Marine Air Terminal
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The Marine Air Terminal is a historic Art Deco airport terminal at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, originally built for flying boats and now serving as one of the airport’s passenger terminals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marine Air Terminal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2764588 — 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: Marine Air Terminal Context triple: [Terminal A (LaGuardia Airport), alsoKnownAs, Marine Air Terminal]
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A.
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.
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B.
Long Beach Airport
Long Beach Airport is a public airport in Long Beach, California, known for its convenient access to the Los Angeles area and its historic, small-scale terminal.
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C.
Oxnard Airport
Oxnard Airport is a public airport serving the city of Oxnard and the surrounding Ventura County region in Southern California.
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D.
McClellan–Palomar Airport
McClellan–Palomar Airport is a public airport in Carlsbad, California, serving general aviation and regional air traffic in northern San Diego County.
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E.
Oceanside Municipal Airport
Oceanside Municipal Airport is a small public general aviation airport serving the coastal city of Oceanside in San Diego County, California.
- 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: Marine Air Terminal Target entity description: The Marine Air Terminal is a historic Art Deco airport terminal at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, originally built for flying boats and now serving as one of the airport’s passenger terminals.
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A.
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.
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B.
Long Beach Airport
Long Beach Airport is a public airport in Long Beach, California, known for its convenient access to the Los Angeles area and its historic, small-scale terminal.
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C.
Oxnard Airport
Oxnard Airport is a public airport serving the city of Oxnard and the surrounding Ventura County region in Southern California.
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D.
McClellan–Palomar Airport
McClellan–Palomar Airport is a public airport in Carlsbad, California, serving general aviation and regional air traffic in northern San Diego County.
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E.
Oceanside Municipal Airport
Oceanside Municipal Airport is a small public general aviation airport serving the coastal city of Oceanside in San Diego County, California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Art Deco building
ⓘ
airport terminal ⓘ historic building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Art Deco ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| currentFunction | passenger terminal ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | Terminal A ⓘ |
| hasBuildingType | airport terminal building ⓘ |
| hasDesignPeriod | late 1930s ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Art Deco interior details
ⓘ
control tower ⓘ curved façade ⓘ rotunda ⓘ |
| hasHistoricRole | gateway for transatlantic flying boat service ⓘ |
| hasIATATerminalCode | A ⓘ |
| hasMaterial |
brick
ⓘ
concrete ⓘ stone ⓘ |
| hasMural | Flight ⓘ |
| hasMuralArtist | James Brooks ⓘ |
| hasName | Marine Air Terminal self-link ⓘ |
| hasOwner |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
City of New York
|
| hasPublicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| hasRunwayAccess | LaGuardia Airport runways ⓘ |
| hasTransportationMode |
landplane
ⓘ
seaplane (historical) ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Register of Historic Places
ⓘ
surface form:
National Register of Historic Places listing
New York City Landmark ⓘ |
| historicalUse |
Pan American World Airways
ⓘ
surface form:
Pan American World Airways flying boat operations
|
| inception | 1940 ⓘ |
| isExampleOf |
early commercial aviation architecture
ⓘ
streamlined Art Deco design ⓘ |
| isHistoricTerminalOf | LaGuardia Airport ⓘ |
| isOneOf | passenger terminals at LaGuardia Airport ⓘ |
| isTouristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
LaGuardia Airport
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ New York State ⓘ Queens ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| operator | Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ⓘ |
| originalFunction | flying boat terminal ⓘ |
| serves | airline passengers ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSignificance | 1930s–1940s ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial aviation
ⓘ
domestic flights ⓘ general 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: Marine Air Terminal Description of subject: The Marine Air Terminal is a historic Art Deco airport terminal at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, originally built for flying boats and now serving as one of the airport’s passenger terminals.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Terminal A (LaGuardia Airport)