Antonov An-22
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The Antonov An-22 is a Soviet-era, four-engine turboprop strategic airlifter that was once the world’s largest aircraft, designed to carry heavy and oversized military and cargo loads over long distances.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Antonov An-22 canonical | 2 |
| An-22 heavy transport | 1 |
| An-22A | 1 |
| Antonov An-22 (testbed) | 1 |
| Antonov An-22A | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2911872 — 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: Antonov An-22 Context triple: [Military Transport Aviation, aircraftOperated, Antonov An-22]
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A.
Antonov An-12
The Antonov An-12 is a Soviet-era four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft widely used for cargo and troop transport by numerous air forces and civilian operators around the world.
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B.
Antonov An-32
The Antonov An-32 is a twin-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed for hot-and-high operations, widely used for tactical airlift and cargo missions.
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C.
Tupolev Tu-126
The Tupolev Tu-126 is a Soviet-era airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft developed from the Tu-114 airliner and used primarily by the Soviet Air Forces during the Cold War.
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D.
Tupolev Tu-119
The Tupolev Tu-119 was a Soviet experimental variant of the Tu-95 bomber designed to test nuclear-powered aircraft propulsion during the Cold War.
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E.
Tupolev Tu-114 airliner
The Tupolev Tu-114 airliner is a Soviet long-range turboprop passenger aircraft, renowned for being one of the fastest and largest propeller-driven airliners ever built and for serving prestigious international routes during the Cold War era.
- 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: Antonov An-22 Target entity description: The Antonov An-22 is a Soviet-era, four-engine turboprop strategic airlifter that was once the world’s largest aircraft, designed to carry heavy and oversized military and cargo loads over long distances.
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A.
Antonov An-12
The Antonov An-12 is a Soviet-era four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft widely used for cargo and troop transport by numerous air forces and civilian operators around the world.
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B.
Antonov An-32
The Antonov An-32 is a twin-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed for hot-and-high operations, widely used for tactical airlift and cargo missions.
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C.
Tupolev Tu-126
The Tupolev Tu-126 is a Soviet-era airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft developed from the Tu-114 airliner and used primarily by the Soviet Air Forces during the Cold War.
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D.
Tupolev Tu-119
The Tupolev Tu-119 was a Soviet experimental variant of the Tu-95 bomber designed to test nuclear-powered aircraft propulsion during the Cold War.
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E.
Tupolev Tu-114 airliner
The Tupolev Tu-114 airliner is a Soviet long-range turboprop passenger aircraft, renowned for being one of the fastest and largest propeller-driven airliners ever built and for serving prestigious international routes during the Cold War era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet aircraft
ⓘ
military transport aircraft ⓘ strategic airlifter ⓘ turboprop aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftConfiguration | four-engine turboprop ⓘ |
| airframeMaterial | metal monocoque ⓘ |
| cargoHoldType | pressurized cargo hold ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crew |
5
ⓘ
6 ⓘ |
| cruiseSpeed | about 600–650 km/h ⓘ |
| designedBy | Oleg Antonov ⓘ |
| designedFor |
heavy and oversized cargo
ⓘ
long-range operations ⓘ military transport missions ⓘ |
| engineModel | Kuznetsov NK-12 ⓘ |
| engineType | turboprop ⓘ |
| enteredServiceWith |
Soviet Air Forces
ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet Military Transport Aviation
|
| firstFlight | 1965-02-27 ⓘ |
| hasCargoLoading | rear loading ramp ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Antonov An-22
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Antonov An-22A
|
| height | approximately 12.5 m ⓘ |
| introduced | 1969 ⓘ |
| landingGearType | multi-bogey retractable landing gear ⓘ |
| length | approximately 57.9 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Antonov Design Bureau ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 740 km/h ⓘ |
| maximumTakeoffWeight | ~250000 kg ⓘ |
| NATOreportingName | Cock ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
largest turboprop-powered aircraft ever built
ⓘ
world’s largest aircraft at time of introduction ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | about 68 ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 4 ⓘ |
| payloadCapacity | over 80000 kg ⓘ |
| primaryUser |
Russian Air Force
ⓘ
Soviet Air Forces ⓘ Ukrainian Air Force ⓘ |
| productionPeriod | 1960s–1970s ⓘ |
| propellerConfiguration | contra-rotating propellers ⓘ |
| range | over 5000 km with maximum payload ⓘ |
| role |
heavy cargo transport
ⓘ
strategic airlift ⓘ |
| serviceCeiling | about 8000–9000 m ⓘ |
| status | in limited service ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | T-tail ⓘ |
| usedFor |
airlifting military equipment
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oversized cargo transport ⓘ transporting humanitarian aid ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | high-wing ⓘ |
| wingspan | approximately 64.4 m ⓘ |
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: Antonov An-22 Description of subject: The Antonov An-22 is a Soviet-era, four-engine turboprop strategic airlifter that was once the world’s largest aircraft, designed to carry heavy and oversized military and cargo loads over long distances.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Rolls-Royce Olympus
this entity surface form:
Antonov An-22 (testbed)
this entity surface form:
An-22A
this entity surface form:
An-22 heavy transport
this entity surface form:
Antonov An-22A