F118
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The F118 is a non-afterburning turbofan jet engine developed by General Electric, used to power high-performance military aircraft such as the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and U-2S reconnaissance plane.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| F118 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7008848 — 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: F118 Context triple: [General Electric F118, natoDesignation, F118]
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A.
F117
The F117 is a high-bypass turbofan jet engine developed by Pratt & Whitney, widely used to power the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft.
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B.
H 111
H 111 is the catalogue number assigned to Hector Berlioz’s dramatic legend "La damnation de Faust."
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C.
F8
F8 is the IATA airline designator assigned to Flair Airlines, a Canadian ultra-low-cost carrier.
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D.
F82
F82 is the pennant number assigned to HMS Sikh, a British Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer that served during the Second World War.
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E.
Walter HWK 109-509
The Walter HWK 109-509 was a German World War II-era liquid-fueled rocket engine used to power high-speed interceptor aircraft.
- 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: F118 Target entity description: The F118 is a non-afterburning turbofan jet engine developed by General Electric, used to power high-performance military aircraft such as the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and U-2S reconnaissance plane.
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A.
F117
The F117 is a high-bypass turbofan jet engine developed by Pratt & Whitney, widely used to power the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft.
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B.
H 111
H 111 is the catalogue number assigned to Hector Berlioz’s dramatic legend "La damnation de Faust."
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C.
F8
F8 is the IATA airline designator assigned to Flair Airlines, a Canadian ultra-low-cost carrier.
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D.
F82
F82 is the pennant number assigned to HMS Sikh, a British Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer that served during the Second World War.
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E.
Walter HWK 109-509
The Walter HWK 109-509 was a German World War II-era liquid-fueled rocket engine used to power high-speed interceptor aircraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jet engine
ⓘ
turbofan engine ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | General Electric F118 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| afterburner | no ⓘ |
| applicationRole |
reconnaissance aircraft propulsion
ⓘ
strategic bomber propulsion ⓘ |
| bypassRatio | low-bypass ⓘ |
| compressorType | axial-flow ⓘ |
| configuration | two-spool ⓘ |
| controlSystem | FADEC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cooling | air-cooled turbine blades ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| derivedFrom | F110 core ⓘ |
| designedFor |
high reliability
ⓘ
high-altitude performance ⓘ low specific fuel consumption ⓘ |
| developer | General Electric Aviation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emphasisOn |
low infrared signature
ⓘ
low radar observability integration ⓘ |
| fuelType | jet fuel ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
full-authority digital engine control
ⓘ
modular construction ⓘ |
| hasType | non-afterburning turbofan ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
F118-GE-100
ⓘ
F118-GE-101 ⓘ F118-GE-110 ⓘ |
| introducedInDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| manufacturer | General Electric NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketSegment | military turbofan engines ⓘ |
| operatesOn | Brayton cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo | F110 ⓘ |
| status | in service ⓘ |
| thrustClass | approximately 17,000 lbf ⓘ |
| turbineType | axial-flow ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| usedFor |
high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft
ⓘ
military aviation ⓘ stealth bomber aircraft ⓘ |
| usedIn |
B-2 Spirit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
B-2 Spirit NERFINISHED ⓘ RQ-4 Global Hawk NERFINISHED ⓘ RQ-4 Global Hawk NERFINISHED ⓘ U-2S NERFINISHED ⓘ U-2S NERFINISHED ⓘ WB-57F (re-engined variants) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | post–Cold War operations by USAF platforms ⓘ |
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: F118 Description of subject: The F118 is a non-afterburning turbofan jet engine developed by General Electric, used to power high-performance military aircraft such as the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and U-2S reconnaissance plane.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.