Airbus Beluga
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The Airbus Beluga is a large, whale-shaped cargo aircraft designed for transporting oversized aerospace components and other outsize freight.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Airbus Beluga canonical | 7 |
| Airbus BelugaXL | 6 |
| Airbus A300-600ST Super Transporter | 1 |
| Airbus BelugaST | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T292403 — 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: Airbus Beluga Context triple: [Airbus, product, Airbus Beluga]
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A.
Airbus A380
The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner that is the world's largest passenger aircraft, designed for long-haul, high-capacity flights.
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B.
Airbus A400M Atlas
The Airbus A400M Atlas is a European four‑engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed for tactical and strategic airlift, including heavy cargo and troop transport, aerial refueling, and medical evacuation.
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C.
Boeing 747SP
The Boeing 747SP is a shortened, long-range variant of the Boeing 747 airliner, notable for its use in specialized roles such as NASA’s SOFIA airborne observatory.
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D.
Bombardier M5000
The Bombardier M5000 is a modern, low-floor light rail tram used extensively on the Manchester Metrolink network in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is a wide-body, long-range commercial airliner famous for its distinctive hump-backed upper deck and for revolutionizing mass international air travel as one of the first jumbo jets.
- 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: Airbus Beluga Target entity description: The Airbus Beluga is a large, whale-shaped cargo aircraft designed for transporting oversized aerospace components and other outsize freight.
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A.
Airbus A380
The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner that is the world's largest passenger aircraft, designed for long-haul, high-capacity flights.
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B.
Airbus A400M Atlas
The Airbus A400M Atlas is a European four‑engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed for tactical and strategic airlift, including heavy cargo and troop transport, aerial refueling, and medical evacuation.
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C.
Boeing 747SP
The Boeing 747SP is a shortened, long-range variant of the Boeing 747 airliner, notable for its use in specialized roles such as NASA’s SOFIA airborne observatory.
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D.
Bombardier M5000
The Bombardier M5000 is a modern, low-floor light rail tram used extensively on the Manchester Metrolink network in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is a wide-body, long-range commercial airliner famous for its distinctive hump-backed upper deck and for revolutionizing mass international air travel as one of the first jumbo jets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cargo aircraft
ⓘ
transport aircraft ⓘ wide-body aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory | specialized transport ⓘ |
| aircraftConfiguration | twin-engine jet ⓘ |
| aircraftFamily |
Airbus A300-600ST
ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus A300
|
| basedOn | Airbus A300 ⓘ |
| cargoDoorLocation | forward upper fuselage ⓘ |
| cargoHoldVolume | 1400 m3 ⓘ |
| cargoLoadingMethod | nose-mounted cargo door ⓘ |
| cockpitLocation | lowered cockpit ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
European Union
ⓘ
France ⓘ |
| crew | 3 ⓘ |
| cruiseSpeed | Mach 0.7 ⓘ |
| designFeature |
enlarged upper fuselage
ⓘ
pressurized cargo hold ⓘ reinforced structure for heavy loads ⓘ |
| engineModel | General Electric CF6 ⓘ |
| engineType | turbofan ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1994-09-13 ⓘ |
| fuselageShape |
bulbous
ⓘ
whale-shaped ⓘ |
| height | 17.25 m ⓘ |
| ICAOTypeDesignator | A3ST ⓘ |
| introduced | 1995 ⓘ |
| landingGear | tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| length | 56.16 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Airbus ⓘ |
| maximumPayload | 47000 kg ⓘ |
| maximumTakeoffWeight | 155000 kg ⓘ |
| namedAfter | beluga whale ⓘ |
| nickname | Beluga ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | 5 ⓘ |
| operator | Airbus ⓘ |
| primaryMission |
transport Airbus aircraft sections
ⓘ
transport wings and fuselage sections ⓘ |
| primaryUser | Airbus Transport International ⓘ |
| rangeWithMaxPayload | 1660 nautical miles ⓘ |
| reasonForLoweredCockpit | to allow unobstructed cargo loading ⓘ |
| role |
aerospace component transport
ⓘ
outsize cargo transport ⓘ |
| status | in service ⓘ |
| successor |
Airbus BelugaXL
ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus Beluga
|
| tailConfiguration | T-tail ⓘ |
| typicalCruiseAltitude | 35000 ft ⓘ |
| wingOrigin | Airbus A300-600 wing ⓘ |
| wingspan | 44.84 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: Airbus Beluga Description of subject: The Airbus Beluga is a large, whale-shaped cargo aircraft designed for transporting oversized aerospace components and other outsize freight.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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