Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
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The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is a long-serving U.S. Air Force aerial refueling aircraft, introduced in the late 1950s and based on the Boeing 707 airframe, that has been a backbone of American air mobility and global reach for decades.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KC-135 Stratotanker | 25 |
| Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker canonical | 6 |
| KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft | 2 |
| KC-135R Stratotanker | 2 |
| Boeing C-135 Stratolifter | 1 |
| Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker | 1 |
| Boeing KC-135T Stratotanker | 1 |
| KC-135 Stratotanker (associate and support roles) | 1 |
| KC-135A | 1 |
| KC-135R | 1 |
| KC-135T | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1301169 — 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.
Target entity: Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker Context triple: [Boeing KC-46 Pegasus, designedToReplace, Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker]
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Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, subsonic strategic bomber used by the United States Air Force since the 1950s, renowned for its heavy payload capacity and exceptional longevity in service.
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Lockheed C-130 Hercules
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four‑engine turboprop military transport aircraft renowned worldwide for its versatility in tactical airlift, humanitarian missions, and special operations since the 1950s.
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RAF Tristar
RAF Tristar was a fleet of converted Lockheed L-1011 TriStar aircraft used by the Royal Air Force primarily for air-to-air refuelling and transport duties.
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B-1B Lancer
The B-1B Lancer is a U.S. Air Force supersonic, long-range strategic bomber designed for low-level penetration and heavy payload delivery.
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Boeing 727
The Boeing 727 is a mid-sized, three-engine narrow-body jet airliner introduced in the 1960s that became one of the most widely used commercial aircraft for short- and medium-haul routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker Target entity description: The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is a long-serving U.S. Air Force aerial refueling aircraft, introduced in the late 1950s and based on the Boeing 707 airframe, that has been a backbone of American air mobility and global reach for decades.
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A.
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, subsonic strategic bomber used by the United States Air Force since the 1950s, renowned for its heavy payload capacity and exceptional longevity in service.
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B.
Lockheed C-130 Hercules
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four‑engine turboprop military transport aircraft renowned worldwide for its versatility in tactical airlift, humanitarian missions, and special operations since the 1950s.
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C.
RAF Tristar
RAF Tristar was a fleet of converted Lockheed L-1011 TriStar aircraft used by the Royal Air Force primarily for air-to-air refuelling and transport duties.
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D.
B-1B Lancer
The B-1B Lancer is a U.S. Air Force supersonic, long-range strategic bomber designed for low-level penetration and heavy payload delivery.
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E.
Boeing 727
The Boeing 727 is a mid-sized, three-engine narrow-body jet airliner introduced in the 1960s that became one of the most widely used commercial aircraft for short- and medium-haul routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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.
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.
Subject: Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker Description of subject: The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is a long-serving U.S. Air Force aerial refueling aircraft, introduced in the late 1950s and based on the Boeing 707 airframe, that has been a backbone of American air mobility and global reach for decades.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.