Airbus Voyager
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Airbus Voyager is a military air-to-air refuelling and transport aircraft used primarily by the Royal Air Force, based on the Airbus A330 platform.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Airbus Voyager canonical | 2 |
| Airbus Voyager KC2 | 2 |
| Airbus Voyager KC3 | 2 |
| Airbus Voyager KC | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T650079 — 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 Voyager Context triple: [ZZ, associatedWithAircraftType, Airbus Voyager]
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A.
Bombardier Voyager family
The Bombardier Voyager family is a series of high-speed diesel-electric multiple unit trains used for intercity passenger services in the United Kingdom.
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B.
Beechcraft King Air
The Beechcraft King Air is a family of twin-turboprop utility aircraft widely used around the world for military, government, and civilian transport, training, and special-mission roles.
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C.
Beechcraft 1900
The Beechcraft 1900 is a twin-engine turboprop regional airliner designed for short-haul passenger service, widely used by commuter and regional airlines around the world.
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D.
Boeing 747SP
The Boeing 747SP is a shortened, long-range variant of the Boeing 747 airliner, notable for its use in specialized roles such as NASA’s SOFIA airborne observatory.
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E.
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.
- 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 Voyager Target entity description: Airbus Voyager is a military air-to-air refuelling and transport aircraft used primarily by the Royal Air Force, based on the Airbus A330 platform.
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A.
Bombardier Voyager family
The Bombardier Voyager family is a series of high-speed diesel-electric multiple unit trains used for intercity passenger services in the United Kingdom.
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B.
Beechcraft King Air
The Beechcraft King Air is a family of twin-turboprop utility aircraft widely used around the world for military, government, and civilian transport, training, and special-mission roles.
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C.
Beechcraft 1900
The Beechcraft 1900 is a twin-engine turboprop regional airliner designed for short-haul passenger service, widely used by commuter and regional airlines around the world.
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D.
Boeing 747SP
The Boeing 747SP is a shortened, long-range variant of the Boeing 747 airliner, notable for its use in specialized roles such as NASA’s SOFIA airborne observatory.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
air-to-air refuelling aircraft
ⓘ
military transport aircraft ⓘ |
| aircraftFamily | Airbus A330 ⓘ |
| aircraftType | wide-body ⓘ |
| airframeOrigin |
Airbus A330-200
ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus A330
|
| alliance | NATO air-to-air refuelling capability (via UK contribution) ⓘ |
| base | RAF Brize Norton ⓘ |
| basedOn | Airbus A330 ⓘ |
| cargoCapability | palletised freight ⓘ |
| configuration | multi-role tanker transport ⓘ |
| contractor |
AirTanker consortium
ⓘ
linked to:
AirTanker Services
|
| countryOfOperator | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewCapacity | flight crew of 2 ⓘ |
| designFeature |
centreline refuelling capability
ⓘ
underwing refuelling pods ⓘ |
| engineManufacturer |
Rolls-Royce
ⓘ
linked to:
Rolls-Royce Limited
|
| engineModel | Rolls-Royce Trent 700 ⓘ |
| engineType | twin-engine turbofan ⓘ |
| fuelRole | tanker ⓘ |
| fuselageType | pressurised ⓘ |
| landingGear | tricycle landing gear ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
AirTanker
ⓘ
linked to:
AirTanker Services
Airbus ⓘ |
| medicalRole | aeromedical evacuation ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| operatorType | military ⓘ |
| originCountry | European Union ⓘ |
| passengerCapacity | approximately 291 passengers ⓘ |
| platform |
Airbus A330 MRTT family
ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus A330
|
| powerplantCount | 2 engines ⓘ |
| primaryRole | air-to-air refuelling ⓘ |
| programmeName |
Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft
ⓘ
linked to:
Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft programme
|
| refuellingMethod | hose-and-drogue ⓘ |
| registrationPrefix | ZZ330 series ⓘ |
| replaced |
Lockheed TriStar
ⓘ
linked to:
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
Vickers VC10 ⓘ
linked to:
RAF VC10
|
| role | VIP transport ⓘ |
| secondaryRole | strategic transport ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | 2012 ⓘ |
| tailConfiguration | conventional tail ⓘ |
| transportRole |
cargo transport
ⓘ
troop transport ⓘ |
| usedBy | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| usedFor |
air-to-air refuelling of fast jets
ⓘ
long-range flights ⓘ strategic airlift ⓘ |
| user |
No. 10 Squadron RAF
ⓘ
No. 101 Squadron RAF ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | low-wing monoplane ⓘ |
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 Voyager Description of subject: Airbus Voyager is a military air-to-air refuelling and transport aircraft used primarily by the Royal Air Force, based on the Airbus A330 platform.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.