Short Calcutta
E384362
The Short Calcutta was a British three-engined flying boat airliner of the late 1920s, used primarily on Imperial Airways’ Mediterranean and Empire routes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Short Calcutta canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3746244 — 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: Short Calcutta Context triple: [Short Brothers, notableProduct, Short Calcutta]
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A.
Black Hole of Calcutta
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small prison cell in Fort William where a large number of British prisoners were allegedly confined overnight in 1756, resulting in many deaths and becoming a notorious symbol of colonial-era atrocity.
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B.
Calcutta Time
Calcutta Time was a former local time standard used in Kolkata (then Calcutta) before the adoption of a unified national time zone in India.
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C.
The Bengalee
The Bengalee was an influential English-language newspaper in colonial India known for its role in the nationalist movement and its association with prominent leader Surendranath Banerjee.
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D.
Ghare-Baire
Ghare-Baire is a 1916 Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore that explores nationalism, gender, and personal freedom against the backdrop of the Swadeshi movement in colonial India.
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E.
Notturno indiano
Notturno indiano is a short, atmospheric novel by Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi that follows a man's nocturnal, dreamlike journey across India in search of a missing friend.
- 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: Short Calcutta Target entity description: The Short Calcutta was a British three-engined flying boat airliner of the late 1920s, used primarily on Imperial Airways’ Mediterranean and Empire routes.
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A.
Black Hole of Calcutta
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small prison cell in Fort William where a large number of British prisoners were allegedly confined overnight in 1756, resulting in many deaths and becoming a notorious symbol of colonial-era atrocity.
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B.
Calcutta Time
Calcutta Time was a former local time standard used in Kolkata (then Calcutta) before the adoption of a unified national time zone in India.
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C.
The Bengalee
The Bengalee was an influential English-language newspaper in colonial India known for its role in the nationalist movement and its association with prominent leader Surendranath Banerjee.
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D.
Ghare-Baire
Ghare-Baire is a 1916 Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore that explores nationalism, gender, and personal freedom against the backdrop of the Swadeshi movement in colonial India.
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E.
Notturno indiano
Notturno indiano is a short, atmospheric novel by Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi that follows a man's nocturnal, dreamlike journey across India in search of a missing friend.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airliner
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flying boat ⓘ three-engined aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory |
civil aircraft
ⓘ
transport aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftConfiguration |
cantilever monoplane
ⓘ
high-wing ⓘ |
| aircraftRole |
commercial flying boat
ⓘ
mail transport ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial | metal hull ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designedFor | medium-range routes ⓘ |
| developedInPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| engineCount | 3 ⓘ |
| engineType | radial piston engine ⓘ |
| enteredServicePeriod | late 1920s ⓘ |
| enteredServiceWith | Imperial Airways ⓘ |
| firstFlightDate | 1928 ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Short Brothers ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Imperial Airways ⓘ |
| operationalEnvironment | maritime ⓘ |
| operatorType | flag carrier ⓘ |
| propulsion | propeller-driven ⓘ |
| takeoffAndLanding | water ⓘ |
| usedBy | British civil aviation ⓘ |
| usedFor | passenger transport ⓘ |
| usedOnRoute |
Empire routes
ⓘ
Mediterranean routes ⓘ |
| wingPlacement | parasol 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: Short Calcutta Description of subject: The Short Calcutta was a British three-engined flying boat airliner of the late 1920s, used primarily on Imperial Airways’ Mediterranean and Empire routes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.