Su-15
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The Su-15 was a Soviet supersonic interceptor aircraft developed in the 1960s, best known for its role in Cold War air defense and its involvement in several high-profile shootdown incidents.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sukhoi Su-15 | 8 |
| Su-15 canonical | 2 |
| Su-15 interceptor | 1 |
| Su-15T | 1 |
| Su-15TM | 1 |
| Su-15UM | 1 |
| Su-15UT | 1 |
| Sukhoi Su-15 variants | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2109235 — 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: Su-15 Context triple: [Soviet Air Defense Forces, operatedAircraft, Su-15]
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A.
Su-11
The Su-11 was a Soviet supersonic interceptor aircraft developed in the early Cold War era to defend Soviet airspace against high-altitude threats.
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B.
Su-9
The Su-9 was a Soviet supersonic jet interceptor aircraft developed in the 1950s for high-speed, high-altitude air defense missions.
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C.
Sukhoi Su-7
The Sukhoi Su-7 is a Soviet-era swept-wing fighter-bomber aircraft widely used during the Cold War for ground-attack missions.
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D.
Su-22
The Su-22 is a Soviet-designed variable-sweep wing fighter-bomber widely exported and used for ground-attack missions by several air forces, including Poland’s.
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E.
Sukhoi Su-25
The Sukhoi Su-25 is a Soviet-era, twin-engine, subsonic close air support aircraft designed for attacking ground targets in frontline combat.
- 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: Su-15 Target entity description: The Su-15 was a Soviet supersonic interceptor aircraft developed in the 1960s, best known for its role in Cold War air defense and its involvement in several high-profile shootdown incidents.
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A.
Su-11
The Su-11 was a Soviet supersonic interceptor aircraft developed in the early Cold War era to defend Soviet airspace against high-altitude threats.
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B.
Su-9
The Su-9 was a Soviet supersonic jet interceptor aircraft developed in the 1950s for high-speed, high-altitude air defense missions.
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C.
Sukhoi Su-7
The Sukhoi Su-7 is a Soviet-era swept-wing fighter-bomber aircraft widely used during the Cold War for ground-attack missions.
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D.
Su-22
The Su-22 is a Soviet-designed variable-sweep wing fighter-bomber widely exported and used for ground-attack missions by several air forces, including Poland’s.
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E.
Sukhoi Su-25
The Sukhoi Su-25 is a Soviet-era, twin-engine, subsonic close air support aircraft designed for attacking ground targets in frontline combat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet aircraft
ⓘ
interceptor aircraft ⓘ military aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftType | supersonic jet ⓘ |
| armament |
R-8 missiles
ⓘ
R-98 missiles ⓘ air-to-air missiles ⓘ internal cannon on some variants ⓘ later R-60 missiles ⓘ |
| avionics | radar fire-control system ⓘ |
| category |
Cold War Soviet jet aircraft
ⓘ
Sukhoi aircraft ⓘ
linked to:
Sukhoi Su-27
|
| conflict | Cold War ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crew | 1 ⓘ |
| designer | Pavel Sukhoi ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
Sukhoi Su-11
ⓘ
linked to:
Su-11
Sukhoi Su-9 ⓘ
linked to:
Su-9
|
| engineType | twin-engine turbojet ⓘ |
| era | Cold War ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1962 ⓘ |
| introduced | mid-1960s ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Sukhoi Design Bureau ⓘ |
| maxSpeed |
approximately 2,230 km/h at altitude
ⓘ
around Mach 2 ⓘ |
| natoReportingName | Flagon ⓘ |
| notableIncident |
interceptions of Western reconnaissance aircraft
ⓘ
shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 ⓘ shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 902 ⓘ |
| notableVariant |
Su-15T
ⓘ
linked to:
Su-15
Su-15TM ⓘ
linked to:
Su-15
Su-15UM ⓘ
linked to:
Su-15
Su-15UT ⓘ
linked to:
Su-15
|
| numberBuilt | over 1,200 ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 2 ⓘ |
| primaryUser |
Soviet Air Defence Forces
ⓘ
linked to:
Soviet Air Defense Forces
|
| productionPeriod | 1960s–1970s ⓘ |
| range | approximately 1,600 km ⓘ |
| retired | 1990s ⓘ |
| role | interceptor ⓘ |
| serviceCeiling | around 18,000 m ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | 1965 ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | conventional tail ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Georgian Air Force (post-Soviet)
ⓘ
linked to:
Georgian Air Force
Soviet Union ⓘ Ukrainian Air Force (post-Soviet) ⓘ
linked to:
Ukrainian Air Force
|
| usedFor |
air defense
ⓘ
interception of hostile aircraft ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | swept 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: Su-15 Description of subject: The Su-15 was a Soviet supersonic interceptor aircraft developed in the 1960s, best known for its role in Cold War air defense and its involvement in several high-profile shootdown incidents.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Su-15
linked to: Su-15
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linked to: Su-15
linked to: Su-15
linked to: Su-15
subject linked to:
1983 Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shootdown
linked to: Su-15
linked to: Su-15
linked to: Su-15