SAN VORTAC
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SAN VORTAC is a ground-based radio navigation facility (combining VOR and TACAN) serving the San Diego International Airport area for en-route and approach guidance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SAN VORTAC canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2088505 — 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: SAN VORTAC Context triple: [KSAN, hasNavigationAid, SAN VORTAC]
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A.
Vinton
Vinton is the given name of Vinton Cerf, an American computer scientist widely recognized as one of the "fathers of the Internet."
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B.
Vanne
Vanne is a river in north-central France that serves as a tributary of the Yonne.
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C.
Faventia
Faventia is the ancient Roman name for the Italian city of Faenza, historically known as an important settlement in northern Italy.
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D.
VGTZ station
VGTZ station is a stop on the Volgograd Metrotram system in Volgograd, Russia, serving the nearby Volgograd Tractor Plant (VGTZ) industrial area.
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E.
Navotas
Navotas is a coastal city in the Philippines known as part of Metro Manila’s fishing and fishport hub.
- 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: SAN VORTAC Target entity description: SAN VORTAC is a ground-based radio navigation facility (combining VOR and TACAN) serving the San Diego International Airport area for en-route and approach guidance.
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A.
Vinton
Vinton is the given name of Vinton Cerf, an American computer scientist widely recognized as one of the "fathers of the Internet."
-
B.
Vanne
Vanne is a river in north-central France that serves as a tributary of the Yonne.
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C.
Faventia
Faventia is the ancient Roman name for the Italian city of Faenza, historically known as an important settlement in northern Italy.
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D.
VGTZ station
VGTZ station is a stop on the Volgograd Metrotram system in Volgograd, Russia, serving the nearby Volgograd Tractor Plant (VGTZ) industrial area.
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E.
Navotas
Navotas is a coastal city in the Philippines known as part of Metro Manila’s fishing and fishport hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
VORTAC
ⓘ
ground-based navigation facility ⓘ radio navigation aid ⓘ |
| associatedWithAirport |
KSAN
ⓘ
San Diego International Airport ⓘ |
| frequencyBand |
UHF
ⓘ
VHF ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
TACAN
ⓘ
VOR ⓘ |
| locatedInCity | San Diego ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInState |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| navigationType | azimuth and distance measuring ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Federal Aviation Administration ⓘ |
| partOf |
National Airspace System
ⓘ
surface form:
United States National Airspace System
|
| provides |
bearing information
ⓘ
distance information ⓘ |
| providesServiceTo |
IFR traffic
ⓘ
VFR traffic ⓘ |
| role |
approach fix
ⓘ
en-route fix ⓘ terminal area navigation aid ⓘ |
| servesAirport | San Diego International Airport ⓘ |
| supportsNavigationSystem |
TACAN
ⓘ
VOR ⓘ VOR/DME-compatible navigation ⓘ |
| supportsProcedureType |
arrival procedures
ⓘ
departure procedures ⓘ instrument approach procedures ⓘ |
| usedBy |
civil aircraft
ⓘ
military aircraft ⓘ |
| usedFor |
approach guidance
ⓘ
en-route navigation ⓘ |
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: SAN VORTAC Description of subject: SAN VORTAC is a ground-based radio navigation facility (combining VOR and TACAN) serving the San Diego International Airport area for en-route and approach guidance.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.