Required Navigation Performance
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Required Navigation Performance (RNP) is a performance-based aviation navigation specification that defines the accuracy, integrity, and functionality aircraft must maintain to follow precise flight paths, often enabling more efficient and safer routes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Performance Based Navigation | 1 |
| Required Navigation Performance canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6327305 — 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: Required Navigation Performance Context triple: [Aviation Navigation, includesTechnology, Required Navigation Performance]
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A.
Point to Point Navigation
Point to Point Navigation is Gore Vidal’s late-career memoir, offering reflective and often acerbic commentary on his life, politics, and the cultural figures he encountered.
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B.
Lee Navigation
Lee Navigation is a canalised waterway in England that follows the course of the River Lea, providing a navigable route through East London and surrounding areas.
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C.
Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were a series of 17th-century English laws that regulated colonial trade to strengthen national shipping and ensure that commerce with the colonies benefited England.
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D.
Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Positioning, Navigation, and Timing is a U.S. Space Force mission area focused on providing precise location, navigation, and time-reference services—most notably through systems like GPS—to military and civilian users worldwide.
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E.
Don Navigation
Don Navigation is a canalised section of the River Don in South Yorkshire, England, forming part of the region’s historic inland waterway network for commercial and leisure boating.
- 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: Required Navigation Performance Target entity description: Required Navigation Performance (RNP) is a performance-based aviation navigation specification that defines the accuracy, integrity, and functionality aircraft must maintain to follow precise flight paths, often enabling more efficient and safer routes.
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A.
Point to Point Navigation
Point to Point Navigation is Gore Vidal’s late-career memoir, offering reflective and often acerbic commentary on his life, politics, and the cultural figures he encountered.
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B.
Lee Navigation
Lee Navigation is a canalised waterway in England that follows the course of the River Lea, providing a navigable route through East London and surrounding areas.
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C.
Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were a series of 17th-century English laws that regulated colonial trade to strengthen national shipping and ensure that commerce with the colonies benefited England.
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D.
Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Positioning, Navigation, and Timing is a U.S. Space Force mission area focused on providing precise location, navigation, and time-reference services—most notably through systems like GPS—to military and civilian users worldwide.
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E.
Don Navigation
Don Navigation is a canalised section of the River Don in South Yorkshire, England, forming part of the region’s historic inland waterway network for commercial and leisure boating.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aviation navigation specification
ⓘ
performance-based navigation specification ⓘ |
| abbreviation | RNP ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
airspace design
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instrument flight procedures ⓘ |
| definedBy |
ICAO
ⓘ
linked to:
International Civil Aviation Organization
International Civil Aviation Organization ⓘ |
| enables |
curved flight paths
ⓘ
fuel savings ⓘ radius-to-fix legs ⓘ reduced emissions ⓘ reduced need for ground-based navigation aids ⓘ shorter flight tracks ⓘ track-to-fix leg types ⓘ |
| goal |
improve airspace capacity
ⓘ
improve operational efficiency ⓘ maintain or enhance safety ⓘ |
| hasLevel |
RNP 0.3
ⓘ
RNP 1 ⓘ RNP 2 ⓘ RNP 4 ⓘ RNP APCH ⓘ RNP AR APCH ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
onboard performance monitoring and alerting required
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specified functionality requirements ⓘ specified integrity requirements ⓘ specified navigation accuracy ⓘ |
| measuredIn | nautical miles lateral accuracy ⓘ |
| partOf |
PBN
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Performance-Based Navigation ⓘ |
| regulatedBy |
ICAO PBN Manual
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state civil aviation authorities ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Area Navigation
ⓘ
RNAV ⓘ |
| requires |
aircraft certification
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approved avionics ⓘ crew training ⓘ operator authorization ⓘ |
| typicalAccuracy |
0.3 nautical miles for RNP 0.3
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1 nautical mile for RNP 1 ⓘ 2 nautical miles for RNP 2 ⓘ 4 nautical miles for RNP 4 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
approach procedures with vertical guidance
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arrival procedures ⓘ departure procedures ⓘ en-route navigation ⓘ enabling more efficient routes ⓘ enabling precise flight paths ⓘ enhancing flight safety ⓘ terminal area navigation ⓘ |
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: Required Navigation Performance Description of subject: Required Navigation Performance (RNP) is a performance-based aviation navigation specification that defines the accuracy, integrity, and functionality aircraft must maintain to follow precise flight paths, often enabling more efficient and safer routes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Required Navigation Performance