Voyager
E81561
air-to-air refuelling aircraft
military aircraft
multi-role tanker transport aircraft
strategic airlift aircraft
Voyager is the Royal Air Force’s multi-role tanker transport aircraft, providing air-to-air refuelling and strategic airlift capabilities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Voyager canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T650094 — 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: Voyager Context triple: [Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft programme, RAFDesignation, Voyager]
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A.
Voyager 1
Voyager 1 is a NASA space probe launched in 1977 that became the most distant human-made object in space, conducting historic flybys of Jupiter and Saturn and now exploring interstellar space.
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B.
Voyager program
The Voyager program is a NASA mission that launched the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in 1977 to explore the outer planets and interstellar space, becoming one of humanity’s most significant and long-lived space exploration efforts.
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C.
Voyager 2
Voyager 2 is a NASA space probe launched in 1977 that conducted historic flybys of all four outer giant planets and is now traveling through interstellar space.
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D.
New Horizons
New Horizons is a NASA space probe best known for its historic flyby of Pluto and exploration of the outer regions of the solar system.
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E.
Pioneer 10
Pioneer 10 is a NASA space probe launched in 1972 that became the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt and make a direct observation of Jupiter before heading into interstellar space.
- 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: Voyager Target entity description: Voyager is the Royal Air Force’s multi-role tanker transport aircraft, providing air-to-air refuelling and strategic airlift capabilities.
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A.
Voyager 1
Voyager 1 is a NASA space probe launched in 1977 that became the most distant human-made object in space, conducting historic flybys of Jupiter and Saturn and now exploring interstellar space.
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B.
Voyager program
The Voyager program is a NASA mission that launched the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in 1977 to explore the outer planets and interstellar space, becoming one of humanity’s most significant and long-lived space exploration efforts.
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C.
Voyager 2
Voyager 2 is a NASA space probe launched in 1977 that conducted historic flybys of all four outer giant planets and is now traveling through interstellar space.
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D.
New Horizons
New Horizons is a NASA space probe best known for its historic flyby of Pluto and exploration of the outer regions of the solar system.
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E.
Pioneer 10
Pioneer 10 is a NASA space probe launched in 1972 that became the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt and make a direct observation of Jupiter before heading into interstellar space.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
air-to-air refuelling aircraft
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military aircraft ⓘ multi-role tanker transport aircraft ⓘ strategic airlift aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftCategory | tanker-transport ⓘ |
| airframeType | Airbus A330 ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Airbus A330 MRTT
ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus A330 MRTT Phénix
|
| belongsToProgramme | Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft programme ⓘ |
| canCarry |
freight
ⓘ
medical stretchers ⓘ passengers ⓘ |
| canRefuel |
fast jets
ⓘ
large aircraft ⓘ |
| capability |
long-range strategic deployment of forces
ⓘ
simultaneous refuelling of two receiver aircraft ⓘ |
| configuration | two-engine widebody jet ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewRole |
cabin crew
ⓘ
cockpit crew ⓘ mission systems operator ⓘ |
| designationInRAF |
Voyager KC2
ⓘ
Voyager KC3 ⓘ
linked to:
Voyager KC2
|
| engineType | turbofan ⓘ |
| enteredServiceWith | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| hasCapability | aerial refuelling of UK and allied aircraft ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Airbus ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| primaryMission | air-to-air refuelling of RAF combat aircraft ⓘ |
| refuellingMethod | hose-and-drogue ⓘ |
| replaced |
Lockheed TriStar
ⓘ
linked to:
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
Vickers VC10 ⓘ
linked to:
RAF VC10
|
| role |
air-to-air refuelling
ⓘ
cargo transport ⓘ medical evacuation ⓘ strategic air transport ⓘ troop transport ⓘ |
| secondaryMission |
aeromedical evacuation
ⓘ
freight transport ⓘ long-range passenger transport ⓘ |
| serviceBranch |
Royal Air Force Air Mobility Force
ⓘ
linked to:
RAF Air Mobility Force
|
| serviceStatus | in service ⓘ |
| serviceType | core air mobility asset of the RAF ⓘ |
| usedFor |
support of NATO operations
ⓘ
support of UK overseas operations ⓘ support of coalition air campaigns ⓘ |
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: Voyager Description of subject: Voyager is the Royal Air Force’s multi-role tanker transport aircraft, providing air-to-air refuelling and strategic airlift capabilities.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
RAF Voyager KC2 aircraft