Melsbroek Air Base
E246980
Melsbroek Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield near Brussels that serves as the primary hub for the Belgian Air Component’s transport operations.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Melsbroek | 2 |
| Melsbroek Air Base canonical | 2 |
| Melsbroek, Belgium | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2243063 — 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: Melsbroek Air Base Context triple: [15th Air Transport Wing, garrison, Melsbroek Air Base]
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A.
Kleine-Brogel Air Base
Kleine-Brogel Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield known for hosting fighter aircraft operations and reportedly storing U.S. nuclear weapons under NATO arrangements.
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B.
Belgian military airfield network
The Belgian military airfield network is a system of air bases and related aviation facilities used by the Belgian Armed Forces for defense, training, and operational support.
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C.
Beauvechain Air Base
Beauvechain Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield that serves as one of the primary operational and training bases of the Belgian Air Force.
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D.
Florennes Air Base
Florennes Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield in Wallonia that serves as one of the country’s principal fighter bases and hosts NATO operations.
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E.
Zaventem
Zaventem is a municipality in the Flemish Brabant province of Belgium, best known internationally as the site of Brussels Airport.
- 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: Melsbroek Air Base Target entity description: Melsbroek Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield near Brussels that serves as the primary hub for the Belgian Air Component’s transport operations.
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A.
Kleine-Brogel Air Base
Kleine-Brogel Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield known for hosting fighter aircraft operations and reportedly storing U.S. nuclear weapons under NATO arrangements.
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B.
Belgian military airfield network
The Belgian military airfield network is a system of air bases and related aviation facilities used by the Belgian Armed Forces for defense, training, and operational support.
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C.
Beauvechain Air Base
Beauvechain Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield that serves as one of the primary operational and training bases of the Belgian Air Force.
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D.
Florennes Air Base
Florennes Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield in Wallonia that serves as one of the country’s principal fighter bases and hosts NATO operations.
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E.
Zaventem
Zaventem is a municipality in the Flemish Brabant province of Belgium, best known internationally as the site of Brussels Airport.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
military air base ⓘ |
| country | Belgium ⓘ |
| hasApron | military apron north of civilian terminal area ⓘ |
| hasElevation |
184 feet
ⓘ
56 meters ⓘ |
| hasFunction | base for Belgian government aircraft fleet ⓘ |
| hasRole | primary transport hub of Belgian Air Component ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
07L/25R
ⓘ
07R/25L ⓘ |
| IATAcode | BRU ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | EBBR ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Flemish Brabant
ⓘ
Melsbroek Air Base self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Melsbroek
|
| locatedInContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| locatedInMunicipality | Steenokkerzeel ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Flemish Region ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Brussels, Belgium
ⓘ
surface form:
Brussels
|
| operator |
Belgian Air Force
ⓘ
surface form:
Belgian Air Component
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| partOf | Belgian Armed Forces ⓘ |
| primaryUser | 15th Air Transport Wing ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves | Belgian Air Component transport operations ⓘ |
| servesCity |
Brussels, Belgium
ⓘ
surface form:
Brussels
|
| sharesRunwaysWith | Brussels Airport ⓘ |
| usedFor |
VIP transport
ⓘ
government flights ⓘ military transport aviation ⓘ |
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: Melsbroek Air Base Description of subject: Melsbroek Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield near Brussels that serves as the primary hub for the Belgian Air Component’s transport operations.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Melsbroek, Belgium
this entity surface form:
Melsbroek
this entity surface form:
Melsbroek