EGVN
E129219
EGVN is the ICAO airport code for RAF Brize Norton, a major Royal Air Force transport and air-to-air refuelling base in Oxfordshire, England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| EGVN canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1121159 — 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: EGVN Context triple: [RAF Brize Norton, ICAOAirportCode, EGVN]
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A.
EGNS
EGNS is the ICAO airport code for Isle of Man Airport, the main civil airport serving the Isle of Man.
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B.
VGN
VGN (Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg) is the public transport association that coordinates and manages integrated ticketing and services across the greater Nuremberg metropolitan area in Germany.
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C.
EGKK
EGKK is the ICAO airport code for London Gatwick Airport, a major international airport serving the London metropolitan area in the United Kingdom.
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D.
EG
EG is the standard abbreviation for the Egmont Group, an international network of Financial Intelligence Units that collaborates to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
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E.
GN
GN is a fast, meta-build system tool used primarily by the Chromium project to generate build files for Ninja.
- 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: EGVN Target entity description: EGVN is the ICAO airport code for RAF Brize Norton, a major Royal Air Force transport and air-to-air refuelling base in Oxfordshire, England.
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A.
EGNS
EGNS is the ICAO airport code for Isle of Man Airport, the main civil airport serving the Isle of Man.
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B.
VGN
VGN (Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg) is the public transport association that coordinates and manages integrated ticketing and services across the greater Nuremberg metropolitan area in Germany.
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C.
EGKK
EGKK is the ICAO airport code for London Gatwick Airport, a major international airport serving the London metropolitan area in the United Kingdom.
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D.
EG
EG is the standard abbreviation for the Egmont Group, an international network of Financial Intelligence Units that collaborates to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
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E.
GN
GN is a fast, meta-build system tool used primarily by the Chromium project to generate build files for Ninja.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ICAO airport code
ⓘ
Royal Air Force station ⓘ airport code ⓘ military air base ⓘ |
| airportType | military airport ⓘ |
| associatedBase | RAF Brize Norton ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
air transport
ⓘ
air-to-air refuelling ⓘ |
| country |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| elevation | 288 ft ⓘ |
| garrison | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
air-to-air refuelling operations
ⓘ
strategic airlift ⓘ tactical airlift ⓘ |
| hasIATAcode | BZZ ⓘ |
| hasRole |
largest RAF station by number of aircraft
ⓘ
main RAF strategic transport base ⓘ |
| hostsAircraftType |
Airbus A400M Atlas
ⓘ
Airbus Voyager ⓘ
surface form:
Airbus Voyager KC2
Airbus Voyager ⓘ
surface form:
Airbus Voyager KC3
C-17 Globemaster III ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
|
| IATAcode | BZZ ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | EGVN self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| identifies | RAF Brize Norton ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brize Norton
ⓘ
Brize Norton ⓘ England ⓘ England ⓘ Oxfordshire ⓘ Oxfordshire ⓘ |
| near |
Carterton
ⓘ
Witney ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf |
Royal Air Force Air Command
ⓘ
surface form:
RAF Air Command
|
| primaryUser | RAF Air Mobility Force ⓘ |
| region | South East England ⓘ |
| role |
air transport hub
ⓘ
air-to-air refuelling base ⓘ |
| runwayDesignation | 08/26 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| supportsOperationType |
aeromedical evacuation
ⓘ
cargo transport ⓘ troop transport ⓘ |
| timezone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| usedBy | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| usesRunway |
runway 08
ⓘ
runway 26 ⓘ |
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: EGVN Description of subject: EGVN is the ICAO airport code for RAF Brize Norton, a major Royal Air Force transport and air-to-air refuelling base in Oxfordshire, England.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
RAF Brize Norton