Apt
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Apt is the surname of Milburn G. Apt, a U.S. Air Force test pilot known for being the first person to exceed Mach 3.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apt canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10378794 — 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: Apt Context triple: [Milburn G. Apt, familyName, Apt]
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A.
Apt
Apt is a historic market town in southeastern France’s Vaucluse department, known for its candied fruit production and Provençal charm.
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B.
apt-get
apt-get is a command-line package management tool on Debian-based Linux systems that automates the retrieval, installation, upgrade, and removal of software packages.
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C.
APT-P
APT-P was the experimental tilting prototype of British Rail’s Advanced Passenger Train, built to test high-speed rail technology in the 1970s–80s.
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D.
AAPT
AAPT is a professional organization dedicated to advancing the teaching and learning of physics at all educational levels.
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E.
gslapt
gslapt is a graphical front-end to the slapt-get package management system, providing an easy-to-use interface for installing, updating, and removing software on Slackware-based distributions like VectorLinux.
- 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: Apt Target entity description: Apt is the surname of Milburn G. Apt, a U.S. Air Force test pilot known for being the first person to exceed Mach 3.
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A.
Apt
Apt is a historic market town in southeastern France’s Vaucluse department, known for its candied fruit production and Provençal charm.
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B.
apt-get
apt-get is a command-line package management tool on Debian-based Linux systems that automates the retrieval, installation, upgrade, and removal of software packages.
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C.
APT-P
APT-P was the experimental tilting prototype of British Rail’s Advanced Passenger Train, built to test high-speed rail technology in the 1970s–80s.
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D.
AAPT
AAPT is a professional organization dedicated to advancing the teaching and learning of physics at all educational levels.
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E.
gslapt
gslapt is a graphical front-end to the slapt-get package management system, providing an easy-to-use interface for installing, updating, and removing software on Slackware-based distributions like VectorLinux.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Apt ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aviation
ⓘ
flight testing ⓘ |
| givenName |
G.
ⓘ
Milburn ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Apt ⓘ |
| isSurnameOf | Milburn G. Apt ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| nameType | last name ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first person to exceed Mach 3 ⓘ |
| occupation | test pilot ⓘ |
| recordHeld | first human to exceed Mach 3 ⓘ |
| usedBy | Milburn G. Apt ⓘ |
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: Apt Description of subject: Apt is the surname of Milburn G. Apt, a U.S. Air Force test pilot known for being the first person to exceed Mach 3.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.