Antonov An-124 Ruslan
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The Antonov An-124 Ruslan is a large Soviet-designed strategic airlift cargo aircraft renowned for its heavy-lift capability and use in both military and commercial operations worldwide.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Antonov An-124 Ruslan canonical | 9 |
| Antonov An-124 | 2 |
| An-124 | 1 |
| Antonov An-124 (testbed) | 1 |
| Antonov An-124-100 | 1 |
| Antonov cargo plane | 1 |
| developed the An-124 Ruslan, one of the largest military transport aircraft | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2911873 — 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-124 Ruslan Context triple: [Military Transport Aviation, aircraftOperated, Antonov An-124 Ruslan]
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A.
Antonov An-22
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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B.
Ilyushin Il-96 (historically)
The Ilyushin Il-96 is a Russian long-range, wide-body airliner introduced in the late 1980s and used primarily for intercontinental passenger and VIP transport.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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-124 Ruslan Target entity description: The Antonov An-124 Ruslan is a large Soviet-designed strategic airlift cargo aircraft renowned for its heavy-lift capability and use in both military and commercial operations worldwide.
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A.
Antonov An-22
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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B.
Ilyushin Il-96 (historically)
The Ilyushin Il-96 is a Russian long-range, wide-body airliner introduced in the late 1980s and used primarily for intercontinental passenger and VIP transport.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
military transport aircraft
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strategic airlift cargo aircraft ⓘ wide-body aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory | heavy transport aircraft ⓘ |
| cargoHoldHeight | about 4.4 m ⓘ |
| cargoHoldLength | about 36.5 m ⓘ |
| cargoHoldWidth | about 6.4 m ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crew | 4 ⓘ |
| cruiseSpeed | about 800 km/h ⓘ |
| designedIn | late 1970s ⓘ |
| engineModel | Ivchenko-Progress D-18T ⓘ |
| engineType | turbofan ⓘ |
| enteredServiceWith | Soviet Air Forces ⓘ |
| ferryRange | about 15000 km ⓘ |
| firstFlightDate | 1982-12-24 ⓘ |
| firstOperator | Soviet Air Forces ⓘ |
| fuselageType | double-deck forward section ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
kneeling nose landing gear
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multi-wheel main landing gear ⓘ nose cargo door ⓘ rear cargo ramp ⓘ |
| height | about 21.1 m ⓘ |
| introduced | 1986 ⓘ |
| length | about 69.1 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Antonov Design Bureau ⓘ |
| maximumPayload | about 120000 kg ⓘ |
| maximumTakeoffWeight | about 405000 kg ⓘ |
| NATOReportingName | Condor ⓘ |
| notableFor |
global charter cargo operations
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heavy-lift capability ⓘ transport of oversized industrial equipment ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 4 ⓘ |
| pressurizedCargoHold | true ⓘ |
| primaryRole |
heavy cargo transport
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strategic airlift ⓘ |
| rangeWithMaxPayload | about 4800 km ⓘ |
| status | in service ⓘ |
| successor | Antonov An-225 Mriya ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | T-tail ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Antonov Airlines
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Maximus Air Cargo ⓘ Russian Air Force ⓘ Ukrainian Air Force ⓘ Volga-Dnepr Airlines ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial cargo operations
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military transport ⓘ outsized cargo transport ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | high-wing ⓘ |
| wingspan | about 73.3 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-124 Ruslan Description of subject: The Antonov An-124 Ruslan is a large Soviet-designed strategic airlift cargo aircraft renowned for its heavy-lift capability and use in both military and commercial operations worldwide.
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developed the An-124 Ruslan, one of the largest military transport aircraft
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