Voyager KC2
E2271
Airbus A330 MRTT variant
air-to-air refuelling aircraft
military aircraft
multi-role tanker transport
Voyager KC2 is an Airbus A330-based multi-role tanker transport aircraft used by the Royal Air Force for air-to-air refuelling and strategic airlift operations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Voyager KC2 canonical | 4 |
| Voyager KC3 | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T30086 — 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: Voyager KC2 Context triple: [Royal Air Force, notableAircraft, Voyager KC2]
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A.
Porter
Porter is a transit station in Cambridge, Massachusetts that serves both MBTA commuter rail and Red Line subway services.
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B.
Rockwell
Rockwell is an American singer and songwriter best known for his 1984 hit single "Somebody's Watching Me."
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C.
Armstrong
Armstrong is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, exploration, music, and sports.
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D.
Station HYPO
Station HYPO was a U.S. Navy signals intelligence and cryptanalysis unit in Hawaii that played a crucial role in breaking Japanese naval codes and enabling the American victory at the Battle of Midway.
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E.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
- 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: Voyager KC2 Target entity description: Voyager KC2 is an Airbus A330-based multi-role tanker transport aircraft used by the Royal Air Force for air-to-air refuelling and strategic airlift operations.
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A.
Porter
Porter is a transit station in Cambridge, Massachusetts that serves both MBTA commuter rail and Red Line subway services.
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B.
Rockwell
Rockwell is an American singer and songwriter best known for his 1984 hit single "Somebody's Watching Me."
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C.
Armstrong
Armstrong is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, exploration, music, and sports.
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D.
Station HYPO
Station HYPO was a U.S. Navy signals intelligence and cryptanalysis unit in Hawaii that played a crucial role in breaking Japanese naval codes and enabling the American victory at the Battle of Midway.
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E.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Airbus A330 MRTT variant
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air-to-air refuelling aircraft ⓘ military aircraft ⓘ multi-role tanker transport ⓘ |
| aircraftConfigurationDifferenceFromVoyagerKC3 | lacks centreline fuselage refuelling unit ⓘ |
| aircraftRole |
air-to-air refuelling
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cargo transport ⓘ medical evacuation ⓘ passenger transport ⓘ strategic airlift ⓘ |
| aircraftType | twin-engine wide-body jet ⓘ |
| airRefuellingBoom | none ⓘ |
| airRefuellingMethod | hose-and-drogue ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Airbus A330 MRTT Phénix
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surface form:
Airbus A330-200
|
| belongsToProgramme | Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft programme ⓘ |
| canBeConfiguredAs |
medical evacuation layout
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passenger and freight combi layout ⓘ passenger-only layout ⓘ |
| cargoCapability | strategic airlift of personnel and equipment ⓘ |
| configuration | two underwing refuelling pods ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crew | cockpit crew plus mission crew ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Airbus A330 MRTT Phénix
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surface form:
Airbus A330 MRTT
|
| engineType | turbofan ⓘ |
| enteredServiceWith | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| fuelType | jet fuel ⓘ |
| hasLandingGear | tricycle retractable landing gear ⓘ |
| hasRefuellingCapabilityFor |
fast jets
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other hose-and-drogue capable aircraft ⓘ |
| hasWingConfiguration | low-wing monoplane ⓘ |
| isMilitaryVariantOf |
Airbus A330 MRTT Phénix
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surface form:
Airbus A330 airliner
|
| manufacturer |
Airbus
ⓘ
surface form:
Airbus Defence and Space
|
| operator | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf |
Royal Air Force
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surface form:
RAF Voyager fleet
|
| primaryBase | RAF Brize Norton ⓘ |
| registrationPrefix | ZZ ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| usedBy | RAF Air Mobility Force ⓘ |
| usedFor |
humanitarian airlift
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long-range air-to-air refuelling missions ⓘ strategic air transport ⓘ troop transport ⓘ |
| usedIn |
airbridge operations for UK armed forces
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overseas deployment support ⓘ training for air-to-air refuelling ⓘ |
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: Voyager KC2 Description of subject: Voyager KC2 is an Airbus A330-based multi-role tanker transport aircraft used by the Royal Air Force for air-to-air refuelling and strategic airlift operations.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Voyager KC3
this entity surface form:
Voyager KC3