Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport
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Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport is a public airport in Newport News, Virginia, serving commercial and general aviation traffic for the Virginia Peninsula and surrounding Hampton Roads region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport canonical | 3 |
| Newport News–Williamsburg International Airport | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4115571 — 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: Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport Context triple: [Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News metropolitan area, hasAirport, Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport]
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A.
Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport
Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport is a regional public airport serving the Charlottesville, Virginia area with commercial and general aviation flights.
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B.
Norfolk International Airport
Norfolk International Airport is a major commercial airport serving the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia, providing domestic flights and acting as a key transportation hub for Norfolk and the surrounding communities.
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C.
Richmond International Airport
Richmond International Airport is a major commercial airport serving the Richmond metropolitan area and central Virginia with domestic flights and regional connections.
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D.
Manassas Regional Airport
Manassas Regional Airport is a public airport in Manassas, Virginia, primarily serving general aviation and regional air traffic for the surrounding Northern Virginia area.
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E.
Wilmington International Airport
Wilmington International Airport is a public airport serving commercial and general aviation traffic for the Wilmington, North Carolina metropolitan area.
- 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: Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport Target entity description: Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport is a public airport in Newport News, Virginia, serving commercial and general aviation traffic for the Virginia Peninsula and surrounding Hampton Roads region.
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A.
Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport
Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport is a regional public airport serving the Charlottesville, Virginia area with commercial and general aviation flights.
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B.
Norfolk International Airport
Norfolk International Airport is a major commercial airport serving the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia, providing domestic flights and acting as a key transportation hub for Norfolk and the surrounding communities.
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C.
Richmond International Airport
Richmond International Airport is a major commercial airport serving the Richmond metropolitan area and central Virginia with domestic flights and regional connections.
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D.
Manassas Regional Airport
Manassas Regional Airport is a public airport in Manassas, Virginia, primarily serving general aviation and regional air traffic for the surrounding Northern Virginia area.
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E.
Wilmington International Airport
Wilmington International Airport is a public airport serving commercial and general aviation traffic for the Wilmington, North Carolina metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
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public airport ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | about 13 feet ⓘ |
| FAAcode | PHF ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | PHF ⓘ |
| hasApproachAid |
instrument landing system
ⓘ
precision approach path indicator ⓘ runway end identifier lights ⓘ |
| hasCityServed |
Newport News
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Williamsburg ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
air cargo facilities
ⓘ
air traffic control tower ⓘ aircraft hangars ⓘ general aviation facilities ⓘ parking facilities ⓘ rental car facilities ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
Runway 2/20
ⓘ
Runway 7/25 ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| hasTerminal | passenger terminal ⓘ |
| hasType |
commercial service airport
ⓘ
reliever airport for general aviation ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.flyphf.com/ ⓘ |
| IATAcode | PHF ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | KPHF ⓘ |
| isAlsoKnownAs |
Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport
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surface form:
Newport News–Williamsburg International Airport
Patrick Henry Field ⓘ |
| isNear |
Interstate 64
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOperatedBy | Peninsula Airport Commission ⓘ |
| isOwnedBy | Peninsula Airport Commission ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hampton Roads
ⓘ
Newport News, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia ⓘ Virginia Peninsula ⓘ |
| runway2/20Length | about 5,000 feet ⓘ |
| runway7/25Length | about 8,000 feet ⓘ |
| serves |
Hampton Roads region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Newport News, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia Peninsula ⓘ Williamsburg ⓘ
surface form:
Williamsburg, Virginia
|
| servesRegion |
Mid-Atlantic states
ⓘ
surface form:
Mid-Atlantic United States
southeastern Virginia ⓘ |
| servesTrafficType |
commercial aviation
ⓘ
general aviation ⓘ |
| timezone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
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: Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport Description of subject: Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport is a public airport in Newport News, Virginia, serving commercial and general aviation traffic for the Virginia Peninsula and surrounding Hampton Roads region.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News metropolitan area
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hasAirport
→
Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport
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Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport
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isAlsoKnownAs
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Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport
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this entity surface form:
Newport News–Williamsburg International Airport