No. 47 Squadron Royal Flying Corps
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No. 47 Squadron Royal Flying Corps was a British military aviation unit of the First World War era that later became part of the Royal Air Force.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| No. 47 Squadron Royal Flying Corps canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6297519 — 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: No. 47 Squadron Royal Flying Corps Context triple: [No. 47 Squadron RAF, formedAs, No. 47 Squadron Royal Flying Corps]
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No. 40 Squadron RFC
No. 40 Squadron RFC was a British Royal Flying Corps fighter squadron in World War I, noted for its air combat operations on the Western Front and for including renowned ace Edward Mannock among its pilots.
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No. 74 Squadron RFC
No. 74 Squadron RFC was a renowned British First World War fighter squadron noted for its high-scoring aces and significant role in air combat on the Western Front.
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C.
No. 28 Squadron RFC
No. 28 Squadron RFC was a British Royal Flying Corps fighter squadron of World War I known for its operations on the Western Front and in the Italian theatre.
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D.
No. 56 Squadron RFC
No. 56 Squadron RFC was a renowned British World War I fighter squadron of the Royal Flying Corps, noted for its high-scoring aces and significant role in air combat on the Western Front.
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E.
No. 9 Squadron RFC
No. 9 Squadron RFC was a Royal Flying Corps unit of the British Army during World War I, known for its reconnaissance and fighter operations on the Western Front.
- 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: No. 47 Squadron Royal Flying Corps Target entity description: No. 47 Squadron Royal Flying Corps was a British military aviation unit of the First World War era that later became part of the Royal Air Force.
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A.
No. 40 Squadron RFC
No. 40 Squadron RFC was a British Royal Flying Corps fighter squadron in World War I, noted for its air combat operations on the Western Front and for including renowned ace Edward Mannock among its pilots.
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B.
No. 74 Squadron RFC
No. 74 Squadron RFC was a renowned British First World War fighter squadron noted for its high-scoring aces and significant role in air combat on the Western Front.
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C.
No. 28 Squadron RFC
No. 28 Squadron RFC was a British Royal Flying Corps fighter squadron of World War I known for its operations on the Western Front and in the Italian theatre.
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D.
No. 56 Squadron RFC
No. 56 Squadron RFC was a renowned British World War I fighter squadron of the Royal Flying Corps, noted for its high-scoring aces and significant role in air combat on the Western Front.
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E.
No. 9 Squadron RFC
No. 9 Squadron RFC was a Royal Flying Corps unit of the British Army during World War I, known for its reconnaissance and fighter operations on the Western Front.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Flying Corps squadron
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military aviation unit ⓘ |
| conflict |
First World War
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linked to:
World War I
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| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | First World War era ⓘ |
| laterPartOf | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRole | air squadron ⓘ |
| partOf | Royal Flying Corps ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| successorUnit | No. 47 Squadron RAF ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: No. 47 Squadron Royal Flying Corps Description of subject: No. 47 Squadron Royal Flying Corps was a British military aviation unit of the First World War era that later became part of the Royal Air Force.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.