Enola Gay
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Enola Gay is the U.S. B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Enola Gay canonical | 32 |
| B-29 Superfortress | 1 |
| Enola Gay Hiroshima mission | 1 |
| Enola Gay Tibbets | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T53765 — 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: Enola Gay Context triple: [atomic bombing of Hiroshima, aircraft, Enola Gay]
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Heinkel He 111
The Heinkel He 111 was a German twin‑engine medium bomber widely used by the Luftwaffe during the early years of World War II, especially in major air campaigns over Europe.
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B.
Junkers Ju 88
The Junkers Ju 88 was a highly versatile German World War II twin‑engine aircraft used extensively as a bomber, dive bomber, night fighter, and reconnaissance plane.
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C.
Dornier Do 17
The Dornier Do 17 was a German World War II twin‑engine light bomber, nicknamed the “Flying Pencil” for its slender fuselage and widely used by the Luftwaffe in the early war years.
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D.
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Spirit of St. Louis is Charles Lindbergh’s Pulitzer Prize–winning autobiographical account of his pioneering 1927 solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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V-1 flying bomb
The V-1 flying bomb was an early German cruise missile used in World War II, known as a pilotless "buzz bomb" deployed primarily against London and other Allied cities.
- 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: Enola Gay Target entity description: Enola Gay is the U.S. B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II.
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A.
Heinkel He 111
The Heinkel He 111 was a German twin‑engine medium bomber widely used by the Luftwaffe during the early years of World War II, especially in major air campaigns over Europe.
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B.
Junkers Ju 88
The Junkers Ju 88 was a highly versatile German World War II twin‑engine aircraft used extensively as a bomber, dive bomber, night fighter, and reconnaissance plane.
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C.
Dornier Do 17
The Dornier Do 17 was a German World War II twin‑engine light bomber, nicknamed the “Flying Pencil” for its slender fuselage and widely used by the Luftwaffe in the early war years.
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D.
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Spirit of St. Louis is Charles Lindbergh’s Pulitzer Prize–winning autobiographical account of his pioneering 1927 solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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E.
V-1 flying bomb
The V-1 flying bomb was an early German cruise missile used in World War II, known as a pilotless "buzz bomb" deployed primarily against London and other Allied cities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Enola Gay Description of subject: Enola Gay is the U.S. B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Enola Gay
linked to: Enola Gay
subject linked to:
navigator: Theodore Van Kirk
subject linked to:
bombardier: Thomas Ferebee
linked to: Enola Gay
subject linked to:
Wendover Army Air Field, Utah