EGVA
E166815
EGVA is the ICAO airport code for RAF Fairford, a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England used primarily by the United States Air Force for bomber and airlift operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| EGVA canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1468503 — 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: EGVA Context triple: [RAF Fairford, ICAOCode, EGVA]
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A.
EGVN
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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B.
EGA
EGA is the common abbreviation for the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor emblem that symbolizes the United States Marine Corps.
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C.
EGAA
EGAA is the ICAO airport code assigned to Belfast International Airport in Northern Ireland.
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D.
EGGW
EGGW is the ICAO airport code for London Luton Airport, a major international airport serving the London area in the United Kingdom.
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E.
EUG
EUG is the IATA airport code for Mahlon Sweet Field, the primary commercial airport serving Eugene and the surrounding region in western Oregon, United States.
- 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: EGVA Target entity description: EGVA is the ICAO airport code for RAF Fairford, a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England used primarily by the United States Air Force for bomber and airlift operations.
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A.
EGVN
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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B.
EGA
EGA is the common abbreviation for the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor emblem that symbolizes the United States Marine Corps.
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C.
EGAA
EGAA is the ICAO airport code assigned to Belfast International Airport in Northern Ireland.
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D.
EGGW
EGGW is the ICAO airport code for London Luton Airport, a major international airport serving the London area in the United Kingdom.
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E.
EUG
EUG is the IATA airport code for Mahlon Sweet Field, the primary commercial airport serving Eugene and the surrounding region in western Oregon, United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Air Force station
ⓘ
airport ⓘ military air base ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| elevation_ft | 286 ⓘ |
| elevation_m | 87 ⓘ |
| hasBasedAircraftType |
airlift aircraft (temporary deployments)
ⓘ
strategic bombers (temporary deployments) ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Royal Air Force stations in Gloucestershire
ⓘ
United States Air Force bases in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasHostNation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasIataCode | FFD ⓘ |
| hasIcaoCode | EGVA self-link ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryDesignation | RAF Fairford ⓘ |
| hasParking | large aircraft aprons ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryUserNation |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasRole |
contingency airfield
ⓘ
forward operating location for USAF bombers ⓘ |
| hasRunway | 09/27 ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | concrete ⓘ |
| hasType | military ⓘ |
| ICAOCodeFor | RAF Fairford ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cotswold District
ⓘ
England ⓘ Fairford ⓘ Gloucestershire ⓘ RAF Fairford ⓘ southwest England ⓘ
surface form:
South West England
|
| near |
Fairford
ⓘ
surface form:
Fairford town
Swindon ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf | RAF airfield network ⓘ |
| runwayLength_09_27_ft | 9995 ⓘ |
| runwayLength_09_27_m | 3046 ⓘ |
| supportsAircraft |
B-1B Lancer
ⓘ
B-2 Spirit ⓘ Boeing B-52 Stratofortress ⓘ
surface form:
B-52 Stratofortress
C-17 Globemaster III ⓘ C-5 Galaxy ⓘ |
| supportsEvent | Royal International Air Tattoo ⓘ |
| timezone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| usedBy |
United States Air Force
ⓘ
United States Air Forces in Europe ⓘ
surface form:
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa
|
| usedFor |
airlift operations
ⓘ
bomber operations ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
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: EGVA Description of subject: EGVA is the ICAO airport code for RAF Fairford, a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England used primarily by the United States Air Force for bomber and airlift operations.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.