Bastan
E738982
Bastan is a family of turboprop aircraft engines developed by Turbomeca and used on several regional and military transport aircraft.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bastan canonical | 1 |
| Bastan IV | 1 |
| Bastan VI | 1 |
| Bastan VII | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8478641 — 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: Bastan Context triple: [Aérospatiale N 262, engineModelFamily, Bastan]
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A.
Bastam
Bastam is an ancient town in Iran renowned for its significant Islamic architectural and Sufi heritage, including monuments from the Seljuk and Ilkhanid periods.
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B.
Belsand
Belsand is a small town in the Sitamarhi district of the Indian state of Bihar, known primarily as a local administrative and market center for surrounding rural areas.
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C.
Bogar
Bogar is a revered Tamil Siddhar, alchemist, and mystic traditionally credited with esoteric yogic practices, medicinal formulations, and the crafting of sacred idols in South Indian spiritual lore.
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D.
Torbeshi
Torbeshi are a Slavic-speaking Muslim ethnic group primarily living in North Macedonia and neighboring Balkan regions.
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E.
Boghni
Boghni is a town and commune in northern Algeria’s Kabylie region, known for its Berber (Amazigh) cultural heritage and mountainous surroundings.
- 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: Bastan Target entity description: Bastan is a family of turboprop aircraft engines developed by Turbomeca and used on several regional and military transport aircraft.
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A.
Bastam
Bastam is an ancient town in Iran renowned for its significant Islamic architectural and Sufi heritage, including monuments from the Seljuk and Ilkhanid periods.
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B.
Belsand
Belsand is a small town in the Sitamarhi district of the Indian state of Bihar, known primarily as a local administrative and market center for surrounding rural areas.
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C.
Bogar
Bogar is a revered Tamil Siddhar, alchemist, and mystic traditionally credited with esoteric yogic practices, medicinal formulations, and the crafting of sacred idols in South Indian spiritual lore.
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D.
Torbeshi
Torbeshi are a Slavic-speaking Muslim ethnic group primarily living in North Macedonia and neighboring Balkan regions.
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E.
Boghni
Boghni is a town and commune in northern Algeria’s Kabylie region, known for its Berber (Amazigh) cultural heritage and mountainous surroundings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | turboprop aircraft engine family ⓘ |
| application |
STOL transport aircraft
ⓘ
short-haul regional airliners ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| developer | Turbomeca ⓘ |
| engineConfiguration | turboshaft driving propeller via reduction gearbox ⓘ |
| fuelType | aviation kerosene ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Bastan IV
ⓘ
linked to:
Bastan
Bastan VI ⓘ
linked to:
Bastan
Bastan VII ⓘ
linked to:
Bastan
Bastan XII ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Turbomeca ⓘ |
| marketedBy | Turbomeca ⓘ |
| propulsionType | turboprop ⓘ |
| usedBy |
French military transport prototypes
ⓘ
French-built regional aircraft ⓘ |
| usedInRole |
civil transport
ⓘ
experimental VTOL aircraft ⓘ military transport ⓘ utility aircraft ⓘ |
| usedOn |
Aérospatiale N 262
ⓘ
Breguet 941 ⓘ Breguet 941S ⓘ
linked to:
Breguet 941
Hurel-Dubois HD.321 ⓘ Hurel-Dubois HD.34 ⓘ Max Holste MH.260 Super Broussard ⓘ Nord 260 ⓘ Nord 262 ⓘ
linked to:
Aérospatiale N 262
Nord 500 Cadet ⓘ
linked to:
Nord 500 Fennec
Nord 500 Fennec ⓘ Nord 500 VTOL prototypes ⓘ military transport aircraft ⓘ regional transport aircraft ⓘ |
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: Bastan Description of subject: Bastan is a family of turboprop aircraft engines developed by Turbomeca and used on several regional and military transport aircraft.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bastan
linked to: Bastan
linked to: Bastan