Bolo
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Bolo is the nickname of the Douglas B-18, an American twin-engine bomber aircraft used primarily in the late 1930s and early World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bolo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8691740 — 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: Bolo Context triple: [Douglas B-18 Bolo, nickname, Bolo]
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A.
Baol
Baol was a precolonial Wolof kingdom in what is now Senegal, known for succeeding the Wolof Empire as a regional political and economic power.
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B.
Bol
Bol is a coastal town on the southern coast of the Croatian island of Brač, known for its famous Zlatni Rat beach and tourism.
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C.
Boso
Boso is the fictional dialogue partner and student of Anselm of Canterbury in the theological treatise "Cur Deus Homo," representing the questioning layperson in discussions about the Incarnation and Atonement.
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D.
Buota
Buota is a village located on Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati.
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E.
Baflo
Baflo is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen, known for its historic church and rural character.
- 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: Bolo Target entity description: Bolo is the nickname of the Douglas B-18, an American twin-engine bomber aircraft used primarily in the late 1930s and early World War II.
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A.
Baol
Baol was a precolonial Wolof kingdom in what is now Senegal, known for succeeding the Wolof Empire as a regional political and economic power.
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B.
Bol
Bol is a coastal town on the southern coast of the Croatian island of Brač, known for its famous Zlatni Rat beach and tourism.
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C.
Boso
Boso is the fictional dialogue partner and student of Anselm of Canterbury in the theological treatise "Cur Deus Homo," representing the questioning layperson in discussions about the Incarnation and Atonement.
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D.
Buota
Buota is a village located on Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati.
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E.
Baflo
Baflo is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen, known for its historic church and rural character.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Douglas B-18
ⓘ
military aircraft ⓘ twin-engine bomber ⓘ |
| aircraftConfiguration | twin-engine monoplane ⓘ |
| aircraftRole | bomber ⓘ |
| aircraftType | land-based bomber ⓘ |
| airForceDesignation |
B-18
ⓘ
linked to:
Douglas B-18 Bolo
B-18A ⓘ
linked to:
Douglas B-18 Bolo
|
| airframeBasis |
Douglas DC-2 airframe
ⓘ
linked to:
Douglas DC-2
|
| airframeOrigin | based on a civilian airliner design ⓘ |
| alsoUsedBy |
Brazilian Air Force
ⓘ
Royal Australian Air Force ⓘ Royal Canadian Air Force ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crewSize | 6 ⓘ |
| designedBy | Douglas Aircraft engineering team ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Douglas DC-2 ⓘ |
| engineType | piston engine ⓘ |
| era |
early World War II bomber
ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1935 ⓘ |
| introduced | 1936 ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Douglas Aircraft Company ⓘ |
| nicknamed |
B-18 Bolo
ⓘ
linked to:
B-18C
|
| numberOfEngines | 2 ⓘ |
| operatedInTheater |
Caribbean
ⓘ
North American coastal waters ⓘ Pacific ⓘ |
| primaryUser | United States Army Air Corps ⓘ |
| relativePerformance | obsolescent early in World War II ⓘ |
| serviceEntryContext | pre-World War II U.S. bomber force ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successor |
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
ⓘ
Consolidated B-24 Liberator ⓘ |
| usedAs |
anti-submarine warfare aircraft
ⓘ
level bomber ⓘ patrol aircraft ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Army Air Corps ⓘ |
| usedFor |
anti-submarine patrols
ⓘ
coastal patrol ⓘ maritime patrol ⓘ training ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | World War II ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod |
early World War II
ⓘ
late 1930s ⓘ |
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: Bolo Description of subject: Bolo is the nickname of the Douglas B-18, an American twin-engine bomber aircraft used primarily in the late 1930s and early World War II.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.