Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield)
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Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield) is a historic, monumental airship hangar in Mountain View, California, renowned as one of the world’s largest freestanding structures and an iconic landmark of early U.S. naval aviation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield) canonical | 1 |
| Hangar One at Moffett Field | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1956312 — 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: Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield) Context triple: [Moffett Federal Airfield, hasHangar, Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield)]
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A.
Moffett Field, California
Moffett Field, California is a historic U.S. naval air station and aerospace hub in the San Francisco Bay Area, best known today as the site of NASA’s Ames Research Center.
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B.
Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base is a major U.S. Air Force installation in Southern California known as a primary site for flight testing, aerospace research, and historic aviation milestones.
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C.
Hangar Two
Hangar Two is a historic airship hangar located at Moffett Field in California, notable for its massive size and role in early U.S. naval and aviation history.
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D.
Crissy Army Airfield
Crissy Army Airfield was a former U.S. Army airfield located on the northern shore of San Francisco, later transformed into the recreational and restored natural area now known as Crissy Field.
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E.
Los Angeles Air Force Base
Los Angeles Air Force Base is a U.S. Space Force installation in El Segundo, California, that serves as a major center for space acquisition, development, and operations.
- 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: Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield) Target entity description: Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield) is a historic, monumental airship hangar in Mountain View, California, renowned as one of the world’s largest freestanding structures and an iconic landmark of early U.S. naval aviation.
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A.
Moffett Field, California
Moffett Field, California is a historic U.S. naval air station and aerospace hub in the San Francisco Bay Area, best known today as the site of NASA’s Ames Research Center.
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B.
Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base is a major U.S. Air Force installation in Southern California known as a primary site for flight testing, aerospace research, and historic aviation milestones.
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C.
Hangar Two
Hangar Two is a historic airship hangar located at Moffett Field in California, notable for its massive size and role in early U.S. naval and aviation history.
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D.
Crissy Army Airfield
Crissy Army Airfield was a former U.S. Army airfield located on the northern shore of San Francisco, later transformed into the recreational and restored natural area now known as Crissy Field.
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E.
Los Angeles Air Force Base
Los Angeles Air Force Base is a U.S. Space Force installation in El Segundo, California, that serves as a major center for space acquisition, development, and operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airship hangar
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freestanding structure ⓘ historic building ⓘ landmark ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | San Francisco Bay ⓘ |
| architecturalType | steel-framed hangar ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Moffett Federal Airfield operations
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U.S. naval aviation history ⓘ early 20th-century airship development ⓘ |
| category |
U.S. Navy airship facilities
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historic aircraft hangars in the United States ⓘ military aviation infrastructure ⓘ |
| constructedFor |
United States Navy
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surface form:
U.S. Navy
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasAlternativeName |
Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield)
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surface form:
Hangar One at Moffett Field
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| hasName | Hangar One ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
California Historical Landmark
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National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Mountain View ⓘ
surface form:
Mountain View, California
Santa Clara County ⓘ
surface form:
Santa Clara County, California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| location |
Moffett Field, California
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surface form:
Moffett Federal Airfield
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| material |
metal cladding
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steel ⓘ |
| near |
Ames Research Center
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surface form:
NASA Ames Research Center main facilities
Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive streamlined shape
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massive clear-span interior ⓘ role in U.S. Navy airship program ⓘ |
| operator |
Ames Research Center
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surface form:
NASA Ames Research Center
NASA ⓘ
surface form:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States Navy ⓘ |
| ownedBy | United States government ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ames Research Center
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surface form:
Ames Research Center campus
Moffett Field, California ⓘ
surface form:
Moffett Field Historic District
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| roofType | arched roof ⓘ |
| significance |
iconic landmark of early U.S. naval aviation
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one of the world’s largest freestanding structures ⓘ |
| usedFor |
aeronautical research support
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airship operations ⓘ housing rigid airships ⓘ |
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: Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield) Description of subject: Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield) is a historic, monumental airship hangar in Mountain View, California, renowned as one of the world’s largest freestanding structures and an iconic landmark of early U.S. naval aviation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Moffett Federal Airfield
Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield)
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hasAlternativeName
→
Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield)
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this entity surface form:
Hangar One at Moffett Field