Socotra Airport
E292692
Socotra Airport is the main air gateway to Yemen’s remote Socotra Island, connecting the UNESCO-recognized archipelago with the mainland and limited international destinations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Socotra Airport canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2691022 — 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: Socotra Airport Context triple: [Socotra, hasAirport, Socotra Airport]
-
A.
Salalah Airport
Salalah Airport is a major international airport in southern Oman serving the city of Salalah and the Dhofar region, handling both domestic and regional flights and supporting the area’s tourism and trade.
-
B.
Punta Raisi Airport
Punta Raisi Airport is the main international airport serving Palermo and the surrounding region in Sicily, Italy.
-
C.
Aden Adde International Airport
Aden Adde International Airport is the main international airport serving Mogadishu and the primary aviation gateway to Somalia.
-
D.
Sanaʽa International Airport
Sanaʽa International Airport is the main commercial airport serving Yemen’s capital, handling both domestic and international flights.
-
E.
Jazan Regional Airport
Jazan Regional Airport is a domestic airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia serving the city of Jazan and the surrounding Jazan Region.
- 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: Socotra Airport Target entity description: Socotra Airport is the main air gateway to Yemen’s remote Socotra Island, connecting the UNESCO-recognized archipelago with the mainland and limited international destinations.
-
A.
Salalah Airport
Salalah Airport is a major international airport in southern Oman serving the city of Salalah and the Dhofar region, handling both domestic and regional flights and supporting the area’s tourism and trade.
-
B.
Punta Raisi Airport
Punta Raisi Airport is the main international airport serving Palermo and the surrounding region in Sicily, Italy.
-
C.
Aden Adde International Airport
Aden Adde International Airport is the main international airport serving Mogadishu and the primary aviation gateway to Somalia.
-
D.
Sanaʽa International Airport
Sanaʽa International Airport is the main commercial airport serving Yemen’s capital, handling both domestic and international flights.
-
E.
Jazan Regional Airport
Jazan Regional Airport is a domestic airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia serving the city of Jazan and the surrounding Jazan Region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | airport ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Socotra
ⓘ
surface form:
UNESCO-recognized Socotra Archipelago
|
| belongsTo | Yemeni civil aviation network ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Aden
ⓘ
Seiyun ⓘ limited international destinations ⓘ Yemen ⓘ
surface form:
mainland Yemen
|
| country | Yemen ⓘ |
| distanceFromHadibu | approximately 12 kilometers ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalContext | biodiverse island ecosystem ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
apron for aircraft parking
ⓘ
control tower ⓘ terminal building ⓘ |
| hasLimitedConnectivity | true ⓘ |
| hasRunway | single runway ⓘ |
| hasService |
cargo transport
ⓘ
passenger transport ⓘ |
| iataCode | SCT ⓘ |
| icaoCode | OYSQ ⓘ |
| isMainAirportOf |
Socotra
ⓘ
surface form:
Socotra Island
|
| isRemote | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Arabian Sea
ⓘ
Socotra ⓘ
surface form:
Socotra Governorate
Socotra ⓘ
surface form:
Socotra Island
|
| locatedInBodyOfWaterRegion | northwestern Indian Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Socotra ⓘ |
| near |
Hadibu
ⓘ
Socotra ⓘ
surface form:
UNESCO World Heritage Site Socotra Archipelago
|
| partOf |
Socotra
ⓘ
surface form:
Socotra Archipelago
|
| region | Middle East ⓘ |
| runwayOrientation | 03/21 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves |
Hadibu
ⓘ
Socotra ⓘ
surface form:
Socotra Island
|
| servesAs | main air gateway to Socotra ⓘ |
| servesPopulation | residents of Socotra ⓘ |
| servesSector |
humanitarian operations
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | connects remote island to mainland Yemen ⓘ |
| timezone | Arabia Standard Time ⓘ |
| usedFor |
civil aviation
ⓘ
domestic flights ⓘ limited international flights ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +3 ⓘ |
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: Socotra Airport Description of subject: Socotra Airport is the main air gateway to Yemen’s remote Socotra Island, connecting the UNESCO-recognized archipelago with the mainland and limited international destinations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.