Mackay Airport
E157119
Mackay Airport is a regional Australian airport in Queensland that serves the city of Mackay with domestic flights and supports the surrounding mining and tourism industries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mackay Airport canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1345572 — 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: Mackay Airport Context triple: [Mackay, hasAirport, Mackay Airport]
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A.
Cairns Airport
Cairns Airport is a major international and domestic airport in Far North Queensland, Australia, serving as the primary gateway to Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef region.
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B.
Bundaberg Airport
Bundaberg Airport is a regional Australian airport serving the city of Bundaberg in Queensland, providing domestic flights and access to the surrounding area.
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C.
Sunshine Coast Airport
Sunshine Coast Airport is a regional Australian airport serving the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, providing domestic flights and limited international connections for the surrounding coastal communities.
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D.
Townsville Airport
Townsville Airport is a regional Australian airport in Queensland that serves the city of Townsville with both civilian and military aviation operations.
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E.
Coffs Harbour Airport
Coffs Harbour Airport is a regional airport serving the coastal city of Coffs Harbour in New South Wales, Australia, providing domestic flights and access to the Mid North Coast region.
- 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: Mackay Airport Target entity description: Mackay Airport is a regional Australian airport in Queensland that serves the city of Mackay with domestic flights and supports the surrounding mining and tourism industries.
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A.
Cairns Airport
Cairns Airport is a major international and domestic airport in Far North Queensland, Australia, serving as the primary gateway to Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef region.
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B.
Bundaberg Airport
Bundaberg Airport is a regional Australian airport serving the city of Bundaberg in Queensland, providing domestic flights and access to the surrounding area.
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C.
Sunshine Coast Airport
Sunshine Coast Airport is a regional Australian airport serving the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, providing domestic flights and limited international connections for the surrounding coastal communities.
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D.
Townsville Airport
Townsville Airport is a regional Australian airport in Queensland that serves the city of Townsville with both civilian and military aviation operations.
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E.
Coffs Harbour Airport
Coffs Harbour Airport is a regional airport serving the coastal city of Coffs Harbour in New South Wales, Australia, providing domestic flights and access to the Mid North Coast region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
regional airport ⓘ |
| cityServed |
Mackay, Queensland
ⓘ
surface form:
Mackay
|
| continent | Australia ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
19 metres
ⓘ
62 feet ⓘ |
| flightType | domestic flights ⓘ |
| hasAirlineService |
Jetstar Airways
ⓘ
QantasLink ⓘ Virgin Australia ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid | instrument approach facilities ⓘ |
| hasPassengerTerminal | yes ⓘ |
| hasRunway | Runway 14/32 ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection | road access to Mackay CBD ⓘ |
| hasUse |
charter flights
ⓘ
commercial aviation ⓘ general aviation ⓘ |
| IATAcode | MKY ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | YBMK ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Australia
ⓘ
Mackay, Queensland ⓘ
surface form:
Mackay
Queensland ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Coral Sea coastline
ⓘ
surface form:
Coral Sea coast
|
| operatorType | civil ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Bowen Basin
ⓘ
Central Queensland ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
1983 metres
ⓘ
6506 feet ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves | city of Mackay ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
mining industry
ⓘ
tourism industry ⓘ |
| servesRegion | Mackay Region ⓘ |
| state | Queensland ⓘ |
| supportsActivity |
fly-in fly-out operations
ⓘ
tourist travel to Whitsunday region ⓘ |
| supportsSector |
coal mining
ⓘ
resource sector ⓘ tourism sector ⓘ |
| timeZone |
AEST
ⓘ
UTC+10 ⓘ |
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: Mackay Airport Description of subject: Mackay Airport is a regional Australian airport in Queensland that serves the city of Mackay with domestic flights and supports the surrounding mining and tourism industries.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.