Alfa Romeo 128 radial engine
E135055
The Alfa Romeo 128 radial engine was an Italian air-cooled aircraft engine used in World War II-era military aircraft.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alfa Romeo 128 radial engine canonical | 1 |
| Alfa Romeo aircraft engines | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1175508 — 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: Alfa Romeo 128 radial engine Context triple: [Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 Marsupiale, powerplant, Alfa Romeo 128 radial engine]
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A.
Fiat A.74 R1C.38 radial engine
The Fiat A.74 R1C.38 was an Italian air-cooled radial aircraft engine of the late 1930s widely used to power frontline Regia Aeronautica fighters in the early years of World War II.
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B.
Mitsubishi Kinsei radial engine
The Mitsubishi Kinsei was a Japanese air-cooled radial aircraft engine widely used in World War II combat aircraft.
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C.
BMW 801 radial engine
The BMW 801 radial engine was a powerful German World War II air-cooled aircraft engine widely used in Luftwaffe fighters and bombers, noted for its reliability and advanced engineering.
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D.
Daimler-Benz DB 601
The Daimler-Benz DB 601 was a German inverted V-12, liquid-cooled aircraft engine widely used in Luftwaffe fighters and bombers during World War II.
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E.
Nakajima Sakae radial engine
The Nakajima Sakae radial engine was a widely used Japanese air-cooled aircraft engine of World War II, best known for powering frontline Imperial Japanese Navy and Army fighters and bombers such as the Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
- 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: Alfa Romeo 128 radial engine Target entity description: The Alfa Romeo 128 radial engine was an Italian air-cooled aircraft engine used in World War II-era military aircraft.
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A.
Fiat A.74 R1C.38 radial engine
The Fiat A.74 R1C.38 was an Italian air-cooled radial aircraft engine of the late 1930s widely used to power frontline Regia Aeronautica fighters in the early years of World War II.
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B.
Mitsubishi Kinsei radial engine
The Mitsubishi Kinsei was a Japanese air-cooled radial aircraft engine widely used in World War II combat aircraft.
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C.
BMW 801 radial engine
The BMW 801 radial engine was a powerful German World War II air-cooled aircraft engine widely used in Luftwaffe fighters and bombers, noted for its reliability and advanced engineering.
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D.
Daimler-Benz DB 601
The Daimler-Benz DB 601 was a German inverted V-12, liquid-cooled aircraft engine widely used in Luftwaffe fighters and bombers during World War II.
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E.
Nakajima Sakae radial engine
The Nakajima Sakae radial engine was a widely used Japanese air-cooled aircraft engine of World War II, best known for powering frontline Imperial Japanese Navy and Army fighters and bombers such as the Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aircraft engine
ⓘ
piston engine ⓘ radial engine ⓘ |
| application | aircraft propulsion ⓘ |
| category |
Alfa Romeo aircraft engines
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linked to:
Alfa Romeo 128 radial engine
World War II aircraft piston engines of Italy ⓘ |
| coolingSystem | air-cooled ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Italy ⓘ |
| developedIn | 1930s ⓘ |
| engineConfiguration | radial ⓘ |
| era | World War II era ⓘ |
| fuelType | aviation gasoline ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Alfa Romeo ⓘ |
| operatingPrinciple | four-stroke cycle ⓘ |
| powerType | internal combustion ⓘ |
| usedBy | Regia Aeronautica ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Italian aircraft
ⓘ
military aircraft ⓘ military aviation ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | World War II ⓘ |
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: Alfa Romeo 128 radial engine Description of subject: The Alfa Romeo 128 radial engine was an Italian air-cooled aircraft engine used in World War II-era military aircraft.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alfa Romeo 128 radial engine