Boeing C-40
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The Boeing C-40 is a military transport and executive transport aircraft derived from the Boeing 737 airliner and used by the U.S. Air Force for personnel and VIP airlift missions.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boeing 737 AEW&C | 1 |
| Boeing C-40 canonical | 1 |
| Boeing C-40 Clipper | 1 |
| Boeing C-40A Clipper | 1 |
| Boeing C-40B | 1 |
| Boeing C-40C | 1 |
| C-40 | 1 |
| C-40 Clipper | 1 |
| C-40 VIP transport aircraft | 1 |
| C-40B | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1199359 — 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 C-40 Context triple: [89th Airlift Wing, operatesAircraftType, Boeing C-40]
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A.
Boeing C-32
The Boeing C-32 is a military VIP transport aircraft used by the United States Air Force, most notably to carry the U.S. vice president and other senior officials.
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B.
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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C.
Boeing E-767
The Boeing E-767 is an airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft based on the Boeing 767 airframe, equipped with advanced radar and surveillance systems for command and control missions.
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D.
Pilatus PC-7
The Pilatus PC-7 is a Swiss-built turboprop military trainer aircraft widely used for basic flight training by air forces around the world.
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E.
Cessna 208 Caravan
The Cessna 208 Caravan is a single-engine turboprop utility aircraft widely used for regional passenger service, cargo transport, and short takeoff and landing operations.
- 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 C-40 Target entity description: The Boeing C-40 is a military transport and executive transport aircraft derived from the Boeing 737 airliner and used by the U.S. Air Force for personnel and VIP airlift missions.
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A.
Boeing C-32
The Boeing C-32 is a military VIP transport aircraft used by the United States Air Force, most notably to carry the U.S. vice president and other senior officials.
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B.
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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C.
Boeing E-767
The Boeing E-767 is an airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft based on the Boeing 767 airframe, equipped with advanced radar and surveillance systems for command and control missions.
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D.
Pilatus PC-7
The Pilatus PC-7 is a Swiss-built turboprop military trainer aircraft widely used for basic flight training by air forces around the world.
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E.
Cessna 208 Caravan
The Cessna 208 Caravan is a single-engine turboprop utility aircraft widely used for regional passenger service, cargo transport, and short takeoff and landing operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Boeing aircraft
ⓘ
executive transport aircraft ⓘ executive transport aircraft ⓘ executive transport aircraft ⓘ military transport aircraft ⓘ military transport aircraft ⓘ |
| airframeOrigin |
Boeing 737-700
ⓘ
Boeing 737-700 ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing 737-700C
|
| basedOn |
Boeing 737
ⓘ
Boeing 737-700 ⓘ Boeing 737-700 ⓘ Boeing 737-700 ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing 737-700C
|
| belongsToSeries |
Boeing 737
ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing 737 family
|
| configuration |
cargo
ⓘ
combi ⓘ passenger ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crew | flight crew ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | commercial airliner ⓘ |
| designedFor | short to medium range flights ⓘ |
| engineType | turbofan ⓘ |
| enteredServiceWith | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| fuselageConfiguration | narrow-body ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryDesignation |
Boeing C-40
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
C-40
|
| landingGear | tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Boeing ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 2 ⓘ |
| operator |
United States Air Force
ⓘ
United States Air Force ⓘ United States Air Force ⓘ United States Navy ⓘ |
| powerplantManufacturer |
Safran Aircraft Engines
ⓘ
surface form:
CFM International
|
| primaryUser |
United States Air Force
ⓘ
United States Navy ⓘ |
| role |
VIP transport
ⓘ
VIP transport ⓘ VIP transport ⓘ personnel transport ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | conventional tail ⓘ |
| usedBy |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. government
|
| usedFor |
distinguished visitor transport
ⓘ
government official transport ⓘ senior military leader transport ⓘ |
| usedIn | airlift missions ⓘ |
| variant |
Boeing C-40
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing C-40A Clipper
Boeing C-40 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing C-40B
Boeing C-40 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing C-40C
|
| wingConfiguration | low-wing ⓘ |
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 C-40 Description of subject: The Boeing C-40 is a military transport and executive transport aircraft derived from the Boeing 737 airliner and used by the U.S. Air Force for personnel and VIP airlift missions.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Boeing C-40 Clipper
this entity surface form:
Boeing C-40A Clipper
this entity surface form:
Boeing C-40B
this entity surface form:
Boeing C-40C
this entity surface form:
C-40
this entity surface form:
Boeing 737 AEW&C
this entity surface form:
C-40 Clipper
this entity surface form:
C-40B
this entity surface form:
C-40 VIP transport aircraft