘ |
| ownershipStatus | state-owned company ⓘ |
| parentCompanyOf | Rolls-Royce plc (at time of flotation restructuring) ⓘ |
| predecessor | Rolls-Royce Limited ⓘ |
| reasonForCreation |
to continue key defence and civil aerospace contracts
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to preserve UK aero-engine capability ⓘ |
| regulator | UK Government departments responsible for nationalised industries ⓘ |
| roleInEconomy | strategic defence supplier to UK Government ⓘ |
| sector | aerospace and defence ⓘ |
| status | restructured entity of Rolls-Royce business ⓘ |
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: Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited Description of subject: Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited was the restructured company formed after the collapse of the original Rolls-Royce Limited, continuing its aero-engine and engineering businesses under government control.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.