Snecma M88
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The Snecma M88 is a French afterburning turbofan engine developed to power the Dassault Rafale multirole fighter aircraft.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Snecma M88 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3218864 — 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: Snecma M88 Context triple: [Snecma M53, successor, Snecma M88]
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A.
Snecma M53
The Snecma M53 is a French afterburning turbofan jet engine developed by Snecma, best known for powering Dassault’s Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft.
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B.
SNECMA Atar 8K-50
The SNECMA Atar 8K-50 is a French afterburning turbojet engine developed in the mid-20th century and used to power several combat aircraft, notably Dassault fighter and attack jets.
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C.
Turbomeca Astazou
The Turbomeca Astazou is a French-designed turboshaft and turboprop engine widely used in light helicopters and aircraft from the 1960s onward.
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D.
Safran Arriel 2E
The Safran Arriel 2E is a modern turboshaft engine designed for light twin-engine helicopters, offering improved power, fuel efficiency, and reliability over earlier Arriel variants.
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E.
Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593
The Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 is a turbojet engine jointly developed by British and French manufacturers to power the supersonic Concorde airliner at sustained Mach 2 cruise speeds.
- 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: Snecma M88 Target entity description: The Snecma M88 is a French afterburning turbofan engine developed to power the Dassault Rafale multirole fighter aircraft.
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A.
Snecma M53
The Snecma M53 is a French afterburning turbofan jet engine developed by Snecma, best known for powering Dassault’s Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft.
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B.
SNECMA Atar 8K-50
The SNECMA Atar 8K-50 is a French afterburning turbojet engine developed in the mid-20th century and used to power several combat aircraft, notably Dassault fighter and attack jets.
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C.
Turbomeca Astazou
The Turbomeca Astazou is a French-designed turboshaft and turboprop engine widely used in light helicopters and aircraft from the 1960s onward.
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D.
Safran Arriel 2E
The Safran Arriel 2E is a modern turboshaft engine designed for light twin-engine helicopters, offering improved power, fuel efficiency, and reliability over earlier Arriel variants.
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E.
Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593
The Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 is a turbojet engine jointly developed by British and French manufacturers to power the supersonic Concorde airliner at sustained Mach 2 cruise speeds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
afterburning turbofan engine
ⓘ
military aircraft engine ⓘ |
| application | multirole fighter aircraft ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory |
French military aircraft engines
ⓘ
turbofan engines ⓘ |
| compressorType | axial compressor ⓘ |
| configuration | twin-spool ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| designedFor |
easy maintenance
ⓘ
high reliability ⓘ low radar signature integration ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Safran Aircraft Engines
ⓘ
Snecma ⓘ |
| developedFor | Dassault Rafale ⓘ |
| engineType | turbofan ⓘ |
| fuelType | jet fuel ⓘ |
| hasCapability |
high maneuverability support
ⓘ
supersonic flight support ⓘ |
| hasFeature | afterburner ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
M88-2
ⓘ
M88-3 ⓘ M88-4E ⓘ |
| intendedRole | fighter engine ⓘ |
| introducedFor |
Dassault Rafale program
ⓘ
linked to:
Dassault Rafale
|
| manufacturer | Snecma ⓘ |
| marketedAs | M88 ⓘ |
| operationalStatus | in service ⓘ |
| powerplantOf |
Dassault Rafale multirole fighter
ⓘ
linked to:
Dassault Rafale
|
| primaryUser |
French Air and Space Force
ⓘ
linked to:
French Air Force
French Navy ⓘ |
| thrustClass | medium thrust ⓘ |
| usedByCountry |
Croatia
ⓘ
Egypt ⓘ France ⓘ Greece ⓘ India ⓘ Indonesia ⓘ Qatar ⓘ United Arab Emirates ⓘ |
| usedInAircraft | Dassault Rafale ⓘ |
| usedInRole |
air superiority missions
ⓘ
ground attack missions ⓘ reconnaissance missions ⓘ |
| usedOnAircraftVariant |
Dassault Rafale B
ⓘ
linked to:
Dassault Rafale
Dassault Rafale C ⓘ
linked to:
Dassault Rafale
Dassault Rafale M ⓘ
linked to:
Dassault Rafale
|
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: Snecma M88 Description of subject: The Snecma M88 is a French afterburning turbofan engine developed to power the Dassault Rafale multirole fighter aircraft.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.