Meteor NF.14
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The Meteor NF.14 was a British twin-engine, jet-powered night fighter variant of the Gloster Meteor, featuring an extended nose and radar for all-weather interception duties in the early Cold War era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Meteor NF.14 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2937703 — 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: Meteor NF.14 Context triple: [Gloster Meteor, variant, Meteor NF.14]
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A.
Meteor NF.12
The Meteor NF.12 was a British twin-engine, all-weather night fighter variant of the Gloster Meteor jet, featuring an extended nose to house advanced radar equipment.
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B.
Meteor NF.11
The Meteor NF.11 was a British twin-engine, jet-powered night fighter variant of the Gloster Meteor, equipped with radar for all-weather interception duties in the early Cold War era.
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C.
Meteor F.1
The Meteor F.1 was the first operational variant of Britain’s Gloster Meteor jet fighter and one of the earliest jet-powered combat aircraft to enter service during World War II.
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D.
Meteor F.3
The Meteor F.3 was an early production fighter variant of Britain’s Gloster Meteor, notable as one of the first operational jet fighters used by the Royal Air Force during and shortly after World War II.
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E.
Météores
Météores is one of the scientific essays by René Descartes, accompanying his Discours de la méthode and focusing on the study of meteorological and atmospheric phenomena.
- 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: Meteor NF.14 Target entity description: The Meteor NF.14 was a British twin-engine, jet-powered night fighter variant of the Gloster Meteor, featuring an extended nose and radar for all-weather interception duties in the early Cold War era.
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A.
Meteor NF.12
The Meteor NF.12 was a British twin-engine, all-weather night fighter variant of the Gloster Meteor jet, featuring an extended nose to house advanced radar equipment.
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B.
Meteor NF.11
The Meteor NF.11 was a British twin-engine, jet-powered night fighter variant of the Gloster Meteor, equipped with radar for all-weather interception duties in the early Cold War era.
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C.
Meteor F.1
The Meteor F.1 was the first operational variant of Britain’s Gloster Meteor jet fighter and one of the earliest jet-powered combat aircraft to enter service during World War II.
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D.
Meteor F.3
The Meteor F.3 was an early production fighter variant of Britain’s Gloster Meteor, notable as one of the first operational jet fighters used by the Royal Air Force during and shortly after World War II.
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E.
Météores
Météores is one of the scientific essays by René Descartes, accompanying his Discours de la méthode and focusing on the study of meteorological and atmospheric phenomena.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jet fighter aircraft
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military aircraft ⓘ night fighter aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftGeneration | first-generation jet fighter ⓘ |
| aircraftRole |
all-weather interceptor
ⓘ
night fighter ⓘ |
| airForceBranch |
Royal Air Force night fighter squadrons
ⓘ
linked to:
RAF night fighter squadrons
|
| airframeFeature |
extended nose
ⓘ
radar nose ⓘ two-seat cockpit ⓘ |
| armamentType | cannon armament ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Gloster Meteor fighter
ⓘ
linked to:
Gloster Meteor
|
| category |
British jet aircraft
ⓘ
Cold War military aircraft of the United Kingdom ⓘ twinjet aircraft ⓘ |
| configuration | twin-engine jet ⓘ |
| conflict | Cold War ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crew | 2 ⓘ |
| crewPosition | pilot and radar operator ⓘ |
| designedAs | radar-equipped interceptor ⓘ |
| designedBy | Gloster design team ⓘ |
| designedFor |
all-weather operations
ⓘ
night interception ⓘ |
| engineType | turbojet ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1950s ⓘ |
| era | early Cold War ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1950s ⓘ |
| hasNoseExtension | true ⓘ |
| landingGear | retractable tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Gloster Aircraft Company ⓘ |
| numberOfEngines | 2 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Gloster Meteor ⓘ |
| powerplant | Rolls-Royce Derwent turbojet ⓘ |
| primaryMission |
air defence
ⓘ
interception of enemy bombers ⓘ |
| propulsionLayout | engines mounted in wing roots ⓘ |
| radar | airborne interception radar ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| successorTo |
Meteor NF.11
ⓘ
Meteor NF.12 ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | conventional tailplane ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Royal Air Force
ⓘ
Royal Air Force Fighter Command ⓘ |
| usedFor | training in later service life ⓘ |
| variantOf | Gloster Meteor ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | low-wing monoplane ⓘ |
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: Meteor NF.14 Description of subject: The Meteor NF.14 was a British twin-engine, jet-powered night fighter variant of the Gloster Meteor, featuring an extended nose and radar for all-weather interception duties in the early Cold War era.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.