Al Maktoum International Airport
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Al Maktoum International Airport is a major airport in the United Arab Emirates designed to become one of the world’s largest air transport hubs.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Al Maktoum International Airport canonical | 19 |
| Dubai World Central | 2 |
| Dubai World Central Airport | 1 |
| Dubai World Central – Al Maktoum International Airport | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T145649 — 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: Al Maktoum International Airport Context triple: [Dubai, hasAirport, Al Maktoum International Airport]
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A.
Dubai International Airport
Dubai International Airport is a major global aviation hub in the United Arab Emirates, known for its extensive international connections and high passenger traffic.
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B.
Borg El Arab Airport
Borg El Arab Airport is the main international airport serving the Alexandria region in northern Egypt, handling both domestic and international flights.
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C.
Hajj Terminal, King Abdulaziz International Airport
Hajj Terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport is a vast, tent-like airport terminal in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, designed to handle millions of Muslim pilgrims traveling to Mecca for the annual Hajj.
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D.
Orly Airport
Orly Airport is a major international airport serving Paris, France, located south of the city and handling a large share of its domestic and European flights.
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E.
Dubai Marina
Dubai Marina is a modern, upscale waterfront district in Dubai known for its high-rise skyline, luxury residences, and vibrant dining and leisure scene along an artificial canal.
- 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: Al Maktoum International Airport Target entity description: Al Maktoum International Airport is a major airport in the United Arab Emirates designed to become one of the world’s largest air transport hubs.
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A.
Dubai International Airport
Dubai International Airport is a major global aviation hub in the United Arab Emirates, known for its extensive international connections and high passenger traffic.
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B.
Borg El Arab Airport
Borg El Arab Airport is the main international airport serving the Alexandria region in northern Egypt, handling both domestic and international flights.
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C.
Hajj Terminal, King Abdulaziz International Airport
Hajj Terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport is a vast, tent-like airport terminal in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, designed to handle millions of Muslim pilgrims traveling to Mecca for the annual Hajj.
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D.
Orly Airport
Orly Airport is a major international airport serving Paris, France, located south of the city and handling a large share of its domestic and European flights.
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E.
Dubai Marina
Dubai Marina is a modern, upscale waterfront district in Dubai known for its high-rise skyline, luxury residences, and vibrant dining and leisure scene along an artificial canal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
international airport ⓘ transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Al Maktoum International Airport
ⓘ
surface form:
Dubai World Central Airport
Al Maktoum International Airport ⓘ
surface form:
Dubai World Central – Al Maktoum International Airport
|
| cityServed | Dubai ⓘ |
| country | United Arab Emirates ⓘ |
| designedCapacityType |
very high cargo capacity
ⓘ
very high passenger capacity ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
airports in the United Arab Emirates
ⓘ
buildings and structures in Dubai ⓘ transport in Dubai ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
cargo operations
ⓘ
logistics hub ⓘ passenger operations ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType |
cargo terminals
ⓘ
passenger terminal ⓘ runways ⓘ |
| hubFor | cargo airlines ⓘ |
| IATACode | DWC ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | OMDW ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dubai
ⓘ
Dubai South ⓘ Emirate of Dubai ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Jebel Ali Free Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Jebel Ali
|
| locatedOnContinent | Asia ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum ⓘ |
| nearbyFacility |
Port of Jebel Ali
ⓘ
surface form:
Jebel Ali Port
|
| openingDate | 2010-06-27 ⓘ |
| operator | Dubai Airports Company ⓘ |
| owner | Government of Dubai ⓘ |
| partOf |
Al Maktoum International Airport
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Dubai World Central
|
| passengerOperationsStartDate | 2013-10-27 ⓘ |
| plannedRole |
major cargo hub
ⓘ
major global air transport hub ⓘ major passenger hub ⓘ |
| primaryRunwayDesignation | 12/30 ⓘ |
| region | Middle East ⓘ |
| runwayLengthMeters | 4500 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servesAs | secondary airport for Dubai ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Dubai
ⓘ
surface form:
Dubai metropolitan area
United Arab Emirates ⓘ |
| strategicPurpose |
anchor development of Dubai South urban area
ⓘ
support growth beyond Dubai International Airport capacity ⓘ |
| timeZone | UTC+04:00 ⓘ |
| transportMode | air transport ⓘ |
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: Al Maktoum International Airport Description of subject: Al Maktoum International Airport is a major airport in the United Arab Emirates designed to become one of the world’s largest air transport hubs.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Al Maktoum International Airport
→
partOf
→
Al Maktoum International Airport
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Dubai World Central
this entity surface form:
Dubai World Central – Al Maktoum International Airport
this entity surface form:
Dubai World Central Airport
this entity surface form:
Dubai World Central