Concorde (Air France)
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Concorde (Air France) is a retired French-British supersonic passenger airliner once operated by Air France, renowned for its ability to fly at over twice the speed of sound on transatlantic routes.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Concorde | 14 |
| Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde | 6 |
| Air France Concorde fleet | 1 |
| Aérospatiale–BAC Concorde | 1 |
| Concorde (Air France) canonical | 1 |
| Concorde G-BBDG | 1 |
| Concorde development team | 1 |
| Concorde prototype 001 | 1 |
| Concorde supersonic airliner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T328248 — 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: Concorde (Air France) Context triple: [Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, housesArtifact, Concorde (Air France)]
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A.
Airbus A300
The Airbus A300 is a wide-body twin-engine jet airliner introduced in the 1970s as Airbus’s first commercial aircraft and one of the world’s earliest twin-engine wide-bodies.
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B.
Airbus A310
The Airbus A310 is a twin-engine, wide-body jet airliner introduced in the early 1980s as a shorter, more efficient derivative of the Airbus A300 for medium- to long-haul routes.
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C.
Airbus A340
The Airbus A340 is a long-range, four-engine wide-body commercial airliner designed for intercontinental passenger flights.
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D.
Airbus A330
The Airbus A330 is a wide-body, twin-engine jet airliner designed for medium- to long-haul routes and widely used by airlines around the world.
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E.
Air France
Air France is the French flag carrier airline and one of Europe’s major international airlines, operating a global network of passenger and cargo services.
- 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: Concorde (Air France) Target entity description: Concorde (Air France) is a retired French-British supersonic passenger airliner once operated by Air France, renowned for its ability to fly at over twice the speed of sound on transatlantic routes.
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A.
Airbus A300
The Airbus A300 is a wide-body twin-engine jet airliner introduced in the 1970s as Airbus’s first commercial aircraft and one of the world’s earliest twin-engine wide-bodies.
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B.
Airbus A310
The Airbus A310 is a twin-engine, wide-body jet airliner introduced in the early 1980s as a shorter, more efficient derivative of the Airbus A300 for medium- to long-haul routes.
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C.
Airbus A340
The Airbus A340 is a long-range, four-engine wide-body commercial airliner designed for intercontinental passenger flights.
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D.
Airbus A330
The Airbus A330 is a wide-body, twin-engine jet airliner designed for medium- to long-haul routes and widely used by airlines around the world.
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E.
Air France
Air France is the French flag carrier airline and one of Europe’s major international airlines, operating a global network of passenger and cargo services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
retired aircraft
ⓘ
supersonic passenger airliner ⓘ |
| aircraftFamily |
Concorde (Air France)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde
|
| aircraftRole | long-range supersonic transport ⓘ |
| airframeMaterial | aluminium alloy ⓘ |
| airlineHub |
Charles de Gaulle Airport
ⓘ
surface form:
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
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| airlineLivery | Air France livery ⓘ |
| allianceMembershipDuringService |
SkyTeam
ⓘ
surface form:
SkyTeam (via Air France)
|
| cabinClassConfiguration | all-first-class layout ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
France
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designCruiseMachNumber | Mach 2 ⓘ |
| displayLocation |
Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace
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surface form:
Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget (one preserved airframe)
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (one preserved airframe) ⓘ |
| engineType | Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 ⓘ |
| finalCommercialFlightDate | 2003-05-31 ⓘ |
| finalCommercialFlightRoute | New York–Paris ⓘ |
| firstCommercialServiceDate | 1976-01-21 ⓘ |
| fuelType | jet fuel (kerosene) ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | icon of 20th-century commercial aviation ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Aérospatiale
ⓘ
British Aircraft Corporation ⓘ |
| maximumCruiseSpeed | Mach 2.04 ⓘ |
| maximumPassengerCapacity | about 100 passengers ⓘ |
| noiseCharacteristic | high takeoff and landing noise levels ⓘ |
| notableAccident | Air France Flight 4590 crash on 2000-07-25 ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | cut transatlantic travel time by more than half ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
afterburning engines
ⓘ
delta wing design ⓘ droop nose ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 4 ⓘ |
| operator | Air France ⓘ |
| primaryBaseDuringService |
Charles de Gaulle Airport
ⓘ
surface form:
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
|
| primaryRoute |
New York–Paris
ⓘ
surface form:
Paris–New York route
Paris–Washington route ⓘ |
| propulsionType | turbojet ⓘ |
| reasonForRetirement |
declining passenger demand
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economic unviability ⓘ post-9/11 downturn in air travel ⓘ rising maintenance costs ⓘ |
| regulatoryEnvironment | restricted to over-ocean supersonic flight ⓘ |
| retirementDate | 2003-05-31 ⓘ |
| safetyRecordImpact | Air France Flight 4590 accident contributed to eventual retirement ⓘ |
| serviceRegion |
occasional charter routes to other continents
ⓘ
transatlantic routes ⓘ |
| serviceType |
charter flights
ⓘ
scheduled passenger service ⓘ |
| typicalCruiseAltitude | 60000 feet ⓘ |
| typicalTransatlanticFlightTime | about 3.5 hours Paris–New York ⓘ |
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: Concorde (Air France) Description of subject: Concorde (Air France) is a retired French-British supersonic passenger airliner once operated by Air France, renowned for its ability to fly at over twice the speed of sound on transatlantic routes.
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Concorde
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Concorde supersonic airliner
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Aérospatiale–BAC Concorde
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Concorde
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Concorde
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British Aircraft Corporation
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Concorde
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British Aircraft Corporation
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Concorde
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Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde
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Concorde