Blinder
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Blinder is the NATO reporting name for the Soviet-era Tupolev Tu-22 supersonic bomber aircraft.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blinder canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2789947 — 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: Blinder Context triple: [Tupolev Tu-22, NATOreportingName, Blinder]
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A.
Blix
Blix is a Swedish surname most notably associated with Hans Blix, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and UN weapons inspector.
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B.
Blum
Blum is a surname of German and Jewish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as mathematics, politics, and the arts.
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C.
Thaler
The Thaler was a large silver coin and monetary unit widely used across various German states and parts of Europe from the 16th to 19th centuries, serving as a precursor to the modern dollar.
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D.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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E.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
- 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: Blinder Target entity description: Blinder is the NATO reporting name for the Soviet-era Tupolev Tu-22 supersonic bomber aircraft.
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A.
Blix
Blix is a Swedish surname most notably associated with Hans Blix, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and UN weapons inspector.
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B.
Blum
Blum is a surname of German and Jewish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as mathematics, politics, and the arts.
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C.
Thaler
The Thaler was a large silver coin and monetary unit widely used across various German states and parts of Europe from the 16th to 19th centuries, serving as a precursor to the modern dollar.
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D.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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E.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | NATO reporting name ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory |
combat aircraft
ⓘ
military aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftConfiguration | twin‑engine jet ⓘ |
| aircraftType |
bomber
ⓘ
supersonic bomber ⓘ |
| allianceContext |
NATO–Warsaw Pact confrontation
ⓘ
linked to:
NATO–Soviet relations
|
| armamentCapability |
air‑to‑surface missiles
ⓘ
free‑fall bombs ⓘ nuclear weapons ⓘ |
| basedOn | Tupolev design lineage ⓘ |
| conflict | Cold War ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crew | 3 ⓘ |
| crewPosition | tandem cockpit ⓘ |
| designedBy | Andrei Tupolev ⓘ |
| designedFor |
conventional bombing
ⓘ
high‑speed low‑level penetration ⓘ nuclear strike missions ⓘ |
| engineType | turbojet ⓘ |
| era | Soviet era ⓘ |
| firstFlight | late 1950s ⓘ |
| introducedAsNATOName |
Cold War era
ⓘ
linked to:
Cold War
|
| landingGear | tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Tupolev Design Bureau ⓘ |
| maxSpeedClass | supersonic ⓘ |
| NATOReportingNameFor | Tu‑22 bomber variants ⓘ |
| notableFeature | one of the first Soviet supersonic bombers ⓘ |
| operatedFrom | land bases ⓘ |
| originatesFromProgram | Soviet long‑range bomber program ⓘ |
| primaryUser | Soviet Air Forces ⓘ |
| rangeClass | medium‑range bomber ⓘ |
| refersTo |
Tupolev Tu-22
ⓘ
linked to:
Tupolev Tu-22 bomber
|
| role |
maritime strike aircraft
ⓘ
strategic bomber ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | early 1960s ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successorAircraft |
Tupolev Tu‑22M Backfire
ⓘ
linked to:
Tupolev Tu-22 bomber
|
| tailConfiguration | conventional tail ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Iraqi Air Force
ⓘ
Libyan Air Force ⓘ Russian Air Force (early post‑Soviet period) ⓘ
linked to:
Russian Air Force
Soviet Air Forces ⓘ Ukrainian Air Force ⓘ |
| usedFor |
electronic warfare variants (Tu‑22P family)
ⓘ
maritime strike variants (Tu‑22K family) ⓘ reconnaissance variants (Tu‑22R family) ⓘ |
| wingType | swept wing ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Blinder Description of subject: Blinder is the NATO reporting name for the Soviet-era Tupolev Tu-22 supersonic bomber aircraft.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tupolev Tu-22 bomber