Sunbeam Tiger (Shelby-tuned version)
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The Sunbeam Tiger (Shelby-tuned version) is a high-performance Anglo-American sports roadster created by fitting a powerful Ford V8 into the compact Sunbeam Alpine chassis under Carroll Shelby’s engineering guidance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sunbeam Tiger (Shelby-tuned version) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8540214 — 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: Sunbeam Tiger (Shelby-tuned version) Context triple: [Carroll Shelby, notableWork, Sunbeam Tiger (Shelby-tuned version)]
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A.
Shelby Cobra
The Shelby Cobra is an iconic 1960s Anglo-American sports car that combined a lightweight British AC roadster body with powerful Ford V8 engines, becoming one of the most celebrated performance cars in automotive history.
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B.
Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba
The Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba is a British turboprop aircraft engine featuring a twin-engine, coaxial-rotor design used primarily in postwar naval aircraft.
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C.
Wolseley Viper
The Wolseley Viper was a high-compression, British-built version of the Hispano-Suiza V8 aero engine widely used in World War I fighter aircraft.
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D.
E-Type
E-Type is a Swedish Eurodance musician and producer known for his energetic 1990s hits and stadium-friendly anthems.
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E.
Fords Terror
Fords Terror is a dramatic, narrow fjord in Southeast Alaska known for its towering cliffs, powerful tidal currents, and remote, pristine wilderness scenery.
- 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: Sunbeam Tiger (Shelby-tuned version) Target entity description: The Sunbeam Tiger (Shelby-tuned version) is a high-performance Anglo-American sports roadster created by fitting a powerful Ford V8 into the compact Sunbeam Alpine chassis under Carroll Shelby’s engineering guidance.
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A.
Shelby Cobra
The Shelby Cobra is an iconic 1960s Anglo-American sports car that combined a lightweight British AC roadster body with powerful Ford V8 engines, becoming one of the most celebrated performance cars in automotive history.
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B.
Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba
The Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba is a British turboprop aircraft engine featuring a twin-engine, coaxial-rotor design used primarily in postwar naval aircraft.
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C.
Wolseley Viper
The Wolseley Viper was a high-compression, British-built version of the Hispano-Suiza V8 aero engine widely used in World War I fighter aircraft.
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D.
E-Type
E-Type is a Swedish Eurodance musician and producer known for his energetic 1990s hits and stadium-friendly anthems.
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E.
Fords Terror
Fords Terror is a dramatic, narrow fjord in Southeast Alaska known for its towering cliffs, powerful tidal currents, and remote, pristine wilderness scenery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglo-American car
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high-performance car ⓘ sports car ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Sunbeam Tiger
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linked to:
Sunbeam Alpine
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| basedOn | Sunbeam Alpine ⓘ |
| bodyStyle | 2-door roadster ⓘ |
| category | classic sports car ⓘ |
| chassis | Sunbeam Alpine chassis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designer | Carroll Shelby ⓘ |
| designerRole |
Carroll Shelby provided engineering guidance
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linked to:
Carroll Shelby
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| drivetrain | rear-wheel drive ⓘ |
| enginePlacement | front-mounted V8 engine ⓘ |
| engineType |
Ford V8 engine
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linked to:
Ford 302 V8 engine
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| influencedBy |
AC Cobra
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linked to:
Shelby Cobra
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| layout | front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Rootes Group ⓘ |
| marketedAs |
Sunbeam Tiger
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linked to:
Sunbeam Alpine
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| notableFeature |
Ford V8 engine in compact British chassis
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Shelby-engineered performance conversion ⓘ |
| originDescription | Anglo-American collaboration ⓘ |
| platform | Sunbeam Alpine platform ⓘ |
| purpose | high-performance version of Sunbeam Alpine ⓘ |
| vehicleClass | sports car ⓘ |
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: Sunbeam Tiger (Shelby-tuned version) Description of subject: The Sunbeam Tiger (Shelby-tuned version) is a high-performance Anglo-American sports roadster created by fitting a powerful Ford V8 into the compact Sunbeam Alpine chassis under Carroll Shelby’s engineering guidance.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.