Beluga
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The Beluga is a large, bulbous-headed cargo aircraft developed by Airbus, known for transporting oversized aerospace components.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beluga canonical | 2 |
| BELUGA | 1 |
| Beluga whale | 1 |
| BelugaST | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1815058 — 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: Beluga Context triple: [Airbus Beluga, nickname, Beluga]
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A.
Caspian seal
The Caspian seal is a small, endangered earless seal species found exclusively in the landlocked Caspian Sea region.
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B.
Weddell seal
The Weddell seal is a large, deep-diving Antarctic seal species known for living year-round on sea ice and for its remarkable ability to vocalize underwater.
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C.
Otter
Otter is a friendly, good-natured river-dwelling animal character in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows," known for his devotion to his family and his easy camaraderie with the other riverbank creatures.
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D.
Ladoga ringed seal
The Ladoga ringed seal is a rare, freshwater subspecies of ringed seal found only in Russia’s Lake Ladoga and noted for its isolation and conservation concern.
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E.
minke whale
The minke whale is one of the smallest and most common baleen whales, known for its streamlined body, pointed snout, and widespread distribution in oceans worldwide.
- 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: Beluga Target entity description: The Beluga is a large, bulbous-headed cargo aircraft developed by Airbus, known for transporting oversized aerospace components.
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A.
Caspian seal
The Caspian seal is a small, endangered earless seal species found exclusively in the landlocked Caspian Sea region.
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B.
Weddell seal
The Weddell seal is a large, deep-diving Antarctic seal species known for living year-round on sea ice and for its remarkable ability to vocalize underwater.
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C.
Otter
Otter is a friendly, good-natured river-dwelling animal character in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows," known for his devotion to his family and his easy camaraderie with the other riverbank creatures.
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D.
Ladoga ringed seal
The Ladoga ringed seal is a rare, freshwater subspecies of ringed seal found only in Russia’s Lake Ladoga and noted for its isolation and conservation concern.
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E.
minke whale
The minke whale is one of the smallest and most common baleen whales, known for its streamlined body, pointed snout, and widespread distribution in oceans worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cargo aircraft
ⓘ
transport aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory | outsize cargo aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftConfiguration | twin-engine jet ⓘ |
| aircraftRole | specialized logistics support ⓘ |
| airframeDerivedFrom |
Airbus A300-600
ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus A300
|
| alsoKnownAs |
A300-600ST
ⓘ
BelugaST ⓘ
linked to:
Beluga
|
| basedOn | Airbus A300 ⓘ |
| cargoVolume | 1400 cubic metres ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| crew | 2 ⓘ |
| designedBy |
Airbus Industrie
ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus
|
| designedFor | intra-European transport ⓘ |
| engineModel | General Electric CF6 ⓘ |
| engineType | turbofan ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1995 ⓘ |
| firstFlightDate | 1994-09-13 ⓘ |
| fuselageType | high-volume enlarged upper fuselage ⓘ |
| hasDistinctiveFeature |
bulbous upper fuselage
ⓘ
large cargo hold ⓘ |
| ICAOTypeDesignator | A3ST ⓘ |
| landingGearType | tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| loadingMethod | front-fuselage cargo door ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Airbus ⓘ |
| maximumPayload | about 47 tonnes ⓘ |
| namedAfter | beluga whale ⓘ |
| notableCargo |
Airbus A320 family wings
ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus A320 family
Airbus A330 fuselage sections ⓘ International Space Station components ⓘ
linked to:
International Space Station
|
| numberBuilt | 5 ⓘ |
| operator | Airbus Transport International ⓘ |
| primaryRole |
transport of aerospace components
ⓘ
transport of oversized cargo ⓘ |
| primaryUser | Airbus ⓘ |
| productionEnd | late 1990s ⓘ |
| productionStart | early 1990s ⓘ |
| range | about 1660 km at max payload ⓘ |
| status | in service ⓘ |
| successor |
Airbus BelugaXL
ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus Beluga
|
| tailType |
auxiliary vertical endplates
ⓘ
enlarged vertical tail ⓘ |
| typicalCruiseSpeed | about 750 km/h ⓘ |
| usedFor |
transporting aircraft wings
ⓘ
transporting fuselage sections ⓘ transporting space hardware ⓘ |
| wingPlacement | low-wing ⓘ |
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: Beluga Description of subject: The Beluga is a large, bulbous-headed cargo aircraft developed by Airbus, known for transporting oversized aerospace components.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Beluga
linked to: Beluga