Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport

E28506

international airport transport infrastructure

Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport is Lebanon’s main international gateway, serving as the primary airport for Beirut and the country’s largest and busiest aviation hub.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport canonical	15
Beirut International Airport	4
Rafic Hariri International Airport	3
Beirut Airport	2
Beirut Air Base	1
Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	international airport ⓘ transport infrastructure ⓘ
cityServed	Beirut ⓘ
country	Lebanon ⓘ
elevation	27 metres ⓘ 87 feet ⓘ
formerlyKnownAs	Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Beirut International Airport
hasAlternateName	Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ surface form: Beirut Airport
hasAlternateSpelling	Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport
hasCustoms	yes ⓘ
hasFunction	cargo transport ⓘ civil aviation ⓘ passenger transport ⓘ
hasImmigration	yes ⓘ
hasNavigationAid	NDB ⓘ VOR/DME ⓘ instrument landing system ⓘ
hasRunway	Runway 03/21 ⓘ Runway 16/34 ⓘ Runway 17/35 ⓘ
hasSecurityRole	controlled by Lebanese Armed Forces and security agencies ⓘ
hasTerminal	Cargo terminal ⓘ Passenger terminal ⓘ
IATAcode	BEY ⓘ
ICAOcode	OLBA ⓘ
isBusiestAirportIn	Lebanon ⓘ
isLargestAirportIn	Lebanon ⓘ
isMemberOf	international civil aviation network ⓘ
isPrimaryAirportOf	Lebanon ⓘ
locatedIn	Asia ⓘ Beirut ⓘ Lebanon ⓘ Middle East ⓘ Mount Lebanon Governorate ⓘ
namedAfter	Rafic Hariri ⓘ
nearbyWaterBody	Mediterranean Sea ⓘ
opened	1954 ⓘ
operator	Directorate General of Civil Aviation (Lebanon) ⓘ
owner	Government of Lebanon ⓘ
regionServed	Levant region ⓘ surface form: Levant
runwaySurface	asphalt ⓘ
serves	Beirut ⓘ
servesAsBaseFor	Lebanese Air Transport companies ⓘ
servesAsHubFor	MEA Cargo ⓘ Middle East Airlines ⓘ
servesAsPrimaryGatewayFor	international flights to and from Lebanon ⓘ
timezone	Eastern European Time ⓘ
usesDaylightSavingTime	Eastern European Summer Time ⓘ

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: Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport
Description of subject: Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport is Lebanon’s main international gateway, serving as the primary airport for Beirut and the country’s largest and busiest aviation hub.

Referenced by (26)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Beirut → hasAirport → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport → formerlyKnownAs → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Beirut International Airport

Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport → hasAlternateName → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

this entity surface form: Beirut Airport

Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport → hasAlternateSpelling → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport

Middle East Airlines → hub → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

Middle East Airlines → operatesFromAirport → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

Middle East Airlines → hasMainBase → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

Multinational Force in Lebanon → headquarters → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

this entity surface form: Beirut International Airport

Rafic Hariri → commemoratedBy → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

this entity surface form: Rafic Hariri International Airport

1983 Beirut barracks bombings → location → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

this entity surface form: Beirut International Airport

BEY → represents → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

BEY → locatedIn → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

BEY → previousName → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

subject surface form: Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport

this entity surface form: Beirut International Airport

OLBA → identifies → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

OLBA → airportName → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

MEA Cargo → operatesFrom → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

MEA Cargo → hubAirport → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

MEA Cargo → regionServedFromHub → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

Directorate General of Civil Aviation (Lebanon) → headquartersLocation → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

this entity surface form: Rafic Hariri International Airport

Directorate General of Civil Aviation (Lebanon) → oversees → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

this entity surface form: Rafic Hariri International Airport

Runway 16/34 → locatedIn → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

Runway 16/34 → isPrimaryRunwayOf → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

Runway 16/34 → isMainRunwayFor → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

MEA → operatingAirlineHub → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

Lydda–Beirut → hasPointOfArrival → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

this entity surface form: Beirut Airport

Lebanese Air Force → headquartersLocation → Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ

this entity surface form: Beirut Air Base