China Eastern Airlines
E31985
China Eastern Airlines is a major Chinese airline based in Shanghai that operates extensive domestic and international routes as one of the country’s largest carriers.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| China Eastern Airlines canonical | 47 |
| CHINA EASTERN | 3 |
| China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited | 2 |
| China Eastern Airlines (on China routes) | 1 |
| China Eastern Airlines Cargo | 1 |
| 中国东方航空 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T238220 — 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: China Eastern Airlines Context triple: [SkyTeam, hasMember, China Eastern Airlines]
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A.
China Airlines
China Airlines is the flag carrier of Taiwan, operating an extensive network of international passenger and cargo flights across Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania.
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B.
Cathay Pacific
Cathay Pacific is a major Hong Kong-based international airline known for its extensive global network and premium full-service operations.
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C.
Korean Air
Korean Air is South Korea’s largest airline and flag carrier, operating extensive international and domestic passenger and cargo services worldwide.
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D.
XiamenAir
XiamenAir is a Chinese airline based in Xiamen that operates domestic and international flights across Asia and beyond.
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E.
Malaysia Airlines
Malaysia Airlines is the flag carrier of Malaysia, operating international and domestic flights across Asia, Europe, and other regions from its main hub in Kuala Lumpur.
- 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: China Eastern Airlines Target entity description: China Eastern Airlines is a major Chinese airline based in Shanghai that operates extensive domestic and international routes as one of the country’s largest carriers.
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A.
China Airlines
China Airlines is the flag carrier of Taiwan, operating an extensive network of international passenger and cargo flights across Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania.
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B.
Cathay Pacific
Cathay Pacific is a major Hong Kong-based international airline known for its extensive global network and premium full-service operations.
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C.
Korean Air
Korean Air is South Korea’s largest airline and flag carrier, operating extensive international and domestic passenger and cargo services worldwide.
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D.
XiamenAir
XiamenAir is a Chinese airline based in Xiamen that operates domestic and international flights across Asia and beyond.
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E.
Malaysia Airlines
Malaysia Airlines is the flag carrier of Malaysia, operating international and domestic flights across Asia, Europe, and other regions from its main hub in Kuala Lumpur.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: China Eastern Airlines Description of subject: China Eastern Airlines is a major Chinese airline based in Shanghai that operates extensive domestic and international routes as one of the country’s largest carriers.
Referenced by (55)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
China Eastern Airlines Cargo
subject surface form:
China United Airlines
subject surface form:
SkyTeam