Airbus A340
E39285
airliner variant
commercial passenger aircraft
long-range airliner
stretched airliner variant
ultra-long-range airliner variant
wide-body jet airliner
The Airbus A340 is a long-range, four-engine wide-body commercial airliner designed for intercontinental passenger flights.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Airbus A340 canonical | 9 |
| Airbus A340-500 | 5 |
| Airbus A340-600 | 4 |
| Airbus A340-200 | 2 |
| Airbus A340-300 | 2 |
| Airbus A340 (historical) | 1 |
| Airbus A340 (historically) | 1 |
| Airbus A340 (transport/VIP) | 1 |
| Airbus A340 program | 1 |
| Airbus A340-500/600 | 1 |
| four-engine Airbus A340 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T292398 — 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: Airbus A340 Context triple: [Airbus, product, Airbus A340]
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A.
Airbus A330
The Airbus A330 is a wide-body, twin-engine jet airliner designed for medium- to long-haul routes and widely used by airlines around the world.
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B.
Airbus A300
The Airbus A300 is a wide-body twin-engine jet airliner introduced in the 1970s as Airbus’s first commercial aircraft and one of the world’s earliest twin-engine wide-bodies.
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C.
Airbus A310
The Airbus A310 is a twin-engine, wide-body jet airliner introduced in the early 1980s as a shorter, more efficient derivative of the Airbus A300 for medium- to long-haul routes.
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D.
Boeing 777
The Boeing 777 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner widely used by airlines around the world for international passenger flights.
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E.
Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is a wide-body, long-range commercial airliner famous for its distinctive hump-backed upper deck and for revolutionizing mass international air travel as one of the first jumbo jets.
- 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: Airbus A340 Target entity description: The Airbus A340 is a long-range, four-engine wide-body commercial airliner designed for intercontinental passenger flights.
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A.
Airbus A330
The Airbus A330 is a wide-body, twin-engine jet airliner designed for medium- to long-haul routes and widely used by airlines around the world.
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B.
Airbus A300
The Airbus A300 is a wide-body twin-engine jet airliner introduced in the 1970s as Airbus’s first commercial aircraft and one of the world’s earliest twin-engine wide-bodies.
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C.
Airbus A310
The Airbus A310 is a twin-engine, wide-body jet airliner introduced in the early 1980s as a shorter, more efficient derivative of the Airbus A300 for medium- to long-haul routes.
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D.
Boeing 777
The Boeing 777 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner widely used by airlines around the world for international passenger flights.
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E.
Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is a wide-body, long-range commercial airliner famous for its distinctive hump-backed upper deck and for revolutionizing mass international air travel as one of the first jumbo jets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airliner variant
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airliner variant ⓘ commercial passenger aircraft ⓘ long-range airliner ⓘ stretched airliner variant ⓘ ultra-long-range airliner variant ⓘ wide-body jet airliner ⓘ |
| aircraftType |
four-engine jet
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wide-body ⓘ |
| canBeConfiguredAs |
all-economy layout
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multi-class layout ⓘ |
| designConfiguration | low-wing cantilever monoplane ⓘ |
| designedFor | intercontinental passenger flights ⓘ |
| developedAlongside | Airbus A330 ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
Airbus A300 family technologies
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linked to:
Airbus A300
|
| engineConfiguration | four underwing turbofan engines ⓘ |
| familyVariant |
Airbus A340-200
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linked to:
Airbus A340
Airbus A340-300 ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus A340
Airbus A340-500 ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus A340
Airbus A340-600 ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus A340
|
| firstFlightDate | 1991-10-25 ⓘ |
| fuselageType | twin-aisle ⓘ |
| introducedIntoService | 1993 ⓘ |
| landingGearConfiguration | tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| launchCustomer |
Air France
ⓘ
Lufthansa ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Airbus ⓘ |
| marketPosition | long-haul wide-body segment ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
long fuselage
ⓘ
very long range capability ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | 377 ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
civil aviation
ⓘ
passenger transport ⓘ |
| productionEndYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| productionStartYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| rangeClass | intercontinental ⓘ |
| role |
high-capacity long-range airliner
ⓘ
long-haul passenger transport ⓘ long-range passenger airliner ⓘ long-range passenger airliner ⓘ ultra-long-range passenger airliner ⓘ |
| status | out of production ⓘ |
| successorInProductLine |
Airbus A330neo
ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus A330
Airbus A350 XWB ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus A350
|
| tailConfiguration | conventional tailplane ⓘ |
| typicalCruiseSpeedKmh | 870 ⓘ |
| typicalCruiseSpeedMach | 0.82 ⓘ |
| typicalFlightDeckCrew | 2 ⓘ |
| typicalSeating |
around 240 passengers
ⓘ
around 295 passengers ⓘ |
| typicalTwoClassCapacityRange | around 250–380 passengers ⓘ |
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: Airbus A340 Description of subject: The Airbus A340 is a long-range, four-engine wide-body commercial airliner designed for intercontinental passenger flights.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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