MS990
E862139
MS990 is the EgyptAir Flight 990 passenger service that became widely known for its fatal crash into the Atlantic Ocean in 1999.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MS990 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10413232 — 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: MS990 Context triple: [EgyptAir Flight 990, flightNumber, MS990]
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A.
M90
M90 is a bright spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is one of the prominent members of the Virgo Cluster.
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B.
M90
M90 is a major motorway in Scotland that connects Perth to the Forth Road Bridge, forming a key part of the route between the Scottish Highlands and Edinburgh.
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C.
M998
The M998 is a basic cargo and troop carrier version of the U.S. military's High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) family.
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D.
M930
The M930 is a U.S. military 5-ton 6x6 dump truck variant designed for tactical cargo and construction support operations.
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E.
M98
M98 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, notable as one of the brighter members of the Virgo Cluster and a target in the Messier catalog.
- 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: MS990 Target entity description: MS990 is the EgyptAir Flight 990 passenger service that became widely known for its fatal crash into the Atlantic Ocean in 1999.
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A.
M90
M90 is a bright spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is one of the prominent members of the Virgo Cluster.
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B.
M90
M90 is a major motorway in Scotland that connects Perth to the Forth Road Bridge, forming a key part of the route between the Scottish Highlands and Edinburgh.
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C.
M998
The M998 is a basic cargo and troop carrier version of the U.S. military's High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) family.
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D.
M930
The M930 is a U.S. military 5-ton 6x6 dump truck variant designed for tactical cargo and construction support operations.
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E.
M98
M98 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, notable as one of the brighter members of the Virgo Cluster and a target in the Messier catalog.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
EgyptAir flight
ⓘ
aviation accident ⓘ commercial passenger flight ⓘ |
| aircraftManufacturer | Boeing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftModel | Boeing 767-300ER NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftName | Thutmosis III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftRegistration | SU-GAP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftType | Boeing 767-366ER NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| airline | EgyptAir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| arrivalCity | Cairo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| arrivalContinent | Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
1999 in aviation
ⓘ
Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 767 ⓘ Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States ⓘ EgyptAir accidents and incidents NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCrash | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator | Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crashSite | Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crashSiteRegion | off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| crew | 14 ⓘ |
| date | 1999-10-31 ⓘ |
| departureAirport | John F. Kennedy International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| departureCity | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| departureContinent | North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destination | Cairo International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destinationCountry | Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatalities | 217 ⓘ |
| flightNumber | 990 ⓘ |
| flightType | scheduled international passenger service ⓘ |
| IATAFlightNumber | MS990 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAOFlightNumber | MSR990 ⓘ |
| investigatedBy |
Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Transportation Safety Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| month | October ⓘ |
| notableConsequence | major international aviation safety investigation ⓘ |
| notableFor | fatal crash into the Atlantic Ocean in 1999 ⓘ |
| occupants | 217 ⓘ |
| operatorIATACode | MS ⓘ |
| operatorICAOCode | MSR NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | Los Angeles International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| partOf | EgyptAir route network ⓘ |
| passengers | 203 ⓘ |
| phaseOfFlightAtAccident | cruise ⓘ |
| stopover | John F. Kennedy International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| survivors | 0 ⓘ |
| timeOfCrashLocal | about 01:50 EST ⓘ |
| year | 1999 ⓘ |
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: MS990 Description of subject: MS990 is the EgyptAir Flight 990 passenger service that became widely known for its fatal crash into the Atlantic Ocean in 1999.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.