Vickers Viscount airliner
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The Vickers Viscount airliner was a pioneering British turboprop passenger aircraft renowned for its smooth, quiet operation and widespread use by airlines worldwide in the 1950s and 1960s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vickers Viscount | 2 |
| Vickers Viscount (re‑engined examples) | 1 |
| Vickers Viscount airliner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2023751 — 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: Vickers Viscount airliner Context triple: [Vickers-Armstrongs, notableProduct, Vickers Viscount airliner]
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Handley Page Victor
The Handley Page Victor was a British Cold War-era strategic bomber later adapted as an aerial refueling tanker, notable for its role supporting long-range missions such as the Falklands War Black Buck raids.
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Vickers VC.1 Viking airliner
The Vickers VC.1 Viking was a British twin‑engine short- to medium-range airliner developed in the 1940s that became one of the early postwar workhorses of European commercial aviation.
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Bristol Hercules
The Bristol Hercules was a British air-cooled, sleeve-valve radial aircraft engine widely used in World War II bombers and transport aircraft.
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D.
Avro Anson
The Avro Anson was a British twin‑engine, multi‑role aircraft widely used before and during World War II for maritime patrol, training, and transport duties.
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E.
Handley Page O/400
The Handley Page O/400 was a British World War I heavy bomber aircraft, notable as one of the first strategic bombers used in large-scale night bombing operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Vickers Viscount airliner Target entity description: The Vickers Viscount airliner was a pioneering British turboprop passenger aircraft renowned for its smooth, quiet operation and widespread use by airlines worldwide in the 1950s and 1960s.
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A.
Handley Page Victor
The Handley Page Victor was a British Cold War-era strategic bomber later adapted as an aerial refueling tanker, notable for its role supporting long-range missions such as the Falklands War Black Buck raids.
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B.
Vickers VC.1 Viking airliner
The Vickers VC.1 Viking was a British twin‑engine short- to medium-range airliner developed in the 1940s that became one of the early postwar workhorses of European commercial aviation.
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C.
Bristol Hercules
The Bristol Hercules was a British air-cooled, sleeve-valve radial aircraft engine widely used in World War II bombers and transport aircraft.
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D.
Avro Anson
The Avro Anson was a British twin‑engine, multi‑role aircraft widely used before and during World War II for maritime patrol, training, and transport duties.
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E.
Handley Page O/400
The Handley Page O/400 was a British World War I heavy bomber aircraft, notable as one of the first strategic bombers used in large-scale night bombing operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil airliner
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passenger aircraft ⓘ turboprop airliner ⓘ |
| aircraftConfiguration | low-wing monoplane ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crew | 3 to 4 ⓘ |
| cruiseSpeed |
about 308 knots
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about 570 km/h ⓘ |
| designedFor | post-war European trunk routes ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Vickers VC.2 (conceptually related to Viceroy/VC.2 design studies) ⓘ |
| engineType | turboprop ⓘ |
| firstCustomer | British European Airways ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1948-07-16 ⓘ |
| height | about 8.2 m ⓘ |
| icaoDesignation | VISCOUNT ⓘ |
| introduced | 1953 ⓘ |
| length | about 26 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Vickers-Armstrongs ⓘ |
| maximumPassengerCapacity | around 75 ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first turboprop airliner to achieve widespread international airline use
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first turboprop airliner to enter regular passenger service ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
large oval windows
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smooth and quiet operation ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 4 ⓘ |
| operator |
Aer Lingus
ⓘ
Air France ⓘ Ansett-ANA ⓘ British European Airways ⓘ Capital Airlines ⓘ Cubana de Aviación ⓘ KLM ⓘ Lufthansa ⓘ Trans-Canada Air Lines ⓘ |
| powerplant | Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop engine ⓘ |
| pressurisedCabin | true ⓘ |
| primaryRole | short- to medium-haul passenger transport ⓘ |
| productionPeriodEnd | mid-1960s ⓘ |
| productionPeriodStart | early 1950s ⓘ |
| range |
about 1,400 nautical miles
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about 2,600 km ⓘ |
| retiredFromMajorAirlineService | 1980s ⓘ |
| serviceCeiling | about 25,000 ft ⓘ |
| status | out of production ⓘ |
| successor | Vickers Vanguard ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | conventional tail ⓘ |
| totalBuilt | around 445 ⓘ |
| typicalPassengerCapacity | 40 to 75 ⓘ |
| usedInDecade |
1950s
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1960s ⓘ 1970s ⓘ 1980s ⓘ |
| wingspan | about 29 m ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Vickers Viscount airliner Description of subject: The Vickers Viscount airliner was a pioneering British turboprop passenger aircraft renowned for its smooth, quiet operation and widespread use by airlines worldwide in the 1950s and 1960s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.