AM39
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AM39 is an air-launched variant of the French Exocet anti-ship missile, designed for use from aircraft against naval targets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AM39 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2023660 — 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: AM39 Context triple: [Exocet, typeVariant, AM39]
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A.
AMTK
AMTK is the reporting mark used by Amtrak, the United States’ national passenger railroad service, to identify its locomotives and rolling stock.
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B.
A359
A359 is the ICAO aircraft type designator for the Airbus A350-900, a long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner used primarily for international passenger flights.
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C.
A9
A9 is a major German autobahn that runs north–south, connecting Berlin with Munich and passing through regions such as Middle Franconia.
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D.
BB-39
BB-39 is the hull classification symbol for USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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E.
AC-9
The AC-9 was a class of massive 2-8-8-4 articulated steam locomotives built for the Southern Pacific Railroad, notable for their conventional (non-cab-forward) design and use in heavy freight service.
- 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: AM39 Target entity description: AM39 is an air-launched variant of the French Exocet anti-ship missile, designed for use from aircraft against naval targets.
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A.
AMTK
AMTK is the reporting mark used by Amtrak, the United States’ national passenger railroad service, to identify its locomotives and rolling stock.
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B.
A359
A359 is the ICAO aircraft type designator for the Airbus A350-900, a long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner used primarily for international passenger flights.
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C.
A9
A9 is a major German autobahn that runs north–south, connecting Berlin with Munich and passing through regions such as Middle Franconia.
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D.
BB-39
BB-39 is the hull classification symbol for USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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E.
AC-9
The AC-9 was a class of massive 2-8-8-4 articulated steam locomotives built for the Southern Pacific Railroad, notable for their conventional (non-cab-forward) design and use in heavy freight service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Exocet missile variant
ⓘ
air-launched anti-ship missile ⓘ |
| combatProven | true ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| deploymentEnvironment | maritime ⓘ |
| designedBy | Aérospatiale engineers ⓘ |
| designedForLaunchPlatform | aircraft ⓘ |
| diameter | approximately 0.35 m ⓘ |
| flightProfile | sea-skimming ⓘ |
| guidanceSystem |
active radar homing
ⓘ
inertial guidance ⓘ |
| intendedTarget | naval vessels ⓘ |
| launchPlatformExample |
Boeing P-3 Orion (modified operators)
ⓘ
Dassault Mirage 2000 ⓘ Dassault Mirage F1 ⓘ Dassault Super Étendard ⓘ
linked to:
Super Étendard aircraft
Dassault-Breguet Atlantique ⓘ
linked to:
Breguet Atlantique 2
Panavia Tornado ⓘ |
| launchWeight | approximately 670 kg ⓘ |
| length | approximately 4.7 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Aérospatiale
ⓘ
MBDA ⓘ
linked to:
MBDA France
|
| natoDesignation |
Exocet AM39
ⓘ
linked to:
Exocet anti-ship missile
|
| notableConflictUse | Falklands War ⓘ |
| notableSinking |
HMS Sheffield
ⓘ
linked to:
HMS Sheffield (D80)
MV Atlantic Conveyor ⓘ |
| operatorExample |
Argentina
ⓘ
Brazil ⓘ Greece ⓘ India ⓘ Iraq ⓘ Qatar ⓘ United Arab Emirates ⓘ |
| originProgram | Exocet development program ⓘ |
| partOfFamily |
Exocet
ⓘ
linked to:
Exocet anti-ship missile
|
| primaryRole | anti-ship warfare ⓘ |
| propulsion | solid-fuel rocket motor ⓘ |
| range | approximately 50–70 km depending on version and launch conditions ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | 1970s ⓘ |
| speed | subsonic ⓘ |
| successorOrUpgrade | later Exocet block upgrades ⓘ |
| usedBy |
French Air Force
ⓘ
French Navy ⓘ various export customers ⓘ |
| warheadType |
high-explosive fragmentation
ⓘ
semi-armor-piercing ⓘ |
| warheadWeight | approximately 165 kg ⓘ |
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: AM39 Description of subject: AM39 is an air-launched variant of the French Exocet anti-ship missile, designed for use from aircraft against naval targets.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Exocet anti-ship missile