Faaʻa International Airport
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Faaʻa International Airport is the main international gateway to Tahiti and French Polynesia, serving as the primary hub for long-haul flights to and from the region.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Faaʻa International Airport canonical | 2 |
| Aéroport international de Tahiti Faaʻa | 1 |
| Faa'a International Airport | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1559241 — 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: Faaʻa International Airport Context triple: [Tahiti, hasAirport, Faaʻa International Airport]
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A.
Fitiuta Airport
Fitiuta Airport is a small public airport serving the island of Taʻū in American Samoa, providing essential air connectivity for local residents and visitors.
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B.
Mataveri International Airport
Mataveri International Airport is the remote international airport serving Easter Island, known as one of the most isolated airports in the world and a key link between the island and mainland Chile.
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C.
Tuuta Airport
Tuuta Airport is the main airfield serving New Zealand’s remote Chatham Islands, providing vital passenger and cargo connections with the mainland.
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D.
Pearls Airport
Pearls Airport is a former airfield in Grenada that gained historical significance as a key objective seized by U.S. forces during the 1983 invasion known as Operation Urgent Fury.
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E.
Darwin International Airport
Darwin International Airport is the main domestic and international airport serving the city of Darwin and the Northern Territory in northern Australia.
- 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: Faaʻa International Airport Target entity description: Faaʻa International Airport is the main international gateway to Tahiti and French Polynesia, serving as the primary hub for long-haul flights to and from the region.
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A.
Fitiuta Airport
Fitiuta Airport is a small public airport serving the island of Taʻū in American Samoa, providing essential air connectivity for local residents and visitors.
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B.
Mataveri International Airport
Mataveri International Airport is the remote international airport serving Easter Island, known as one of the most isolated airports in the world and a key link between the island and mainland Chile.
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C.
Tuuta Airport
Tuuta Airport is the main airfield serving New Zealand’s remote Chatham Islands, providing vital passenger and cargo connections with the mainland.
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D.
Pearls Airport
Pearls Airport is a former airfield in Grenada that gained historical significance as a key objective seized by U.S. forces during the 1983 invasion known as Operation Urgent Fury.
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E.
Darwin International Airport
Darwin International Airport is the main domestic and international airport serving the city of Darwin and the Northern Territory in northern Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international airport
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ |
| builtOn | reclaimed land on coral reef ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| distanceFromCityCentre | about 5 km southwest of Papeete ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
2 metres
ⓘ
7 feet ⓘ |
| handlesTrafficType |
cargo traffic
ⓘ
domestic passenger traffic ⓘ international passenger traffic ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
overwater runway sections
ⓘ
single main runway ⓘ |
| hasPassengerTerminal |
domestic terminal
ⓘ
international terminal ⓘ |
| hasRunway | Runway 04/22 ⓘ |
| IATAcode | PPT ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | NTAA ⓘ |
| languageOfNativeName | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Faaʻa
ⓘ
French Polynesia ⓘ Society Islands ⓘ Tahiti ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Faaʻa International Airport
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Aéroport international de Tahiti Faaʻa
|
| near |
Papeete
ⓘ
surface form:
Papeete city centre
|
| opened | 1960 ⓘ |
| operator | Direction de l’Aviation Civile de Polynésie française ⓘ |
| role | primary hub for long-haul flights to and from French Polynesia ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
11220 feet
ⓘ
3420 metres ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves | Papeete ⓘ |
| servesAirline |
Air France
ⓘ
Air New Zealand ⓘ Air Tahiti ⓘ Air Tahiti Nui ⓘ Aircalin ⓘ French Bee ⓘ Hawaiian Airlines ⓘ LATAM Airlines Group ⓘ
surface form:
LATAM Airlines
United Airlines ⓘ |
| servesAs |
main international gateway to French Polynesia
ⓘ
main international gateway to Tahiti ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
French Polynesia
ⓘ
South Pacific ⓘ |
| timeZone | UTC−10:00 ⓘ |
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: Faaʻa International Airport Description of subject: Faaʻa International Airport is the main international gateway to Tahiti and French Polynesia, serving as the primary hub for long-haul flights to and from the region.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Aéroport international de Tahiti Faaʻa
this entity surface form:
Faa'a International Airport