Fairey Fulmar
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The Fairey Fulmar was a British carrier-borne fighter and reconnaissance aircraft used by the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm during the early years of World War II.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fairey Fulmar canonical | 8 |
| Fairey Fulmar prototype | 1 |
| Fulmar Mk I | 1 |
| Fulmar Mk II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1990336 — 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: Fairey Fulmar Context triple: [Fairey Firefly, developedFrom, Fairey Fulmar]
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A.
Fairey Firefly
The Fairey Firefly was a British World War II-era carrier-borne fighter and anti-submarine aircraft used primarily by the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm.
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B.
Supermarine Seafire
The Supermarine Seafire was a British naval fighter aircraft, essentially a carrier-capable adaptation of the famous Spitfire, used by the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm during World War II.
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C.
Supermarine Attacker
The Supermarine Attacker was a British single-seat naval jet fighter of the early post–World War II era, notable as one of the Royal Navy’s first operational carrier-based jet aircraft.
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D.
Supermarine Spiteful
The Supermarine Spiteful was a late-World War II British fighter aircraft developed as an advanced, high-performance evolution of the Spitfire with a new laminar-flow wing and improved speed.
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E.
Fairey Battle
The Fairey Battle was a British single-engine light bomber used by the Royal Air Force in the early years of World War II, noted for its heavy losses in combat due to inadequate performance against modern fighters.
- 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: Fairey Fulmar Target entity description: The Fairey Fulmar was a British carrier-borne fighter and reconnaissance aircraft used by the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm during the early years of World War II.
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A.
Fairey Firefly
The Fairey Firefly was a British World War II-era carrier-borne fighter and anti-submarine aircraft used primarily by the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm.
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B.
Supermarine Seafire
The Supermarine Seafire was a British naval fighter aircraft, essentially a carrier-capable adaptation of the famous Spitfire, used by the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm during World War II.
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C.
Supermarine Attacker
The Supermarine Attacker was a British single-seat naval jet fighter of the early post–World War II era, notable as one of the Royal Navy’s first operational carrier-based jet aircraft.
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D.
Supermarine Spiteful
The Supermarine Spiteful was a late-World War II British fighter aircraft developed as an advanced, high-performance evolution of the Spitfire with a new laminar-flow wing and improved speed.
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E.
Fairey Battle
The Fairey Battle was a British single-engine light bomber used by the Royal Air Force in the early years of World War II, noted for its heavy losses in combat due to inadequate performance against modern fighters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British military aircraft
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carrier-borne fighter aircraft ⓘ reconnaissance aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftType | single-engine propeller aircraft ⓘ |
| armament | eight 0.303 inch Browning machine guns in wings ⓘ |
| bombLoad | up to 500 lb of bombs ⓘ |
| conflict |
Second World War
ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
|
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crew | 2 ⓘ |
| crewRole |
observer
ⓘ
pilot ⓘ |
| designedFor | aircraft carrier operations ⓘ |
| designedToMeet | Specification O.8/38 ⓘ |
| emptyWeight | about 7,080 lb ⓘ |
| engineType | liquid-cooled V-12 piston engine ⓘ |
| enteredServiceWith | 806 Naval Air Squadron ⓘ |
| feature |
folding wings for carrier stowage
ⓘ
long range for fleet reconnaissance ⓘ two-seat cockpit ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1937-01-13 ⓘ |
| height | 14 ft 1 in ⓘ |
| introduced | 1940 ⓘ |
| landingGear | tailwheel undercarriage ⓘ |
| length | 40 ft 2 in ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Fairey Aviation Company ⓘ |
| maxSpeed | about 272 mph at 7,250 ft ⓘ |
| maxTakeoffWeight | about 10,400 lb ⓘ |
| namedAfter | fulmar seabird ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 1 ⓘ |
| powerplant |
Rolls-Royce Merlin VIII
ⓘ
linked to:
Rolls-Royce Merlin
|
| primaryUser |
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm
ⓘ
linked to:
Fleet Air Arm
|
| range | about 780 miles ⓘ |
| retired | 1945 ⓘ |
| role |
carrier-borne fighter
ⓘ
naval reconnaissance ⓘ |
| sawActionIn |
Battle of Cape Matapan
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Indian Ocean theatre of World War II ⓘ
linked to:
Indian Ocean Theater of World War II
Mediterranean theatre of World War II ⓘ
linked to:
Mediterranean Theater of Operations
|
| serviceCeiling | about 22,400 ft ⓘ |
| successor |
Hawker Sea Hurricane
ⓘ
linked to:
Hawker Hurricane
Supermarine Seafire ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Fleet Air Arm
ⓘ
Royal Navy ⓘ |
| variant |
Fulmar Mk I
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linked to:
Fairey Fulmar
Fulmar Mk II ⓘ
linked to:
Fairey Fulmar
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| wingConfiguration | low-wing monoplane ⓘ |
| wingspan | 46 ft 4 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: Fairey Fulmar Description of subject: The Fairey Fulmar was a British carrier-borne fighter and reconnaissance aircraft used by the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm during the early years of World War II.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Fairey Fulmar
linked to: Fairey Fulmar
subject linked to:
aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal
linked to: Fairey Fulmar