Meteor F.4
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The Meteor F.4 was an early post-World War II British jet fighter variant of the Gloster Meteor, featuring improved engines and performance over its predecessors.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Meteor F.4 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2937699 — 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 F.4 Context triple: [Gloster Meteor, variant, Meteor F.4]
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A.
Meteor F.3
The Meteor F.3 was an early production fighter variant of Britain’s Gloster Meteor, notable as one of the first operational jet fighters used by the Royal Air Force during and shortly after World War II.
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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.
Swift F.4
The Swift F.4 was a later, improved fighter variant of the British Supermarine Swift jet, featuring enhanced performance and handling over earlier models.
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D.
Swift F.1
The Swift F.1 was an early production variant of the British Supermarine Swift jet fighter, used briefly by the Royal Air Force in the 1950s.
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E.
Swift F.2
The Swift F.2 was an early production fighter variant of the British Supermarine Swift jet, featuring improved armament and performance over the initial models.
- 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 F.4 Target entity description: The Meteor F.4 was an early post-World War II British jet fighter variant of the Gloster Meteor, featuring improved engines and performance over its predecessors.
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A.
Meteor F.3
The Meteor F.3 was an early production fighter variant of Britain’s Gloster Meteor, notable as one of the first operational jet fighters used by the Royal Air Force during and shortly after World War II.
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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.
Swift F.4
The Swift F.4 was a later, improved fighter variant of the British Supermarine Swift jet, featuring enhanced performance and handling over earlier models.
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D.
Swift F.1
The Swift F.1 was an early production variant of the British Supermarine Swift jet fighter, used briefly by the Royal Air Force in the 1950s.
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E.
Swift F.2
The Swift F.2 was an early production fighter variant of the British Supermarine Swift jet, featuring improved armament and performance over the initial models.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gloster Meteor variant
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jet fighter aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftFamily | Gloster Meteor ⓘ |
| aircraftType | single-seat fighter ⓘ |
| airframeMaterial | all-metal ⓘ |
| airIntakeLocation | wing roots ⓘ |
| armament | Hispano 20 mm cannon ⓘ |
| conflictInvolvement | Arab–Israeli conflicts (via export users) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crew | 1 ⓘ |
| engineConfiguration | twin-engine ⓘ |
| engineModel |
Rolls-Royce Derwent
ⓘ
surface form:
Rolls-Royce Derwent 5
|
| enteredRAFService | mid-1940s ⓘ |
| era | early post-World War II ⓘ |
| exportedTo |
Argentina
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Belgium ⓘ Denmark ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ Syria ⓘ |
| feature |
higher maximum speed than Meteor F.3
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improved rate of climb ⓘ more powerful Derwent engines ⓘ shortened wings compared to earlier Meteors ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1945 ⓘ |
| fuselageType | straight fuselage ⓘ |
| improvementOver | Meteor F.3 ⓘ |
| introduced | 1945 ⓘ |
| landingGear | retractable tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Gloster Aircraft Company ⓘ |
| maximumSpeedClass | around 580 mph ⓘ |
| notableFor | being among the first operational British jet fighters in postwar service ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 2 ⓘ |
| operatorType | military ⓘ |
| powerplantType | turbojet engine ⓘ |
| primaryArmamentCount | 4 ⓘ |
| role | fighter ⓘ |
| serviceCeilingClass | over 40,000 ft ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successor | Meteor F.8 ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | conventional tailplane ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Argentine Air Force
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Belgian Air Force ⓘ Royal Danish Air Force ⓘ
surface form:
Danish Air Force
Royal Air Force ⓘ Royal Netherlands Air Force ⓘ Syrian Arab Air Force ⓘ
surface form:
Syrian Air Force
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| wingConfiguration | low-wing monoplane ⓘ |
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: Meteor F.4 Description of subject: The Meteor F.4 was an early post-World War II British jet fighter variant of the Gloster Meteor, featuring improved engines and performance over its predecessors.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.