Ford Model A (1927)
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The Ford Model A (1927) was Ford Motor Company's second major mass-produced car, notable for its improved performance, styling, and comfort compared to the Model T and for helping modernize the American automobile market at the end of the 1920s.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ford Model A | 4 |
| Ford Model A (1903) | 1 |
| Ford Model A (1927) canonical | 1 |
| Ford Model A (1927–1931) | 1 |
| Model A Ford | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T199042 — 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: Ford Model A (1927) Context triple: [Ford Model T, successor, Ford Model A (1927)]
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A.
Ford Model T
The Ford Model T is an early 20th-century automobile that revolutionized personal transportation by making cars affordable to the mass market through assembly-line production.
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B.
Packard
Packard is a surname most prominently associated with David Packard, the American electrical engineer and co-founder of Hewlett-Packard.
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C.
DeSoto
DeSoto is a suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area in North Texas.
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D.
Oldsmobile Delmont 88
The Oldsmobile Delmont 88 is a full-size American car produced by Oldsmobile in the late 1960s, known historically for being the model involved in the Chappaquiddick incident.
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E.
Ford Mustang
The Ford Mustang is an iconic American sports car known for its powerful performance, distinctive styling, and central role in popular car culture since the 1960s.
- 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: Ford Model A (1927) Target entity description: The Ford Model A (1927) was Ford Motor Company's second major mass-produced car, notable for its improved performance, styling, and comfort compared to the Model T and for helping modernize the American automobile market at the end of the 1920s.
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A.
Ford Model T
The Ford Model T is an early 20th-century automobile that revolutionized personal transportation by making cars affordable to the mass market through assembly-line production.
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B.
Packard
Packard is a surname most prominently associated with David Packard, the American electrical engineer and co-founder of Hewlett-Packard.
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C.
DeSoto
DeSoto is a suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area in North Texas.
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D.
Oldsmobile Delmont 88
The Oldsmobile Delmont 88 is a full-size American car produced by Oldsmobile in the late 1960s, known historically for being the model involved in the Chappaquiddick incident.
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E.
Ford Mustang
The Ford Mustang is an iconic American sports car known for its powerful performance, distinctive styling, and central role in popular car culture since the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ford vehicle
ⓘ
automobile model ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
A-Model Ford
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Ford Model A (1927) ⓘ
surface form:
Ford Model A
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| assemblyLocation |
Dearborn, Michigan, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Dearborn, Michigan
Highland Park, Michigan ⓘ various Ford plants worldwide ⓘ |
| bodyStyle |
2-door coupe
ⓘ
2-door sedan ⓘ 4-door sedan ⓘ phaeton ⓘ pickup truck ⓘ roadster ⓘ station wagon ⓘ |
| brakeType | four-wheel mechanical drum brakes ⓘ |
| category |
1920s automobiles
ⓘ
1930s automobiles ⓘ Ford Motor Company ⓘ
surface form:
Ford automobiles
|
| class | compact car ⓘ |
| engineConfiguration | inline-four engine ⓘ |
| engineDisplacement |
201 cu in
ⓘ
3.3 L ⓘ |
| fuelSystem | carbureted ⓘ |
| fuelType | gasoline ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
helped modernize the American automobile market in the late 1920s
ⓘ
second major mass-produced car by Ford after the Model T ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Henry Ford ⓘ |
| layout | front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Ford Motor Company ⓘ |
| market |
Canada
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| modelYearStart | 1928 ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
conventional pedal and control layout
ⓘ
electric starter ⓘ greater comfort than Ford Model T ⓘ hydraulic shock absorbers ⓘ improved performance compared to Ford Model T ⓘ more modern styling than Ford Model T ⓘ safety glass windshield ⓘ |
| powerOutput | approximately 40 hp ⓘ |
| predecessor | Ford Model T ⓘ |
| productionEndYear | 1931 ⓘ |
| productionStartYear | 1927 ⓘ |
| productionVolume | over 4 million units produced ⓘ |
| successor |
Ford Model B (1932)
ⓘ
surface form:
Ford Model 18
Ford Model B (1932) ⓘ |
| topSpeed | about 65 mph ⓘ |
| transmission | 3-speed manual transmission ⓘ |
| wheelbase | 103.5 in ⓘ |
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: Ford Model A (1927) Description of subject: The Ford Model A (1927) was Ford Motor Company's second major mass-produced car, notable for its improved performance, styling, and comfort compared to the Model T and for helping modernize the American automobile market at the end of the 1920s.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ford Model A
this entity surface form:
Ford Model A
this entity surface form:
Ford Model A (1903)
this entity surface form:
Ford Model A
this entity surface form:
Model A Ford
this entity surface form:
Ford Model A (1927–1931)
this entity surface form:
Ford Model A