JAF
E386434
JAF is the three-letter IATA airport code assigned to Jaffna International Airport in Sri Lanka.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| JAF canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3775063 — 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: JAF Context triple: [Jaffna International Airport, IATAcode, JAF]
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A.
JAF
JAF is the acronym commonly used for the Jordanian Armed Forces, the military organization responsible for defending the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
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B.
Japanese Red Cross Society
The Japanese Red Cross Society is Japan’s national humanitarian organization that provides disaster relief, medical services, and blood donation programs as part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
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C.
JAC
JAC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Judicial Appointments Commission, the body responsible for selecting candidates for judicial office in England and Wales.
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D.
Nihon Minshutō
Nihon Minshutō was a conservative political party in Japan that existed in the mid-1950s and played a key role in the formation of the modern Liberal Democratic Party.
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E.
JAFI
JAFI is the commonly used acronym for the Jewish Agency for Israel, a major organization that facilitates Jewish immigration to Israel and supports Jewish communities worldwide.
- 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: JAF Target entity description: JAF is the three-letter IATA airport code assigned to Jaffna International Airport in Sri Lanka.
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A.
JAF
JAF is the acronym commonly used for the Jordanian Armed Forces, the military organization responsible for defending the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
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B.
Japanese Red Cross Society
The Japanese Red Cross Society is Japan’s national humanitarian organization that provides disaster relief, medical services, and blood donation programs as part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
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C.
JAC
JAC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Judicial Appointments Commission, the body responsible for selecting candidates for judicial office in England and Wales.
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D.
Nihon Minshutō
Nihon Minshutō was a conservative political party in Japan that existed in the mid-1950s and played a key role in the formation of the modern Liberal Democratic Party.
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E.
JAFI
JAFI is the commonly used acronym for the Jewish Agency for Israel, a major organization that facilitates Jewish immigration to Israel and supports Jewish communities worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IATA airport code
ⓘ
airport ⓘ international airport ⓘ |
| airportType |
military
ⓘ
public ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| formerName | Palaly Airport ⓘ |
| IATA code | JAF self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| ICAO code | VCCJ ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Jaffna
ⓘ
Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| operator |
Government of Sri Lanka
ⓘ
Sri Lanka Air Force ⓘ |
| region | South Asia ⓘ |
| represents | Jaffna International Airport ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| runwayType | single runway ⓘ |
| serves |
Jaffna District
ⓘ
surface form:
Jaffna Peninsula
Jaffna ⓘ
surface form:
city of Jaffna
|
| servesRegion |
Northern Province, Sri Lanka
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Province of Sri Lanka
|
| timezone | Sri Lanka Standard Time ⓘ |
| usedFor |
civil aviation
ⓘ
military aviation ⓘ |
| UTCoffset | UTC+5:30 ⓘ |
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: JAF Description of subject: JAF is the three-letter IATA airport code assigned to Jaffna International Airport in Sri Lanka.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.