Canadair CL-215
E91506
The Canadair CL-215 is a twin-engine amphibious water bomber aircraft designed primarily for aerial firefighting and widely used around the world for combating wildfires.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canadair CL-215 canonical | 4 |
| Canadair CL-415 | 2 |
| Bombardier CL-415 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T766811 — 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: Canadair CL-215 Context triple: [Spanish Air Force, uses, Canadair CL-215]
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A.
Cessna O-2 Skymaster
The Cessna O-2 Skymaster is a military twin-boom, push-pull configuration aircraft used primarily by the U.S. Air Force for forward air control and reconnaissance during the Vietnam War.
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B.
Cessna 208 Caravan
The Cessna 208 Caravan is a single-engine turboprop utility aircraft widely used for regional passenger service, cargo transport, and short takeoff and landing operations.
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C.
C-27J Spartan aircraft
The C-27J Spartan aircraft is a twin-engine tactical military transport plane known for its short takeoff and landing capability, rugged design, and versatile cargo and troop-carrying roles.
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D.
Lockheed P-3 Orion
The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a four-engine turboprop maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft widely used by navies and air forces around the world during the Cold War and beyond.
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E.
Sully Wing
Sully Wing is one of the main historic wings of the Louvre Museum in Paris, housing collections such as ancient Near Eastern antiquities and French paintings.
- 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: Canadair CL-215 Target entity description: The Canadair CL-215 is a twin-engine amphibious water bomber aircraft designed primarily for aerial firefighting and widely used around the world for combating wildfires.
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A.
Cessna O-2 Skymaster
The Cessna O-2 Skymaster is a military twin-boom, push-pull configuration aircraft used primarily by the U.S. Air Force for forward air control and reconnaissance during the Vietnam War.
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B.
Cessna 208 Caravan
The Cessna 208 Caravan is a single-engine turboprop utility aircraft widely used for regional passenger service, cargo transport, and short takeoff and landing operations.
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C.
C-27J Spartan aircraft
The C-27J Spartan aircraft is a twin-engine tactical military transport plane known for its short takeoff and landing capability, rugged design, and versatile cargo and troop-carrying roles.
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D.
Lockheed P-3 Orion
The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a four-engine turboprop maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft widely used by navies and air forces around the world during the Cold War and beyond.
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E.
Sully Wing
Sully Wing is one of the main historic wings of the Louvre Museum in Paris, housing collections such as ancient Near Eastern antiquities and French paintings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
amphibious aircraft
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firefighting aircraft ⓘ water bomber ⓘ |
| amphibiousCapability | yes ⓘ |
| canOperateFrom |
land
ⓘ
water ⓘ |
| canScoopWaterInFlight | yes ⓘ |
| configuration | twin-engine ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| crew | 2 ⓘ |
| engineType | piston engine ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1969 ⓘ |
| firstFlightDate | 1967-10-23 ⓘ |
| fuselageType | flying boat ⓘ |
| height | 8.98 m ⓘ |
| ICAORole | firefighting amphibian ⓘ |
| introduced | 1969 ⓘ |
| length | 19.82 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Canadair ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 300 km/h ⓘ |
| maximumTakeoffWeight | 19,731 kg ⓘ |
| numberBuilt | 125 ⓘ |
| operator |
Canadian provinces
ⓘ
Croatian Air Force ⓘ Government of Quebec ⓘ Hellenic Air Force ⓘ Royal Moroccan Air Force ⓘ Spanish Air Force ⓘ Sécurité Civile (France) ⓘ
linked to:
Ministry of the Interior of France
Turkish Air Force ⓘ |
| powerplant | 2 × Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial engines ⓘ |
| primaryRole | aerial firefighting ⓘ |
| primaryUse | water bombing ⓘ |
| productionEnd | 1990 ⓘ |
| productionStart | 1969 ⓘ |
| propulsion | twin radial piston engines ⓘ |
| range | about 2150 km ⓘ |
| scoopRunDistance | about 1.6 km ⓘ |
| scoopTime | about 12 seconds ⓘ |
| status |
in service
ⓘ
out of production ⓘ |
| successor |
Bombardier CL-415
ⓘ
linked to:
Canadair CL-215
|
| usedFor | combating wildfires ⓘ |
| usedWorldwide | yes ⓘ |
| variant | CL-215T ⓘ |
| waterCapacity |
1436 US gallons
ⓘ
5435 litres ⓘ |
| wingConfiguration | high-wing ⓘ |
| wingspan | 28.60 m ⓘ |
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: Canadair CL-215 Description of subject: The Canadair CL-215 is a twin-engine amphibious water bomber aircraft designed primarily for aerial firefighting and widely used around the world for combating wildfires.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Canadair CL-215
linked to: Canadair CL-215