China Bay Airport
E355733
China Bay Airport is a military and domestic aviation facility located near Trincomalee in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| China Bay Airport canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3205742 — 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 Bay Airport Context triple: [Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, hasAirport, China Bay Airport]
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A.
Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport
Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport is a major international aviation hub in southern China serving the city of Shenzhen and the broader Pearl River Delta region.
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B.
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is a major international aviation hub in southern China serving the city of Guangzhou and the broader Pearl River Delta region.
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C.
Beihai Fucheng Airport
Beihai Fucheng Airport is a regional civil airport serving the coastal city of Beihai in Guangxi, China, providing domestic flights and connections to major Chinese cities.
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D.
Shanghai Pudong International Airport
Shanghai Pudong International Airport is a major international aviation hub in eastern China, serving as one of the country’s busiest gateways for global passenger and cargo traffic.
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E.
Kinmen Airport
Kinmen Airport is a regional airport in Kinmen, Taiwan, serving as the main air gateway connecting the outlying islands with major cities on the Taiwanese mainland.
- 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 Bay Airport Target entity description: China Bay Airport is a military and domestic aviation facility located near Trincomalee in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province.
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A.
Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport
Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport is a major international aviation hub in southern China serving the city of Shenzhen and the broader Pearl River Delta region.
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B.
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is a major international aviation hub in southern China serving the city of Guangzhou and the broader Pearl River Delta region.
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C.
Beihai Fucheng Airport
Beihai Fucheng Airport is a regional civil airport serving the coastal city of Beihai in Guangxi, China, providing domestic flights and connections to major Chinese cities.
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D.
Shanghai Pudong International Airport
Shanghai Pudong International Airport is a major international aviation hub in eastern China, serving as one of the country’s busiest gateways for global passenger and cargo traffic.
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E.
Kinmen Airport
Kinmen Airport is a regional airport in Kinmen, Taiwan, serving as the main air gateway connecting the outlying islands with major cities on the Taiwanese mainland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
military air base ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| hasElevation | approximately 7 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| hasIATAcode | TRR ⓘ |
| hasICAOcode | VCCT ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryRole |
operational base
ⓘ
training base ⓘ |
| hasRunway | single runway ⓘ |
| hasRunwayOrientation | 05/23 ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| hasType | joint civil-military airport ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Trincomalee ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Eastern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Trincomalee ⓘ |
| locatedOn | China Bay ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| nearBodyOfWater |
Indian Ocean
ⓘ
Trincomalee ⓘ
surface form:
Trincomalee Harbour
|
| operatedBy | Sri Lanka Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf | Sri Lanka Air Force Academy China Bay ⓘ |
| regionServed | Eastern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| servesCity | Trincomalee ⓘ |
| usedFor |
domestic flights
ⓘ
military 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: China Bay Airport Description of subject: China Bay Airport is a military and domestic aviation facility located near Trincomalee in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Trincomalee Airport