AF 8x-xxxx
E374037
AF 8x-xxxx is a United States Air Force tail number prefix assigned to individual Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bombers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AF 8x-xxxx canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3612977 — 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: AF 8x-xxxx Context triple: [B-2 Spirit, tailNumberPrefix, AF 8x-xxxx]
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A.
A86
A86 is a major orbital motorway forming part of the ring road system around Paris, France.
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B.
A8
A8 is a major numbered road designation used in several countries for important regional or intercity routes.
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C.
F82
F82 is the pennant number assigned to HMS Sikh, a British Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer that served during the Second World War.
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D.
11 AF
11 AF is the abbreviation for the Eleventh Air Force, a numbered air force of the United States Air Force responsible primarily for air operations in the Alaska region.
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E.
XAF
XAF is the currency code for the Central African CFA franc, a regional currency used by several Central African countries.
- 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: AF 8x-xxxx Target entity description: AF 8x-xxxx is a United States Air Force tail number prefix assigned to individual Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bombers.
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A.
A86
A86 is a major orbital motorway forming part of the ring road system around Paris, France.
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B.
A8
A8 is a major numbered road designation used in several countries for important regional or intercity routes.
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C.
F82
F82 is the pennant number assigned to HMS Sikh, a British Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer that served during the Second World War.
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D.
11 AF
11 AF is the abbreviation for the Eleventh Air Force, a numbered air force of the United States Air Force responsible primarily for air operations in the Alaska region.
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E.
XAF
XAF is the currency code for the Central African CFA franc, a regional currency used by several Central African countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States military aircraft serial number format element
ⓘ
aircraft tail number prefix ⓘ |
| 8xComponentMeaning | indicates fiscal year 198x ⓘ |
| AFComponentMeaning | indicates United States Air Force ownership ⓘ |
| aircraftModelDesignation |
B-2A
ⓘ
linked to:
B-2 Spirit
|
| aircraftRole | strategic bomber ⓘ |
| aircraftType | stealth bomber ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
B-2 Spirit stealth bomber
ⓘ
linked to:
B-2 Spirit
Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit ⓘ
linked to:
B-2 Spirit
|
| appliesToFleet | entire B-2 Spirit production fleet ⓘ |
| appliesToStatus |
operational B-2 aircraft
ⓘ
test B-2 aircraft ⓘ |
| associatedWithBase |
Whiteman Air Force Base
ⓘ
linked to:
Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri
|
| associatedWithMissionType |
conventional precision strike
ⓘ
nuclear deterrence ⓘ |
| associatedWithProgram |
B-2 Spirit program
ⓘ
linked to:
B-2 Spirit
|
| componentOf | USAF aircraft serial number system ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| displayFormat |
painted tail code
ⓘ
stenciled serial number ⓘ |
| documentation |
USAF aircraft inventory records
ⓘ
USAF technical orders ⓘ |
| governingAuthority | United States Air Force serial number regulations ⓘ |
| identificationDomain | military aviation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Northrop Grumman ⓘ |
| notationElement |
8x
ⓘ
AF ⓘ xxxx ⓘ |
| notationPattern | AF 8x-xxxx ⓘ |
| numericSystem | Arabic numerals ⓘ |
| prefixMeaning | Air Force fiscal year and sequence number ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
USAF fiscal year-based serial numbering system
ⓘ
United States military aircraft serials ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| uniquenessScope | unique to each individual B-2 aircraft ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administrative tracking of B-2 aircraft
ⓘ
identification of individual B-2 aircraft ⓘ maintenance record keeping for B-2 aircraft ⓘ |
| usedOn |
B-2 aircraft fuselage markings
ⓘ
B-2 aircraft tail surfaces ⓘ |
| usedSince | late 1980s ⓘ |
| xxxxComponentMeaning | indicates individual aircraft sequence number ⓘ |
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: AF 8x-xxxx Description of subject: AF 8x-xxxx is a United States Air Force tail number prefix assigned to individual Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bombers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.