Pilatus PC-21
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The Pilatus PC-21 is a Swiss-made, next-generation turboprop military trainer aircraft designed to provide jet-like performance and advanced training capabilities for fighter pilots.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pilatus PC-21 canonical | 18 |
| Pilatus PC-9 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T106245 — 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: Pilatus PC-21 Context triple: [French Air Force, usesAircraft, Pilatus PC-21]
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A.
Embraer 190
The Embraer 190 is a Brazilian-made narrow-body regional jet airliner designed for short- to medium-haul routes, widely used by airlines around the world.
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B.
Bombardier M5000
The Bombardier M5000 is a modern, low-floor light rail tram used extensively on the Manchester Metrolink network in the United Kingdom.
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C.
Dassault Rafale
The Dassault Rafale is a French twin-engine, multirole fighter aircraft designed for air superiority, ground attack, reconnaissance, and nuclear deterrence missions.
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D.
Ryan NYP monoplane
The Ryan NYP monoplane was the custom-built, single-engine aircraft famously flown by Charles Lindbergh on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927.
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E.
F-35B Lightning II
The F-35B Lightning II is a fifth-generation, stealth, short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) multirole fighter jet used by several air arms, including the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.
- 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: Pilatus PC-21 Target entity description: The Pilatus PC-21 is a Swiss-made, next-generation turboprop military trainer aircraft designed to provide jet-like performance and advanced training capabilities for fighter pilots.
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A.
Embraer 190
The Embraer 190 is a Brazilian-made narrow-body regional jet airliner designed for short- to medium-haul routes, widely used by airlines around the world.
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B.
Bombardier M5000
The Bombardier M5000 is a modern, low-floor light rail tram used extensively on the Manchester Metrolink network in the United Kingdom.
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C.
Dassault Rafale
The Dassault Rafale is a French twin-engine, multirole fighter aircraft designed for air superiority, ground attack, reconnaissance, and nuclear deterrence missions.
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D.
Ryan NYP monoplane
The Ryan NYP monoplane was the custom-built, single-engine aircraft famously flown by Charles Lindbergh on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927.
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E.
F-35B Lightning II
The F-35B Lightning II is a fifth-generation, stealth, short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) multirole fighter jet used by several air arms, including the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military trainer aircraft
ⓘ
single-engine aircraft ⓘ turboprop aircraft ⓘ |
| avionics |
Hands On Throttle And Stick
ⓘ
Head-Up Display ⓘ glass cockpit ⓘ |
| cockpitConfiguration | tandem ⓘ |
| configuration | low-wing monoplane ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Switzerland ⓘ |
| crew | 2 ⓘ |
| cruiseSpeed | 600 km/h ⓘ |
| designedBy | Pilatus Aircraft engineering team ⓘ |
| designedFor | fighter pilot training ⓘ |
| engineType | turboprop ⓘ |
| feature |
embedded training system
ⓘ
pressurized cockpit ⓘ simulated radar and weapons systems ⓘ zero-zero ejection seats ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 2002-07-01 ⓘ |
| gLimits |
+8
ⓘ
-4 ⓘ |
| height | 3.74 m ⓘ |
| introduced | 2008 ⓘ |
| landingGear | retractable tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| length | 11.23 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Pilatus Aircraft ⓘ |
| marketedAs | jet-like performance turboprop trainer ⓘ |
| maxSpeed | 685 km/h ⓘ |
| maxTakeoffWeight | 4700 kg ⓘ |
| powerplant | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68B ⓘ |
| primaryUser |
French Air and Space Force
ⓘ
linked to:
French Air Force
Qatar Emiri Air Force ⓘ Republic of Singapore Air Force ⓘ Royal Australian Air Force ⓘ Royal Saudi Air Force ⓘ Swiss Air Force ⓘ |
| propeller | five-bladed Hartzell propeller ⓘ |
| range | 1333 km ⓘ |
| role |
advanced trainer
ⓘ
lead-in fighter trainer ⓘ |
| serviceCeiling | 38000 ft ⓘ |
| status | in service ⓘ |
| successorTo |
Pilatus PC-7
ⓘ
Pilatus PC-9 ⓘ
linked to:
Pilatus PC-21
|
| trainingRole |
advanced flight training
ⓘ
basic flight training ⓘ tactical training ⓘ weapons training ⓘ |
| wingspan | 9.11 m ⓘ |
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: Pilatus PC-21 Description of subject: The Pilatus PC-21 is a Swiss-made, next-generation turboprop military trainer aircraft designed to provide jet-like performance and advanced training capabilities for fighter pilots.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.