Tomcat
E505167
Tomcat is the NATO reporting name for the Grumman F-14, a twin-engine, variable-sweep wing supersonic fighter aircraft used primarily by the U.S. Navy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tomcat canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5239758 — 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: Tomcat Context triple: [Grumman F-14 Tomcat, natoReportingName, Tomcat]
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A.
Jetty
Jetty is a celebrated painting by contemporary artist Peter Doig, known for its atmospheric, dreamlike depiction of a solitary figure on a lakeside structure.
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B.
Jetty
Jetty is a lightweight, embeddable Java-based web server and servlet container widely used for hosting web applications and supporting modern web protocols.
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C.
Apache
The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American peoples of the Southwestern United States, known for their distinct languages, nomadic traditions, and resistance to colonial expansion.
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D.
IBM HTTP Server
IBM HTTP Server is a web server software from IBM, based on the Apache HTTP Server, designed to provide secure, scalable HTTP services for enterprise environments and IBM middleware.
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E.
JRun
JRun is a now-discontinued Java application server that was one of the early commercial J2EE servers, originally developed by Live Software and later acquired and marketed by Macromedia.
- 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: Tomcat Target entity description: Tomcat is the NATO reporting name for the Grumman F-14, a twin-engine, variable-sweep wing supersonic fighter aircraft used primarily by the U.S. Navy.
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A.
Jetty
Jetty is a lightweight, embeddable Java-based web server and servlet container widely used for hosting web applications and supporting modern web protocols.
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B.
Jetty
Jetty is a celebrated painting by contemporary artist Peter Doig, known for its atmospheric, dreamlike depiction of a solitary figure on a lakeside structure.
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C.
Apache
The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American peoples of the Southwestern United States, known for their distinct languages, nomadic traditions, and resistance to colonial expansion.
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D.
IBM HTTP Server
IBM HTTP Server is a web server software from IBM, based on the Apache HTTP Server, designed to provide secure, scalable HTTP services for enterprise environments and IBM middleware.
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E.
JRun
JRun is a now-discontinued Java application server that was one of the early commercial J2EE servers, originally developed by Live Software and later acquired and marketed by Macromedia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NATO reporting name
ⓘ
carrier-based fighter aircraft ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
supersonic fighter aircraft
ⓘ
twin-engine fighter aircraft ⓘ variable-sweep wing aircraft ⓘ |
| armament |
AIM-54 Phoenix missiles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
AIM-7 Sparrow missiles NERFINISHED ⓘ AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles NERFINISHED ⓘ M61 Vulcan cannon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
Iran–Iraq War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iraq War ⓘ Operation Desert Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) ⓘ
surface form:
War in Afghanistan
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crew | 2 ⓘ |
| crewPositions |
pilot
ⓘ
radar intercept officer ⓘ |
| designedFor |
aircraft carrier operations
ⓘ
long-range fleet air defense ⓘ |
| developedFor | United States Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engineType | twin turbofan engines ⓘ |
| enteredServiceWith | United States Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1970-12-21 ⓘ |
| introduced | 1974 ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Grumman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maxSpeed | over Mach 2 ⓘ |
| mediaAppearance |
film The Final Countdown
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
film Top Gun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | tomcat (male cat) ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
AN/AWG-9 radar system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
swing-wing design ⓘ two-seat tandem cockpit ⓘ |
| operator |
Imperial Iranian Air Force
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Navy ⓘ |
| primaryUser |
Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refersTo | Grumman F-14 Tomcat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFromUSN | 2006 ⓘ |
| role |
air superiority fighter
ⓘ
fleet defense interceptor ⓘ strike fighter ⓘ |
| status |
in service with Iran
ⓘ
retired from U.S. Navy service ⓘ |
| successor | F/A-18E/F Super Hornet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Navy ⓘ |
| wingType | variable-sweep wing ⓘ |
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: Tomcat Description of subject: Tomcat is the NATO reporting name for the Grumman F-14, a twin-engine, variable-sweep wing supersonic fighter aircraft used primarily by the U.S. Navy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.