YK40
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YK40 is the ICAO aircraft type designator for the Yakovlev Yak-40, a small three-engined regional jet airliner developed in the Soviet Union.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| YK40 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6204296 — 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: YK40 Context triple: [Yakovlev Yak-40, icaoAircraftTypeDesignator, YK40]
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A.
K4
K4 is an alternative name for Gasherbrum II, one of the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks located in the Karakoram range on the China–Pakistan border.
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B.
YKA
YKA is the IATA airport code for Kamloops Airport, a regional airport serving the city of Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada.
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C.
YKF
YKF is the IATA airport code for Region of Waterloo International Airport serving the Kitchener–Waterloo area in Ontario, Canada.
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D.
YAKT
YAKT is the time zone abbreviation for Yakutsk Time, used in parts of eastern Russia.
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E.
YCNK
YCNK is the ICAO airport code for Cessnock Airport, a regional airfield serving the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia.
- 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: YK40 Target entity description: YK40 is the ICAO aircraft type designator for the Yakovlev Yak-40, a small three-engined regional jet airliner developed in the Soviet Union.
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A.
K4
K4 is an alternative name for Gasherbrum II, one of the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks located in the Karakoram range on the China–Pakistan border.
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B.
YKA
YKA is the IATA airport code for Kamloops Airport, a regional airport serving the city of Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada.
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C.
YKF
YKF is the IATA airport code for Region of Waterloo International Airport serving the Kitchener–Waterloo area in Ontario, Canada.
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D.
YAKT
YAKT is the time zone abbreviation for Yakutsk Time, used in parts of eastern Russia.
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E.
YCNK
YCNK is the ICAO airport code for Cessnock Airport, a regional airfield serving the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ICAO aircraft type designator ⓘ |
| appliesToAircraftType | regional jet airliner ⓘ |
| appliesToCountryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| appliesToEngineConfiguration | three-engined aircraft ⓘ |
| appliesToEngineType | jet engine ⓘ |
| appliesToManufacturer |
Yakovlev
ⓘ
linked to:
Yakovlev Yak fighter family
|
| appliesToRole |
passenger transport
ⓘ
regional airliner ⓘ |
| assignedBy | International Civil Aviation Organization ⓘ |
| codeLength | 4 characters ⓘ |
| codeSystem | ICAO aircraft type designator system ⓘ |
| hasAircraftModelFullName | Yakovlev Yak-40 ⓘ |
| hasAircraftModelName |
Yak-40
ⓘ
linked to:
Yakovlev Yak-40
|
| hasPrefix | YK ⓘ |
| hasSuffix | 40 ⓘ |
| notationType | alphanumeric code ⓘ |
| refersTo | Yakovlev Yak-40 ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
IATA aircraft type codes
ⓘ
Yak-40 ⓘ
linked to:
Yakovlev Yak-40
|
| standardizedIn | ICAO Doc 8643 ⓘ |
| usedBy |
air navigation service providers
ⓘ
airlines ⓘ aviation authorities ⓘ |
| usedFor |
air traffic services identification
ⓘ
aircraft type classification ⓘ flight planning ⓘ |
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: YK40 Description of subject: YK40 is the ICAO aircraft type designator for the Yakovlev Yak-40, a small three-engined regional jet airliner developed in the Soviet Union.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.