Meteor NF.12
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The Meteor NF.12 was a British twin-engine, all-weather night fighter variant of the Gloster Meteor jet, featuring an extended nose to house advanced radar equipment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Meteor NF.12 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2937702 — 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: Meteor NF.12 Context triple: [Gloster Meteor, variant, Meteor NF.12]
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A.
Meteor NF.11
The Meteor NF.11 was a British twin-engine, jet-powered night fighter variant of the Gloster Meteor, equipped with radar for all-weather interception duties in the early Cold War era.
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B.
Meteor F.1
The Meteor F.1 was the first operational variant of Britain’s Gloster Meteor jet fighter and one of the earliest jet-powered combat aircraft to enter service during World War II.
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C.
Meteor T.7
The Meteor T.7 is a two-seat trainer version of the British Gloster Meteor jet fighter, used primarily for pilot instruction and conversion training.
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D.
Météores
Météores is one of the scientific essays by René Descartes, accompanying his Discours de la méthode and focusing on the study of meteorological and atmospheric phenomena.
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E.
Aira Force
Aira Force is a picturesque waterfall in England’s Lake District, renowned for its dramatic cascades, woodland trails, and stone arch bridge.
- 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: Meteor NF.12 Target entity description: The Meteor NF.12 was a British twin-engine, all-weather night fighter variant of the Gloster Meteor jet, featuring an extended nose to house advanced radar equipment.
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A.
Meteor NF.11
The Meteor NF.11 was a British twin-engine, jet-powered night fighter variant of the Gloster Meteor, equipped with radar for all-weather interception duties in the early Cold War era.
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B.
Meteor F.1
The Meteor F.1 was the first operational variant of Britain’s Gloster Meteor jet fighter and one of the earliest jet-powered combat aircraft to enter service during World War II.
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C.
Meteor T.7
The Meteor T.7 is a two-seat trainer version of the British Gloster Meteor jet fighter, used primarily for pilot instruction and conversion training.
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D.
Météores
Météores is one of the scientific essays by René Descartes, accompanying his Discours de la méthode and focusing on the study of meteorological and atmospheric phenomena.
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E.
Aira Force
Aira Force is a picturesque waterfall in England’s Lake District, renowned for its dramatic cascades, woodland trails, and stone arch bridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gloster Meteor variant
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jet aircraft ⓘ military aircraft ⓘ night fighter aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory |
fighter aircraft
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jet-powered military aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftConfiguration | twin-boom tail with single fin ⓘ |
| aircraftGeneration | first-generation jet fighter ⓘ |
| aircraftRole | all-weather night fighter ⓘ |
| armament | cannon armament in fuselage nose or lower fuselage ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crew | 2 ⓘ |
| crewRole |
pilot
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radar operator ⓘ |
| designedBy | Gloster design team ⓘ |
| designedFor | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| designedForCapability |
all-weather interception
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night operations ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Gloster Meteor ⓘ |
| engineType | turbojet ⓘ |
| era | Cold War ⓘ |
| followedBy | Meteor NF.13 ⓘ |
| hasAvionics | airborne interception radar ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
all-metal airframe
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extended nose ⓘ mid-mounted straight wings ⓘ pressurized cockpit ⓘ radar-equipped nose ⓘ side-by-side seating ⓘ tricycle landing gear ⓘ twin-engine configuration ⓘ two-seat cockpit ⓘ |
| hasLandingGear | retractable tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| hasNoseDesign | lengthened nose for radar installation ⓘ |
| hasWingConfiguration | low- to mid-wing monoplane ⓘ |
| introducedAs | improved night fighter version of the Meteor ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Gloster Aircraft Company ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 2 ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf |
Gloster Meteor
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surface form:
Gloster Meteor family
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| powerplant |
Rolls-Royce Derwent turbojet
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surface form:
Rolls-Royce Derwent 8 turbojet
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| precededBy | Meteor NF.11 ⓘ |
| radarType | AI radar ⓘ |
| usedFor |
air defence
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all-weather night fighting ⓘ |
| usedIn | air defence of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Meteor NF.12 Description of subject: The Meteor NF.12 was a British twin-engine, all-weather night fighter variant of the Gloster Meteor jet, featuring an extended nose to house advanced radar equipment.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.