A300-600ST
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The A300-600ST, commonly known as the Airbus Beluga, is a large-capacity cargo aircraft specially designed to transport oversized aerospace components and other bulky freight.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A300-600ST canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8630897 — 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: A300-600ST Context triple: [Airbus Beluga, alsoKnownAs, A300-600ST]
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A.
Airbus A300
The Airbus A300 is a wide-body twin-engine jet airliner introduced in the 1970s as Airbus’s first commercial aircraft and one of the world’s earliest twin-engine wide-bodies.
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B.
Airbus A330
The Airbus A330 is a wide-body, twin-engine jet airliner designed for medium- to long-haul routes and widely used by airlines around the world.
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C.
Airbus A310
The Airbus A310 is a twin-engine, wide-body jet airliner introduced in the early 1980s as a shorter, more efficient derivative of the Airbus A300 for medium- to long-haul routes.
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D.
Airbus A340
The Airbus A340 is a long-range, four-engine wide-body commercial airliner designed for intercontinental passenger flights.
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E.
Airbus A330-200F
The Airbus A330-200F is a dedicated wide-body cargo aircraft variant of the A330 family, designed for medium- to long-haul freight operations.
- 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: A300-600ST Target entity description: The A300-600ST, commonly known as the Airbus Beluga, is a large-capacity cargo aircraft specially designed to transport oversized aerospace components and other bulky freight.
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A.
Airbus A300
The Airbus A300 is a wide-body twin-engine jet airliner introduced in the 1970s as Airbus’s first commercial aircraft and one of the world’s earliest twin-engine wide-bodies.
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B.
Airbus A330
The Airbus A330 is a wide-body, twin-engine jet airliner designed for medium- to long-haul routes and widely used by airlines around the world.
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C.
Airbus A310
The Airbus A310 is a twin-engine, wide-body jet airliner introduced in the early 1980s as a shorter, more efficient derivative of the Airbus A300 for medium- to long-haul routes.
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D.
Airbus A340
The Airbus A340 is a long-range, four-engine wide-body commercial airliner designed for intercontinental passenger flights.
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E.
Airbus A330-200F
The Airbus A330-200F is a dedicated wide-body cargo aircraft variant of the A330 family, designed for medium- to long-haul freight operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Airbus Beluga
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cargo aircraft ⓘ wide-body aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory | civil ⓘ |
| aircraftConfiguration | twin-engine jet ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Airbus Beluga
ⓘ
Beluga ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Airbus A300-600
ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus A300
|
| cargoAccess | large upward-swinging nose door ⓘ |
| cargoVolume | about 1400 m³ ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| crew | 2 ⓘ |
| cruiseSpeed | about 750 km/h ⓘ |
| designedFor |
transport of Airbus aircraft sections
ⓘ
transport of wings and fuselage sections ⓘ |
| engineModel |
General Electric CF6-80C2
ⓘ
linked to:
General Electric CF6
|
| engineType | turbofan ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1994-09-13 ⓘ |
| fuelType | Jet A-1 ⓘ |
| fuselageShape | bulbous upper fuselage ⓘ |
| fuselageType | enlarged upper fuselage ⓘ |
| height | 17.25 m ⓘ |
| icaoTypeDesignator | A3ST ⓘ |
| introduced | 1995 ⓘ |
| landingGear | tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| length | 56.16 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Airbus ⓘ |
| manufacturerDivision |
Airbus Transport
ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus Transport International
|
| maximumPayload | about 47 tonnes ⓘ |
| maximumTakeoffWeight | about 155000 kg ⓘ |
| nicknamedAfter | beluga whale ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | 5 ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 2 ⓘ |
| operator | Airbus Transport International ⓘ |
| pressurization | pressurized cargo hold ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
transport of bulky freight
ⓘ
transport of oversized aerospace components ⓘ |
| range | about 4632 km ⓘ |
| rangeWithMaxPayload | about 1660 km ⓘ |
| role | oversized cargo transport ⓘ |
| specialDesignFeature |
oversized cargo bay above main deck
ⓘ
separate lower cockpit section ⓘ |
| status | in service ⓘ |
| successor |
Airbus BelugaXL
ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus Beluga
|
| tailType | modified tail with enlarged vertical stabilizer ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | low-wing ⓘ |
| wingspan | 44.84 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: A300-600ST Description of subject: The A300-600ST, commonly known as the Airbus Beluga, is a large-capacity cargo aircraft specially designed to transport oversized aerospace components and other bulky freight.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Beluga