RE8
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The RE8 was a British World War I two-seat reconnaissance and artillery observation biplane widely used by Allied air services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RE8 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1852495 — 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: RE8 Context triple: [Australian Flying Corps, aircraftUsed, RE8]
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Ren
Ren is a central character in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy, known for her experiences as a sex worker and survivor in a bioengineered, post-apocalyptic world.
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B.
Rakkasans
Rakkasans is the distinctive nickname of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, renowned for its airborne and air assault operations.
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RE
RE is the abbreviation for RegioExpress, a category of regional express trains commonly used in European rail transport.
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RE
RE is the common abbreviation for the British Army’s Corps of Royal Engineers, responsible for military engineering and technical support.
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RE
RE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to the French overseas department and region of Réunion.
- 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: RE8 Target entity description: The RE8 was a British World War I two-seat reconnaissance and artillery observation biplane widely used by Allied air services.
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A.
Ren
Ren is a central character in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy, known for her experiences as a sex worker and survivor in a bioengineered, post-apocalyptic world.
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B.
Rakkasans
Rakkasans is the distinctive nickname of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, renowned for its airborne and air assault operations.
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C.
RE
RE is the common abbreviation for the British Army’s Corps of Royal Engineers, responsible for military engineering and technical support.
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D.
RE
RE is the abbreviation for RegioExpress, a category of regional express trains commonly used in European rail transport.
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E.
RE
RE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to the French overseas department and region of Réunion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World War I aircraft
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artillery observation aircraft ⓘ biplane ⓘ military reconnaissance aircraft ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
R.E.8
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RE8 ⓘ |
| armament |
forward-firing Vickers machine gun
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observer-mounted Lewis gun ⓘ |
| bombload | light bombs for ground attack ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crew | 2 ⓘ |
| engineType | water-cooled inline piston engine ⓘ |
| enteredServiceWith | Royal Flying Corps No. 52 Squadron ⓘ |
| era | 1910s ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1916 ⓘ |
| height |
approximately 10 ft 5 in
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approximately 3.18 m ⓘ |
| introducedAsReplacementFor | Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 ⓘ |
| landingGear | fixed tailskid undercarriage ⓘ |
| length |
approximately 27 ft 10 in
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approximately 8.48 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Royal Aircraft Factory ⓘ |
| maxSpeed |
approximately 103 mph
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approximately 166 km/h ⓘ |
| nickname | Harry Tate ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | over 4,000 ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 1 ⓘ |
| powerplant | Royal Aircraft Factory 4a inline engine ⓘ |
| primaryRole |
artillery spotting
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reconnaissance ⓘ |
| productionPeriod | 1916–1918 ⓘ |
| propulsion | single tractor propeller ⓘ |
| serviceCeiling |
approximately 13,000 ft
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approximately 4,000 m ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | 1916 ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | conventional tailplane and fin ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Australian Flying Corps
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Belgian Air Force ⓘ Royal Air Force ⓘ Royal Flying Corps ⓘ United States Army Air Service ⓘ |
| usedFor |
artillery fire direction
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contact patrols ⓘ light bombing ⓘ photographic reconnaissance ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | two-bay biplane ⓘ |
| wingspan |
approximately 12.98 m
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approximately 42 ft 7 in ⓘ |
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: RE8 Description of subject: The RE8 was a British World War I two-seat reconnaissance and artillery observation biplane widely used by Allied air services.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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RE8