East London Airport
E389823
East London Airport is a regional airport in East London, South Africa, serving domestic flights and connecting the Eastern Cape to major cities in the country.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| East London Airport canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3812844 — 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: East London Airport Context triple: [East London, formerNameOfAirport, East London Airport]
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A.
Bram Fischer International Airport
Bram Fischer International Airport is the primary airport serving Bloemfontein and the surrounding Free State region in South Africa.
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B.
Pietermaritzburg Airport
Pietermaritzburg Airport is a regional airport in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, providing primarily domestic passenger services.
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C.
Lanseria International Airport
Lanseria International Airport is a privately owned international airport serving the Johannesburg–Pretoria region in South Africa’s Gauteng province, handling domestic and regional flights as an alternative to O. R. Tambo International Airport.
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D.
Hosea Kutako International Airport
Hosea Kutako International Airport is the main international gateway to Namibia, serving the capital city of Windhoek and handling the majority of the country’s long-haul and regional air traffic.
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E.
King Shaka International Airport
King Shaka International Airport is the main international airport serving the Durban area in South Africa, handling both domestic and international flights.
- 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: East London Airport Target entity description: East London Airport is a regional airport in East London, South Africa, serving domestic flights and connecting the Eastern Cape to major cities in the country.
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A.
Bram Fischer International Airport
Bram Fischer International Airport is the primary airport serving Bloemfontein and the surrounding Free State region in South Africa.
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B.
Pietermaritzburg Airport
Pietermaritzburg Airport is a regional airport in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, providing primarily domestic passenger services.
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C.
Lanseria International Airport
Lanseria International Airport is a privately owned international airport serving the Johannesburg–Pretoria region in South Africa’s Gauteng province, handling domestic and regional flights as an alternative to O. R. Tambo International Airport.
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D.
Hosea Kutako International Airport
Hosea Kutako International Airport is the main international gateway to Namibia, serving the capital city of Windhoek and handling the majority of the country’s long-haul and regional air traffic.
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E.
King Shaka International Airport
King Shaka International Airport is the main international airport serving the Durban area in South Africa, handling both domestic and international flights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
regional airport ⓘ |
| cityServed | East London ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Cape Town
ⓘ
Durban ⓘ Johannesburg, South Africa ⓘ
surface form:
Johannesburg
|
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
arrival hall
ⓘ
baggage claim area ⓘ car rental services ⓘ check-in counters ⓘ departure lounge ⓘ parking area ⓘ security screening ⓘ |
| hasPassengerTerminal | main terminal building ⓘ |
| hasRunway | asphalt runway ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| hasServiceType |
charter flights
ⓘ
scheduled passenger services ⓘ |
| hasType | public airport ⓘ |
| hasUse |
commercial aviation
ⓘ
general aviation ⓘ |
| IATAcode | ELS ⓘ |
| ICAOcode |
FALE
ⓘ
surface form:
FAEL
|
| locatedIn |
East London
ⓘ
Eastern Cape ⓘ South Africa ⓘ |
| operator | Airports Company South Africa ⓘ |
| province | Eastern Cape ⓘ |
| serves | domestic flights ⓘ |
| servesAs |
gateway to Eastern Cape
ⓘ
regional transport hub ⓘ |
| servesRegion | Eastern Cape ⓘ |
| timezone |
Southern Africa Time
ⓘ
surface form:
South African Standard Time
|
| UTCoffset | +2 ⓘ |
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: East London Airport Description of subject: East London Airport is a regional airport in East London, South Africa, serving domestic flights and connecting the Eastern Cape to major cities in the country.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.