Timbuktu Airport
E402528
Timbuktu Airport is a small public airport in northern Mali that serves the historic city of Timbuktu and connects the remote desert region to the rest of the country.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Timbuktu Airport canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3951995 — 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: Timbuktu Airport Context triple: [Timbuktu Region, hasTransport, Timbuktu Airport]
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A.
Diori Hamani International Airport
Diori Hamani International Airport is the main international airport serving Niamey, the capital city of Niger.
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B.
Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport
Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport is the former main international airport of Senegal, serving the capital Dakar and named after the country's first president and renowned poet.
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C.
Oran Ahmed Ben Bella Airport
Oran Ahmed Ben Bella Airport is the main international airport serving the city of Oran in northwestern Algeria.
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D.
Modibo Keita International Airport
Modibo Keita International Airport is the main international gateway to Mali, serving the capital city Bamako and functioning as the country’s primary hub for passenger and cargo air traffic.
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E.
N’Dolo Airport
N’Dolo Airport is a smaller, secondary airfield serving Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, primarily handling domestic and regional 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: Timbuktu Airport Target entity description: Timbuktu Airport is a small public airport in northern Mali that serves the historic city of Timbuktu and connects the remote desert region to the rest of the country.
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A.
Diori Hamani International Airport
Diori Hamani International Airport is the main international airport serving Niamey, the capital city of Niger.
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B.
Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport
Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport is the former main international airport of Senegal, serving the capital Dakar and named after the country's first president and renowned poet.
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C.
Oran Ahmed Ben Bella Airport
Oran Ahmed Ben Bella Airport is the main international airport serving the city of Oran in northwestern Algeria.
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D.
Modibo Keita International Airport
Modibo Keita International Airport is the main international gateway to Mali, serving the capital city Bamako and functioning as the country’s primary hub for passenger and cargo air traffic.
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E.
N’Dolo Airport
N’Dolo Airport is a smaller, secondary airfield serving Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, primarily handling domestic and regional flights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ |
| connects |
Timbuktu
ⓘ
remote desert region of northern Mali ⓘ rest of Mali ⓘ |
| country | Mali ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
263 meters
ⓘ
863 feet ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
civil aviation
ⓘ
domestic air transport ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType |
aviation infrastructure
ⓘ
transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| IATAcode | TOM ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | GATB ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Timbuktu
ⓘ
Timbuktu Region ⓘ
surface form:
Tombouctou Region
northern Mali ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Africa ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Timbuktu ⓘ |
| operatorType | public ⓘ |
| regionConnectivityRole | connects remote areas to national network ⓘ |
| runwayCount | 1 ⓘ |
| runwayOrientation | 07/25 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves |
Timbuktu
ⓘ
historic city of Timbuktu ⓘ |
| servesCountry | Mali ⓘ |
| servesRegionType | desert region ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cargo flights
ⓘ
passenger flights ⓘ |
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: Timbuktu Airport Description of subject: Timbuktu Airport is a small public airport in northern Mali that serves the historic city of Timbuktu and connects the remote desert region to the rest of the country.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.