Pegasus
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Pegasus is the NATO reporting name for the Boeing KC-46, a modern aerial refueling and strategic military transport aircraft.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pegasus canonical | 1 |
| flying horse | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1301123 — 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: Pegasus Context triple: [Boeing KC-46 Pegasus, NATOReportingName, Pegasus]
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A.
Argus
Argus is an early distributed programming language known for pioneering concepts in fault-tolerant, distributed systems and influencing modern object-oriented and concurrent programming.
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B.
Ceyx
Ceyx is a figure from Greek mythology, a king of Trachis known for his tragic love story with Alcyone that led to their transformation into halcyon birds.
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C.
Arion
Arion is a mythical, divinely-bred immortal horse in Greek mythology, famed for his incredible speed and often associated with heroes such as Heracles and Adrastus.
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D.
Minotaur
The Minotaur is a legendary creature from Greek mythology, depicted as a fearsome monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull that dwelled in the Labyrinth of Crete.
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E.
Argeiphontes
Argeiphontes is an epithet of the Greek god Hermes, highlighting his role as the slayer of the many-eyed giant Argus Panoptes.
- 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: Pegasus Target entity description: Pegasus is the NATO reporting name for the Boeing KC-46, a modern aerial refueling and strategic military transport aircraft.
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A.
Argus
Argus is an early distributed programming language known for pioneering concepts in fault-tolerant, distributed systems and influencing modern object-oriented and concurrent programming.
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B.
Ceyx
Ceyx is a figure from Greek mythology, a king of Trachis known for his tragic love story with Alcyone that led to their transformation into halcyon birds.
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C.
Arion
Arion is a mythical, divinely-bred immortal horse in Greek mythology, famed for his incredible speed and often associated with heroes such as Heracles and Adrastus.
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D.
Minotaur
The Minotaur is a legendary creature from Greek mythology, depicted as a fearsome monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull that dwelled in the Labyrinth of Crete.
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E.
Argeiphontes
Argeiphontes is an epithet of the Greek god Hermes, highlighting his role as the slayer of the many-eyed giant Argus Panoptes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NATO reporting name
ⓘ
aircraft designation ⓘ |
| aircraftGeneration | modern aerial refueling tanker ⓘ |
| aircraftType |
military transport aircraft
ⓘ
tanker aircraft ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
KC-46A Pegasus
ⓘ
linked to:
Boeing KC-46 Pegasus
|
| basedOn |
Boeing 767 airframe
ⓘ
linked to:
Boeing 767
|
| belongsToProgram | KC-X program ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designedFor |
in-flight refueling of military aircraft
ⓘ
strategic airlift of cargo ⓘ transport of military personnel ⓘ |
| developedFor |
USAF aerial refueling modernization
ⓘ
United States Department of Defense ⓘ
linked to:
Department of Defense
|
| engineType | turbofan ⓘ |
| enteredServiceWith | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| equippedWith |
aerial refueling boom
ⓘ
hose-and-drogue refueling system ⓘ remote vision system for refueling ⓘ |
| hasAvionics |
defensive systems suite
ⓘ
military communications systems ⓘ modern glass cockpit ⓘ |
| hasCapability |
cargo pallet transport
ⓘ
long-range operations ⓘ medical evacuation configuration ⓘ simultaneous refueling of multiple receiver aircraft ⓘ |
| hasConfiguration | twin-engine jet ⓘ |
| hasCrewRole |
boom operator
ⓘ
flight crew ⓘ |
| hasRole |
aerial refueling
ⓘ
strategic military transport ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Boeing ⓘ |
| operator |
Israel Air Force
ⓘ
linked to:
Israeli Air Force
Japan Air Self-Defense Force ⓘ Republic of Korea Air Force ⓘ United States Air Force ⓘ |
| primaryUser | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| refersTo |
Boeing KC-46
ⓘ
linked to:
Boeing KC-46 Pegasus
|
| roleInService | replacement for KC-135 Stratotanker ⓘ |
| usedBy |
NATO member states
ⓘ
North Atlantic Treaty Organization ⓘ
linked to:
NATO
|
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: Pegasus Description of subject: Pegasus is the NATO reporting name for the Boeing KC-46, a modern aerial refueling and strategic military transport aircraft.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pegasus