Gander International Airport
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Gander International Airport is a historically significant airport in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, known for its role as a transatlantic refueling stop and its pivotal involvement in aviation history and emergency landings.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gander International Airport canonical | 4 |
| Gander Airport | 1 |
| Gander International Airport terminal | 1 |
| Gander – Goose Bay | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2776857 — 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: Gander International Airport Context triple: [Gander, hasAirport, Gander International Airport]
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A.
St. John’s International Airport
St. John’s International Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the St. John’s metropolitan area and eastern Newfoundland, Canada.
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B.
Labrador City Airport
Labrador City Airport is a regional airport in western Labrador, Canada, providing commercial and general aviation services to Labrador City and the surrounding area.
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C.
Goose Bay Airport
Goose Bay Airport is a Canadian airport in Labrador that serves the town of Happy Valley–Goose Bay and functions as both a civilian and military airfield.
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D.
Halifax Stanfield International Airport
Halifax Stanfield International Airport is the primary international airport serving the Halifax region and much of Atlantic Canada, offering domestic, transborder, and international flights.
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E.
Thunder Bay International Airport
Thunder Bay International Airport is a regional airport in northwestern Ontario, Canada, serving as a key transportation hub for Thunder Bay and the surrounding area.
- 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: Gander International Airport Target entity description: Gander International Airport is a historically significant airport in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, known for its role as a transatlantic refueling stop and its pivotal involvement in aviation history and emergency landings.
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A.
St. John’s International Airport
St. John’s International Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the St. John’s metropolitan area and eastern Newfoundland, Canada.
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B.
Labrador City Airport
Labrador City Airport is a regional airport in western Labrador, Canada, providing commercial and general aviation services to Labrador City and the surrounding area.
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C.
Goose Bay Airport
Goose Bay Airport is a Canadian airport in Labrador that serves the town of Happy Valley–Goose Bay and functions as both a civilian and military airfield.
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D.
Halifax Stanfield International Airport
Halifax Stanfield International Airport is the primary international airport serving the Halifax region and much of Atlantic Canada, offering domestic, transborder, and international flights.
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E.
Thunder Bay International Airport
Thunder Bay International Airport is a regional airport in northwestern Ontario, Canada, serving as a key transportation hub for Thunder Bay and the surrounding area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
international airport ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 151 meters ⓘ |
| formerName |
Gander International Airport
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Gander Airport
|
| hasCategory |
Airports in Newfoundland and Labrador
ⓘ
Transatlantic aviation history ⓘ World War II airfields in Canada ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
air traffic control center
ⓘ
cargo handling facilities ⓘ international passenger terminal ⓘ long-range runways suitable for wide-body aircraft ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | recognized for historical significance in aviation ⓘ |
| hasNavigationRole |
North Atlantic area
ⓘ
surface form:
North Atlantic air traffic control region
oceanic air traffic control services ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
Runway 03/21
ⓘ
Runway 13/31 ⓘ |
| hasService |
cargo flights
ⓘ
charter flights ⓘ scheduled passenger flights ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
important waypoint for early transatlantic flights
ⓘ
major transatlantic refueling stop ⓘ strategic aviation hub during World War II ⓘ |
| IATAcode | YQX ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | CYQX ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Gander
ⓘ
surface form:
Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Newfoundland and Labrador ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Gander Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | island of Newfoundland ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
St. John’s
ⓘ
surface form:
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
|
| notableFor |
diverted flights during the September 11, 2001 attacks
ⓘ
emergency landings on transatlantic routes ⓘ role in development of transatlantic air travel ⓘ |
| opened | 1938 ⓘ |
| operator | Gander International Airport Authority ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Canadian federal government (Ottawa)
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Canada
|
| partOf |
National Airports System of Canada
ⓘ
surface form:
Canadian National Airports System
|
| roleInEvent |
hosted thousands of stranded passengers after September 11, 2001
ⓘ
received diverted aircraft on September 11, 2001 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves |
central Newfoundland
ⓘ
Gander ⓘ
surface form:
town of Gander
|
| timezone | Newfoundland Time Zone ⓘ |
| usedBy |
civil aviation
ⓘ
military aviation ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
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: Gander International Airport Description of subject: Gander International Airport is a historically significant airport in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, known for its role as a transatlantic refueling stop and its pivotal involvement in aviation history and emergency landings.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Gander International Airport terminal
this entity surface form:
Gander – Goose Bay
this entity surface form:
Gander Airport