Bockscar
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Bockscar was the U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the "Fat Man" nuclear weapon on Nagasaki during World War II.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bockscar canonical | 16 |
| B-29 Bockscar | 1 |
| B-29 Superfortress Bockscar (usual assigned aircraft) | 1 |
| Boeing B-29 Bockscar | 1 |
| Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Bockscar" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T140564 — 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: Bockscar Context triple: [atomic bombing of Nagasaki, usedAircraft, Bockscar]
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A.
Enola Gay
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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B.
B-29 Superfortress
The B-29 Superfortress was a long-range, four-engine heavy bomber developed by the United States during World War II, notable for its advanced technology and its role in strategic bombing campaigns over Japan.
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C.
Wright J-5C Whirlwind
The Wright J-5C Whirlwind is a nine-cylinder, air-cooled radial aircraft engine renowned for its reliability and use in pioneering long-distance flights of the late 1920s.
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D.
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.
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E.
Heinkel He 177
The Heinkel He 177 was a German long-range heavy bomber of World War II, notable for its troubled development, engine reliability issues, and limited operational success.
- 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: Bockscar Target entity description: Bockscar was the U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the "Fat Man" nuclear weapon on Nagasaki during World War II.
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A.
Enola Gay
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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B.
B-29 Superfortress
The B-29 Superfortress was a long-range, four-engine heavy bomber developed by the United States during World War II, notable for its advanced technology and its role in strategic bombing campaigns over Japan.
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C.
Wright J-5C Whirlwind
The Wright J-5C Whirlwind is a nine-cylinder, air-cooled radial aircraft engine renowned for its reliability and use in pioneering long-distance flights of the late 1920s.
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D.
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.
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E.
Heinkel He 177
The Heinkel He 177 was a German long-range heavy bomber of World War II, notable for its troubled development, engine reliability issues, and limited operational success.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Bockscar Description of subject: Bockscar was the U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the "Fat Man" nuclear weapon on Nagasaki during World War II.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bockscar
linked to: Bockscar
subject linked to:
aircraft commander Charles W. Sweeney
linked to: Bockscar
subject linked to:
Captain Frederick C. Bock
linked to: Bockscar
subject linked to:
Captain Frederick C. Bock
subject linked to:
Wendover Army Air Field, Utah