DME
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DME is a radio navigation system used in aviation to provide pilots with precise distance information from an aircraft to a ground-based station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DME canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2304616 — 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: DME Context triple: [Dabolim Airport, hasNavigationAid, DME]
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A.
DME
DME is the IATA airport code for Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport, one of the major airports serving the Russian capital.
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B.
DHE
DHE is the Massachusetts state agency responsible for coordinating and overseeing public higher education institutions and policies.
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C.
MDE
MDE is the state agency in Maryland responsible for protecting and restoring the environment and public health through regulation, monitoring, and enforcement of environmental laws.
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D.
DDM
DDM was the ISO 4217 currency code for the East German mark, the official currency of the former German Democratic Republic.
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E.
BdM
BdM is the central bank of Mexico, responsible for maintaining the country’s monetary stability and issuing its currency.
- 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: DME Target entity description: DME is a radio navigation system used in aviation to provide pilots with precise distance information from an aircraft to a ground-based station.
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A.
DME
DME is the IATA airport code for Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport, one of the major airports serving the Russian capital.
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B.
DHE
DHE is the Massachusetts state agency responsible for coordinating and overseeing public higher education institutions and policies.
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C.
MDE
MDE is the state agency in Maryland responsible for protecting and restoring the environment and public health through regulation, monitoring, and enforcement of environmental laws.
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D.
DDM
DDM was the ISO 4217 currency code for the East German mark, the official currency of the former German Democratic Republic.
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E.
BdM
BdM is the central bank of Mexico, responsible for maintaining the country’s monetary stability and issuing its currency.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aviation navigation aid
ⓘ
radio navigation system ⓘ |
| alsoProvides |
ground speed information
ⓘ
time-to-station information ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
TACAN
ⓘ
VOR ⓘ VORTAC ⓘ |
| basedOn |
time delay measurement
ⓘ
two-way radio ranging ⓘ |
| classifiedAs | ground-based navigation aid ⓘ |
| complements |
ILS approaches
ⓘ
VOR navigation ⓘ |
| frequencyBand | UHF ⓘ |
| fullName | Distance Measuring Equipment ⓘ |
| installedAt | ground station ⓘ |
| installedOn | aircraft ⓘ |
| measurementType | slant range ⓘ |
| operatesWith |
airborne interrogator
ⓘ
ground transponder ⓘ |
| outputDisplayedOn | cockpit instruments ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | providing slant range distance information ⓘ |
| providesInformation | distance from aircraft to ground-based station ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | ICAO standards ⓘ |
| requires | line-of-sight propagation ⓘ |
| roleIn | conventional ground-based navigation infrastructure ⓘ |
| supports |
area navigation (RNAV)
ⓘ
en route navigation ⓘ instrument approaches ⓘ terminal area navigation ⓘ |
| unitOfMeasurement | nautical miles ⓘ |
| usedBy |
civil aircraft
ⓘ
military aircraft ⓘ |
| usedIn | aviation ⓘ |
| uses | radio signals ⓘ |
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: DME Description of subject: DME is a radio navigation system used in aviation to provide pilots with precise distance information from an aircraft to a ground-based station.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.