Supermarine Stranraer
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The Supermarine Stranraer was a British twin-engine biplane flying boat used primarily for maritime patrol and reconnaissance duties in the late 1930s and early World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Supermarine Stranraer canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4107201 — 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: Supermarine Stranraer Context triple: [Supermarine Southampton, developedInto, Supermarine Stranraer]
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A.
Supermarine Southampton
Supermarine Southampton was a British twin-engine biplane flying boat of the 1920s, designed for maritime reconnaissance and patrol duties.
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B.
Supermarine Swift
The Supermarine Swift was a British single-seat jet fighter and reconnaissance aircraft of the early Cold War era, developed for the Royal Air Force as one of its first swept-wing jet designs.
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C.
Supermarine Attacker
The Supermarine Attacker was a British single-seat naval jet fighter of the early post–World War II era, notable as one of the Royal Navy’s first operational carrier-based jet aircraft.
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D.
Supermarine S.5
The Supermarine S.5 was a British racing seaplane of the 1920s, designed by R.J. Mitchell for the Schneider Trophy and serving as an important precursor to the famous Spitfire fighter.
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E.
Supermarine S.4
The Supermarine S.4 was a pioneering 1920s British racing seaplane designed by R.J. Mitchell that helped lay the technological groundwork for later aircraft like the Supermarine Spitfire.
- 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: Supermarine Stranraer Target entity description: The Supermarine Stranraer was a British twin-engine biplane flying boat used primarily for maritime patrol and reconnaissance duties in the late 1930s and early World War II.
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A.
Supermarine Southampton
Supermarine Southampton was a British twin-engine biplane flying boat of the 1920s, designed for maritime reconnaissance and patrol duties.
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B.
Supermarine Swift
The Supermarine Swift was a British single-seat jet fighter and reconnaissance aircraft of the early Cold War era, developed for the Royal Air Force as one of its first swept-wing jet designs.
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C.
Supermarine Attacker
The Supermarine Attacker was a British single-seat naval jet fighter of the early post–World War II era, notable as one of the Royal Navy’s first operational carrier-based jet aircraft.
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D.
Supermarine S.5
The Supermarine S.5 was a British racing seaplane of the 1920s, designed by R.J. Mitchell for the Schneider Trophy and serving as an important precursor to the famous Spitfire fighter.
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E.
Supermarine S.4
The Supermarine S.4 was a pioneering 1920s British racing seaplane designed by R.J. Mitchell that helped lay the technological groundwork for later aircraft like the Supermarine Spitfire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flying boat
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military aircraft ⓘ patrol bomber ⓘ |
| aircraftType | biplane ⓘ |
| airframeMaterial | metal hull with fabric-covered wings ⓘ |
| armament |
.303 in machine guns
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bombs ⓘ depth charges ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crew |
6
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7 ⓘ |
| designer | R. J. Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engineConfiguration | twin-engine ⓘ |
| engineCount | 2 ⓘ |
| engineType | Bristol Pegasus X NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
early World War II
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interwar period ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1934 ⓘ |
| hullType | boat hull ⓘ |
| introduced | 1937 ⓘ |
| landingGear | water landing only ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Supermarine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 165 mph ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
long-range maritime capability
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open gun positions ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | about 40 ⓘ |
| operationalUse |
North Atlantic patrols
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coastal reconnaissance ⓘ convoy escort ⓘ |
| operator |
No. 228 Squadron RAF
NERFINISHED
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No. 240 Squadron RAF NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 5 Squadron RCAF NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 9 Squadron RCAF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| powerplant | 2 × Bristol Pegasus radial engines ⓘ |
| primaryUser |
Royal Air Force
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Royal Canadian Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionStatus | out of production ⓘ |
| propulsion | piston engine ⓘ |
| range | about 1,000 miles ⓘ |
| retired | 1946 ⓘ |
| role |
anti-submarine warfare aircraft
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maritime patrol aircraft ⓘ reconnaissance aircraft ⓘ |
| serviceCeiling | about 17,000 ft ⓘ |
| serviceEntryContext | late 1930s ⓘ |
| successor | Short Sunderland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | conventional tail ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | World War II ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | biplane ⓘ |
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: Supermarine Stranraer Description of subject: The Supermarine Stranraer was a British twin-engine biplane flying boat used primarily for maritime patrol and reconnaissance duties in the late 1930s and early World War II.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.