MD series airliners
E204417
The MD series airliners are a family of twin-engine commercial jet aircraft developed by McDonnell Douglas as successors to its DC-9 line, widely used for short- to medium-haul passenger service.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| MD series airliners canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1815416 — 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: MD series airliners Context triple: [McDonnell Douglas, notableSeries, MD series airliners]
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A.
Boeing 7x7 family
The Boeing 7x7 family is a series of jet airliners produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, encompassing its major commercial passenger aircraft models such as the 707, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, 777, and 787.
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B.
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar is a wide-body commercial airliner developed in the late 1960s and 1970s, known for its advanced technology, three-engine configuration, and role as a major competitor to the McDonnell Douglas DC-10.
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C.
Airbus A320 family
The Airbus A320 family is a widely used series of narrow-body, twin-engine jet airliners designed for short- to medium-haul commercial flights.
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D.
Boeing 737
The Boeing 737 is a widely used narrow-body commercial jet airliner known for being one of the best-selling passenger aircraft in aviation history.
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E.
Boeing 707
The Boeing 707 is a pioneering American jet airliner introduced in the late 1950s that helped usher in the modern era of commercial jet travel.
- 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: MD series airliners Target entity description: The MD series airliners are a family of twin-engine commercial jet aircraft developed by McDonnell Douglas as successors to its DC-9 line, widely used for short- to medium-haul passenger service.
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A.
Boeing 7x7 family
The Boeing 7x7 family is a series of jet airliners produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, encompassing its major commercial passenger aircraft models such as the 707, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, 777, and 787.
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B.
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar is a wide-body commercial airliner developed in the late 1960s and 1970s, known for its advanced technology, three-engine configuration, and role as a major competitor to the McDonnell Douglas DC-10.
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C.
Airbus A320 family
The Airbus A320 family is a widely used series of narrow-body, twin-engine jet airliners designed for short- to medium-haul commercial flights.
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D.
Boeing 737
The Boeing 737 is a widely used narrow-body commercial jet airliner known for being one of the best-selling passenger aircraft in aviation history.
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E.
Boeing 707
The Boeing 707 is a pioneering American jet airliner introduced in the late 1950s that helped usher in the modern era of commercial jet travel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: MD series airliners Description of subject: The MD series airliners are a family of twin-engine commercial jet aircraft developed by McDonnell Douglas as successors to its DC-9 line, widely used for short- to medium-haul passenger service.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.