AP-3C Orion
E200000
The AP-3C Orion is a Royal Australian Air Force maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft, extensively used for long-range surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AP-3C Orion canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1782308 — 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: AP-3C Orion Context triple: [RAAF Base Edinburgh, hostsAircraftType, AP-3C Orion]
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A.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
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B.
Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module
The Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module is an Italian-built pressurized cargo module used by NASA to transport supplies, equipment, and experiments between Earth and the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle missions.
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C.
Cygnus spacecraft
The Cygnus spacecraft is an uncrewed commercial cargo vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station.
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D.
Orbital Test Vehicle
The Orbital Test Vehicle is an unmanned, reusable spaceplane developed for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force to conduct long-duration, classified orbital missions and technology demonstrations.
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E.
CP-140 Aurora
The CP-140 Aurora is a Canadian long-range maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft based on the Lockheed P-3 Orion airframe and used primarily for surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
- 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: AP-3C Orion Target entity description: The AP-3C Orion is a Royal Australian Air Force maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft, extensively used for long-range surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
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A.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
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B.
Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module
The Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module is an Italian-built pressurized cargo module used by NASA to transport supplies, equipment, and experiments between Earth and the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle missions.
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C.
Cygnus spacecraft
The Cygnus spacecraft is an uncrewed commercial cargo vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station.
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D.
Orbital Test Vehicle
The Orbital Test Vehicle is an unmanned, reusable spaceplane developed for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force to conduct long-duration, classified orbital missions and technology demonstrations.
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E.
CP-140 Aurora
The CP-140 Aurora is a Canadian long-range maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft based on the Lockheed P-3 Orion airframe and used primarily for surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anti-submarine warfare aircraft
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maritime patrol aircraft ⓘ military aircraft variant ⓘ |
| airframeOrigin |
Lockheed P-3C Orion
ⓘ
linked to:
Lockheed P-3 Orion
|
| armament |
anti-ship missiles
ⓘ
depth charges ⓘ sonobuoys ⓘ torpedoes ⓘ |
| avionicsUpgradeBy |
L-3 Communications
ⓘ
linked to:
Harris Corporation
Tenix Defence ⓘ |
| basedOn | Lockheed P-3 Orion ⓘ |
| capability |
electronic surveillance
ⓘ
long-range patrol ⓘ overland surveillance ⓘ signal intelligence collection ⓘ submarine detection ⓘ surface ship detection ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| crew | approximately 10 ⓘ |
| designedFor |
exclusive economic zone surveillance
ⓘ
maritime domain awareness ⓘ |
| engineType | turboprop ⓘ |
| manufacturerOfAirframe |
Lockheed
ⓘ
linked to:
Lockheed Aircraft Company
|
| modernizationOf | RAAF P-3C Orion fleet ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 4 ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Australian Air Force ⓘ |
| primaryBase | RAAF Base Edinburgh ⓘ |
| primaryMission |
anti-submarine warfare patrols
ⓘ
maritime surveillance ⓘ |
| range | long-range ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
MQ-4C Triton
ⓘ
P-8A Poseidon ⓘ
linked to:
Boeing P-8 Poseidon
|
| role |
anti-submarine warfare
ⓘ
long-range surveillance ⓘ maritime patrol ⓘ overland intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance ⓘ reconnaissance ⓘ search and rescue support ⓘ |
| serviceBranch |
Royal Australian Air Force No. 92 Wing
ⓘ
linked to:
No. 92 Wing RAAF
|
| serviceEntry | early 2000s ⓘ |
| status | being phased out of RAAF service ⓘ |
| usedBy | Australia ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Middle East operations
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Operation Resolute ⓘ border protection operations ⓘ humanitarian assistance missions ⓘ search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 ⓘ |
| user |
No. 10 Squadron RAAF
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No. 11 Squadron RAAF ⓘ |
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: AP-3C Orion Description of subject: The AP-3C Orion is a Royal Australian Air Force maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft, extensively used for long-range surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.