Tupolev Tu-134 airliner
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The Tupolev Tu-134 airliner is a Soviet-era twin-engine jet used widely by Eastern Bloc airlines and militaries, known for its rugged design and extensive service from the 1960s onward.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tupolev Tu-134 | 8 |
| Tu-134 | 2 |
| Tu-134A | 2 |
| Tu-134B | 2 |
| Tu-134Sh | 2 |
| Tu-134UBL | 2 |
| Tu-134AK | 1 |
| Tupolev Tu-134 (transport/VIP variants) | 1 |
| Tupolev Tu-134 airliner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T473975 — 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: Tupolev Tu-134 airliner Context triple: [Andrei Tupolev, notableWork, Tupolev Tu-134 airliner]
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A.
Tupolev Tu-114 airliner
The Tupolev Tu-114 airliner is a Soviet long-range turboprop passenger aircraft, renowned for being one of the fastest and largest propeller-driven airliners ever built and for serving prestigious international routes during the Cold War era.
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B.
Tupolev Tu-104 jet airliner
The Tupolev Tu-104 was one of the world’s first successful jet airliners, developed in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and used extensively by Aeroflot for medium-range passenger flights.
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C.
Tupolev Tu-4 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-4 bomber is a Soviet long-range strategic bomber developed in the late 1940s as a reverse-engineered copy of the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
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D.
Tupolev Tu-2 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-2 bomber was a highly effective Soviet twin‑engine frontline bomber of World War II, known for its speed, payload capacity, and extensive use on the Eastern Front.
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E.
Tupolev Tu-16 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-16 bomber is a Soviet twin‑engine jet strategic bomber introduced in the 1950s, widely used for long-range bombing, maritime strike, and reconnaissance roles throughout the Cold War.
- 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: Tupolev Tu-134 airliner Target entity description: The Tupolev Tu-134 airliner is a Soviet-era twin-engine jet used widely by Eastern Bloc airlines and militaries, known for its rugged design and extensive service from the 1960s onward.
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A.
Tupolev Tu-114 airliner
The Tupolev Tu-114 airliner is a Soviet long-range turboprop passenger aircraft, renowned for being one of the fastest and largest propeller-driven airliners ever built and for serving prestigious international routes during the Cold War era.
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B.
Tupolev Tu-104 jet airliner
The Tupolev Tu-104 was one of the world’s first successful jet airliners, developed in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and used extensively by Aeroflot for medium-range passenger flights.
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C.
Tupolev Tu-4 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-4 bomber is a Soviet long-range strategic bomber developed in the late 1940s as a reverse-engineered copy of the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
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D.
Tupolev Tu-2 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-2 bomber was a highly effective Soviet twin‑engine frontline bomber of World War II, known for its speed, payload capacity, and extensive use on the Eastern Front.
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E.
Tupolev Tu-16 bomber
The Tupolev Tu-16 bomber is a Soviet twin‑engine jet strategic bomber introduced in the 1950s, widely used for long-range bombing, maritime strike, and reconnaissance roles throughout the Cold War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
narrow-body jet airliner
ⓘ
twin-engine jet aircraft ⓘ |
| basedOn | Tupolev Tu-124 ⓘ |
| configuration | low-wing monoplane ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crew | 3 ⓘ |
| cruiseSpeed | 850 km/h ⓘ |
| designedFor | short to medium-haul routes ⓘ |
| designEra | Cold War ⓘ |
| engineMounting | rear-fuselage mounted ⓘ |
| engineType | turbofan ⓘ |
| enteredServiceWith | Aeroflot ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1963-07-29 ⓘ |
| height | 9.02 m ⓘ |
| ICAOTypeDesignator | T134 ⓘ |
| introduced | 1967 ⓘ |
| length | 37.1 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Tupolev
ⓘ
surface form:
Tupolev Design Bureau
|
| maximumPassengerCapacity | 84 ⓘ |
| maximumTakeoffWeight | 47,600 kg ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
glass nose on early variants
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rear airstairs built into fuselage ⓘ rugged landing gear for rough airfields ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | over 850 ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 2 ⓘ |
| operationalRegion |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ Eastern Europe ⓘ Soviet Union domestic routes ⓘ |
| pressurizedCabin | yes ⓘ |
| primaryUser | Aeroflot ⓘ |
| productionPeriodEnd | 1989 ⓘ |
| productionPeriodStart | 1966 ⓘ |
| range | 3100 km ⓘ |
| role | short-haul passenger airliner ⓘ |
| safetyRecord | involved in multiple fatal accidents ⓘ |
| serviceCeiling | 12,100 m ⓘ |
| status |
largely retired from commercial service
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still used for military and government transport ⓘ |
| successor | Tupolev Tu-154 ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | T-tail ⓘ |
| typicalPassengerCapacity | 72 ⓘ |
| usedAs |
VIP transport
ⓘ
bomber crew trainer ⓘ cargo aircraft ⓘ navigation trainer ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Air Koryo
ⓘ
Balkan Bulgarian Airlines ⓘ Czech Airlines ⓘ
surface form:
CSA Czechoslovak Airlines
Cubana de Aviación ⓘ Eastern Bloc ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Bloc militaries
Interflug ⓘ LOT Polish Airlines ⓘ Malev Hungarian Airlines ⓘ Russian Air Force ⓘ Soviet Air Forces ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet Air Force
Tarom ⓘ Vietnam Airlines ⓘ Warsaw Pact airlines ⓘ |
| variant |
Tupolev Tu-134 airliner
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Tu-134A
Tupolev Tu-134 airliner self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Tu-134AK
Tupolev Tu-134 airliner self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Tu-134B
Tupolev Tu-134 airliner self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Tu-134Sh
Tupolev Tu-134 airliner self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Tu-134UBL
|
| wingspan | 29.0 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: Tupolev Tu-134 airliner Description of subject: The Tupolev Tu-134 airliner is a Soviet-era twin-engine jet used widely by Eastern Bloc airlines and militaries, known for its rugged design and extensive service from the 1960s onward.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-134
subject surface form:
Tupolev Tu-104
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-134
subject surface form:
Tupolev Tu-134
this entity surface form:
Tu-134A
subject surface form:
Tupolev Tu-134
this entity surface form:
Tu-134B
subject surface form:
Tupolev Tu-134
this entity surface form:
Tu-134UBL
subject surface form:
Tupolev Tu-134
this entity surface form:
Tu-134Sh
subject surface form:
Tupolev Tu-134
this entity surface form:
Tu-134AK
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-134 (transport/VIP variants)
this entity surface form:
Tu-134
this entity surface form:
Tu-134
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-134
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-134
subject surface form:
Malév Hungarian Airlines
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-134
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-134
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-134
this entity surface form:
Tupolev Tu-134
this entity surface form:
Tu-134A
this entity surface form:
Tu-134B
this entity surface form:
Tu-134UBL
this entity surface form:
Tu-134Sh