Paro Airport
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Paro Airport is Bhutan’s primary international airport, known for its challenging approach amid steep mountains and limited number of pilots certified to land there.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paro Airport canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3731562 — 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: Paro Airport Context triple: [Thimphu, nearestInternationalAirport, Paro Airport]
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A.
Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport
Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport is a high-altitude civilian airport in Leh, Ladakh, serving as a key air gateway to the Indian Himalayas.
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B.
Donyi Polo Airport
Donyi Polo Airport is a domestic airport serving Itanagar and the surrounding region in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
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C.
Tenzing-Hillary Airport
Tenzing-Hillary Airport is a small, high-altitude airport in Lukla, Nepal, known as the gateway to Mount Everest and for its extremely short, challenging runway.
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D.
Lengpui Airport
Lengpui Airport is a domestic airport serving Aizawl and the surrounding region in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram.
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E.
Tribhuvan International Airport
Tribhuvan International Airport is the main international gateway to Nepal, serving as the primary airport for the capital city of Kathmandu.
- 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: Paro Airport Target entity description: Paro Airport is Bhutan’s primary international airport, known for its challenging approach amid steep mountains and limited number of pilots certified to land there.
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A.
Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport
Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport is a high-altitude civilian airport in Leh, Ladakh, serving as a key air gateway to the Indian Himalayas.
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B.
Donyi Polo Airport
Donyi Polo Airport is a domestic airport serving Itanagar and the surrounding region in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
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C.
Tenzing-Hillary Airport
Tenzing-Hillary Airport is a small, high-altitude airport in Lukla, Nepal, known as the gateway to Mount Everest and for its extremely short, challenging runway.
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D.
Lengpui Airport
Lengpui Airport is a domestic airport serving Aizawl and the surrounding region in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram.
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E.
Tribhuvan International Airport
Tribhuvan International Airport is the main international gateway to Nepal, serving as the primary airport for the capital city of Kathmandu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | international airport ⓘ |
| approachType | visual approach ⓘ |
| country | Bhutan ⓘ |
| distanceFromCityCentre | approximately 6 km from Paro town ⓘ |
| distanceToThimphuByRoad | about 54 km ⓘ |
| elevation |
2236 metres
ⓘ
7335 feet ⓘ |
| hasApron | parking stands for narrow-body aircraft ⓘ |
| hasBuildingStyle | traditional Bhutanese architectural elements ⓘ |
| hasCargoService | limited cargo operations ⓘ |
| hasCustomsFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| hasImmigrationFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| hasNavigationConstraint | daylight operations only under visual meteorological conditions ⓘ |
| hasPassengerService |
domestic flights
ⓘ
international flights ⓘ |
| hasRestriction | operations limited by terrain and weather ⓘ |
| hasTerminalType | single passenger terminal ⓘ |
| IATAcode | PBH ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | VQPR ⓘ |
| knownFor |
challenging approach
ⓘ
limited number of pilots certified to land ⓘ short runway ⓘ steep mountainous terrain ⓘ |
| landingRequires |
special pilot training
ⓘ
specific certification for approach procedures ⓘ |
| locatedInDistrict | Paro District ⓘ |
| locatedInValley |
Paro District
ⓘ
surface form:
Paro Valley
|
| maxSurroundingMountainHeight | over 5000 metres ⓘ |
| nearCapital | Thimphu ⓘ |
| nearRiver | Paro Chhu ⓘ |
| openedInPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Department of Air Transport of Bhutan ⓘ |
| primaryHubFor |
Bhutan Airlines
ⓘ
Druk Air ⓘ |
| region | western Bhutan ⓘ |
| runwayCount | 1 ⓘ |
| runwayDesignation | 15/33 ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
2265 metres
ⓘ
7431 feet ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| safetyReputation | one of the world’s most challenging airports for pilots ⓘ |
| servesAs |
gateway for international tourists to Bhutan
ⓘ
primary international airport of Bhutan ⓘ |
| servesCity |
Paro District
ⓘ
surface form:
Paro
|
| surroundedBy |
Himalayas
ⓘ
surface form:
Himalayan mountains
|
| timeZone | BTT ⓘ |
| timeZoneOffset | +06:00 ⓘ |
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: Paro Airport Description of subject: Paro Airport is Bhutan’s primary international airport, known for its challenging approach amid steep mountains and limited number of pilots certified to land there.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.