Armstrong Siddeley Tiger (radial engine)
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The Armstrong Siddeley Tiger is a British air-cooled radial aircraft engine developed in the 1930s and used to power various military and civil airplanes of the era.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Armstrong Siddeley Tiger (radial engine) canonical | 1 |
| Armstrong Siddeley air-cooled radials | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10188342 — 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: Armstrong Siddeley Tiger (radial engine) Context triple: [Armstrong Siddeley, notableProduct, Armstrong Siddeley Tiger (radial engine)]
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A.
Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar (radial engine)
The Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar was a British air-cooled radial aircraft engine widely used in military and civil aircraft during the interwar period.
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B.
Siddeley Puma engine
The Siddeley Puma engine was a British six-cylinder, water-cooled inline aircraft engine widely used in World War I-era military aircraft.
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C.
Bristol Centaurus radial engine
The Bristol Centaurus radial engine was a powerful British air-cooled sleeve-valve aircraft engine used in late World War II and early postwar high-performance aircraft.
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D.
Bristol Hercules radial engine
The Bristol Hercules radial engine was a British air-cooled, sleeve-valve aircraft engine widely used in World War II bombers and other military aircraft for its reliability and high power output.
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E.
Bristol Pegasus radial engine
The Bristol Pegasus radial engine was a widely used British air-cooled aircraft engine of the interwar and World War II era, powering numerous bombers and transport aircraft.
- 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: Armstrong Siddeley Tiger (radial engine) Target entity description: The Armstrong Siddeley Tiger is a British air-cooled radial aircraft engine developed in the 1930s and used to power various military and civil airplanes of the era.
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A.
Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar (radial engine)
The Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar was a British air-cooled radial aircraft engine widely used in military and civil aircraft during the interwar period.
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B.
Siddeley Puma engine
The Siddeley Puma engine was a British six-cylinder, water-cooled inline aircraft engine widely used in World War I-era military aircraft.
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C.
Bristol Centaurus radial engine
The Bristol Centaurus radial engine was a powerful British air-cooled sleeve-valve aircraft engine used in late World War II and early postwar high-performance aircraft.
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D.
Bristol Hercules radial engine
The Bristol Hercules radial engine was a British air-cooled, sleeve-valve aircraft engine widely used in World War II bombers and other military aircraft for its reliability and high power output.
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E.
Bristol Pegasus radial engine
The Bristol Pegasus radial engine was a widely used British air-cooled aircraft engine of the interwar and World War II era, powering numerous bombers and transport aircraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aircraft engine
ⓘ
piston engine ⓘ |
| application |
Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta
ⓘ
Armstrong Whitworth Ensign ⓘ Armstrong Whitworth Whitley ⓘ Boulton Paul Overstrand ⓘ Boulton Paul Sidestrand ⓘ Short Empire (early examples / trials) ⓘ
linked to:
Short Empire flying boat
Short Scion Senior ⓘ |
| coolingMethod | air-cooled ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Britain
ⓘ
linked to:
United Kingdom
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| cycle | four-stroke ⓘ |
| cylinderConfiguration | two-row radial ⓘ |
| designer | Armstrong Siddeley engineering team ⓘ |
| developed | early 1930s ⓘ |
| displacement | approximately 27 litres ⓘ |
| engineConfiguration | radial ⓘ |
| era | 1930s ⓘ |
| fuelType | aviation gasoline ⓘ |
| ignition | dual ignition ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Armstrong Siddeley ⓘ |
| notableVariant |
Armstrong Siddeley Tiger VI
ⓘ
linked to:
Armstrong Siddeley Tiger
Armstrong Siddeley Tiger VIII ⓘ
linked to:
Armstrong Siddeley Tiger
Armstrong Siddeley Tiger XI ⓘ
linked to:
Armstrong Siddeley Tiger
|
| numberOfCylinders | 14 ⓘ |
| powerOutput |
around 800 hp
ⓘ
up to about 900 hp ⓘ |
| productionPeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| successor |
Armstrong Siddeley Deerhound
ⓘ
Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba ⓘ |
| supercharging | single-stage supercharger ⓘ |
| usedBy |
British civil airlines
ⓘ
Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| usedFor |
airliner
ⓘ
civil aircraft ⓘ medium bomber aircraft ⓘ military aircraft ⓘ transport aircraft ⓘ |
| usedInConflict |
Second World War
ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
|
| usedInRole |
bomber powerplant
ⓘ
mailplane powerplant ⓘ transport powerplant ⓘ |
| valveType | popet valve ⓘ |
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: Armstrong Siddeley Tiger (radial engine) Description of subject: The Armstrong Siddeley Tiger is a British air-cooled radial aircraft engine developed in the 1930s and used to power various military and civil airplanes of the era.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah (radial engine)
linked to: Armstrong Siddeley Tiger (radial engine)