Junkers W 33 Bremen
E833987
The Junkers W 33 "Bremen" was a German single-engine transport aircraft famous for making one of the first successful east-to-west transatlantic flights in 1928.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Junkers W 33 | 2 |
| Junkers W 33 Bremen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9982677 — 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: Junkers W 33 Bremen Context triple: [Hermann Köhl, aircraftFlown, Junkers W 33 Bremen]
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A.
Junkers F 13
The Junkers F 13 was a pioneering all-metal, low-wing monoplane airliner introduced in 1919 and widely regarded as the world’s first modern passenger aircraft.
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B.
Junkers G 38
The Junkers G 38 was a large German four-engined transport aircraft of the late 1920s and early 1930s, notable for its distinctive thick wing that housed passenger cabins.
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C.
Junkers J 1
The Junkers J 1 was an experimental German all-metal monoplane of the 1910s that became one of the world’s first practical all-metal aircraft and a milestone in aviation engineering.
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D.
Blohm & Voss BV 40
The Blohm & Voss BV 40 was a German World War II experimental glider interceptor aircraft intended to provide a small, heavily armored, and hard-to-hit platform for attacking Allied bombers.
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E.
Blohm & Voss BV 141
The Blohm & Voss BV 141 was an experimental German World War II reconnaissance aircraft notable for its highly asymmetrical design.
- 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: Junkers W 33 Bremen Target entity description: The Junkers W 33 "Bremen" was a German single-engine transport aircraft famous for making one of the first successful east-to-west transatlantic flights in 1928.
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A.
Junkers F 13
The Junkers F 13 was a pioneering all-metal, low-wing monoplane airliner introduced in 1919 and widely regarded as the world’s first modern passenger aircraft.
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B.
Junkers G 38
The Junkers G 38 was a large German four-engined transport aircraft of the late 1920s and early 1930s, notable for its distinctive thick wing that housed passenger cabins.
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C.
Junkers J 1
The Junkers J 1 was an experimental German all-metal monoplane of the 1910s that became one of the world’s first practical all-metal aircraft and a milestone in aviation engineering.
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D.
Blohm & Voss BV 40
The Blohm & Voss BV 40 was a German World War II experimental glider interceptor aircraft intended to provide a small, heavily armored, and hard-to-hit platform for attacking Allied bombers.
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E.
Blohm & Voss BV 141
The Blohm & Voss BV 141 was an experimental German World War II reconnaissance aircraft notable for its highly asymmetrical design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Junkers W 33
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aircraft ⓘ single‑engine transport aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftFamily |
Junkers W 33/W 34 family
ⓘ
linked to:
Junkers W 33
|
| aircraftRole |
long‑distance record aircraft
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transport aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftType | landplane ⓘ |
| category |
1920s German aircraft
ⓘ
transatlantic flight aircraft ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial | all‑metal ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| crewSize | 3 ⓘ |
| displayLocation |
Bremen Airport
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ |
| engineConfiguration | single‑engine ⓘ |
| firstTransatlanticCrossingDate |
1928‑04‑12
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1928‑04‑13 ⓘ |
| firstTransatlanticCrossingFrom |
Baldonnel Aerodrome, Ireland
ⓘ
linked to:
Baldonnel Aerodrome
|
| firstTransatlanticCrossingTo | Greenly Island, Canada ⓘ |
| fuselageConstruction | corrugated duralumin ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | pioneering non‑stop east‑to‑west Atlantic crossing ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Junkers ⓘ |
| namedAfter | city of Bremen ⓘ |
| navigator | Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld ⓘ |
| notableFlightDirection | east‑to‑west ⓘ |
| notableFlightRoute | Europe to North America ⓘ |
| notableFlightYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| notableFor | one of the first successful east‑to‑west transatlantic flights ⓘ |
| operator |
Luft Hansa
ⓘ
linked to:
Lufthansa
|
| pilot |
Hermann Köhl
ⓘ
James C. Fitzmaurice ⓘ |
| powerplantType | piston engine ⓘ |
| preservationStatus | surviving airframe ⓘ |
| registration |
D‑1167
ⓘ
linked to:
D-1167
|
| transatlanticCrossing | successful ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | low‑wing monoplane ⓘ |
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: Junkers W 33 Bremen Description of subject: The Junkers W 33 "Bremen" was a German single-engine transport aircraft famous for making one of the first successful east-to-west transatlantic flights in 1928.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Junkers W 33 Bremen
linked to: Junkers W 33 Bremen