Airman
E418748
Airman is a young adult historical adventure novel by Eoin Colfer that follows a falsely accused boy’s daring quest for freedom and justice using his obsession with flight.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Airman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4176510 — 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: Airman Context triple: [Eoin Colfer, notableWork, Airman]
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A.
Tail-Gunner Joe
Tail-Gunner Joe is the derisive nickname given to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, infamous for leading aggressive anti-communist investigations during the early Cold War era.
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B.
Soldier
"Soldier" is a pop-rock song by American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw, known for its heartfelt lyrics and soulful vocal delivery.
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C.
Gunner
Gunner is a masculine given name and surname of English origin, often associated with strength and warrior-like qualities.
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D.
Brewster McCloud
Brewster McCloud is a 1970 surreal comedy film directed by Robert Altman about a reclusive young man living in the Houston Astrodome who dreams of building a pair of wings to fly.
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E.
Razor Charlie
Razor Charlie is a tough, menacing bartender and vampire character portrayed by Danny Trejo in the "From Dusk Till Dawn" franchise.
- 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: Airman Target entity description: Airman is a young adult historical adventure novel by Eoin Colfer that follows a falsely accused boy’s daring quest for freedom and justice using his obsession with flight.
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A.
Tail-Gunner Joe
Tail-Gunner Joe is the derisive nickname given to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, infamous for leading aggressive anti-communist investigations during the early Cold War era.
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B.
Soldier
"Soldier" is a pop-rock song by American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw, known for its heartfelt lyrics and soulful vocal delivery.
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C.
Gunner
Gunner is a masculine given name and surname of English origin, often associated with strength and warrior-like qualities.
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D.
Brewster McCloud
Brewster McCloud is a 1970 surreal comedy film directed by Robert Altman about a reclusive young man living in the Houston Astrodome who dreams of building a pair of wings to fly.
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E.
Razor Charlie
Razor Charlie is a tough, menacing bartender and vampire character portrayed by Danny Trejo in the "From Dusk Till Dawn" franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical adventure novel
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novel ⓘ young adult novel ⓘ |
| author | Eoin Colfer ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
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historical fiction ⓘ young adult fiction ⓘ |
| hasHardcoverEdition | yes ⓘ |
| hasIllustrations | no ⓘ |
| hasPaperbackEdition | yes ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Conor Broekhart ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor | blending aviation history with adventure for young readers ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A boy falsely accused of treason is imprisoned and uses his obsession with flight to plan his escape and seek justice. ⓘ |
| protagonist | Conor Broekhart ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| publisher | HarperCollins ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| settingPlace | Saltee Islands ⓘ |
| targetAudience | young adults ⓘ |
| theme |
identity
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innovation in flight ⓘ quest for freedom ⓘ quest for justice ⓘ revenge ⓘ wrongful imprisonment ⓘ |
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: Airman Description of subject: Airman is a young adult historical adventure novel by Eoin Colfer that follows a falsely accused boy’s daring quest for freedom and justice using his obsession with flight.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.