Sri Lanka Air Force base
E424708
Sri Lanka Air Force base is a military air facility of the Sri Lanka Air Force that operates alongside civilian aviation infrastructure at Bandaranaike International Airport.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sri Lanka Air Force base canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4255813 — 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: Sri Lanka Air Force base Context triple: [Bandaranaike International Airport, hasMilitarySection, Sri Lanka Air Force base]
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A.
Trincomalee Airport
Trincomalee Airport is a domestic airport in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, serving both civilian flights and military operations.
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B.
Sri Lanka Air Force
The Sri Lanka Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of Sri Lanka’s armed forces, responsible for defending the nation’s airspace and providing air support for military and humanitarian operations.
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C.
Batticaloa Airport
Batticaloa Airport is a domestic airport in eastern Sri Lanka that serves the city of Batticaloa and its surrounding region.
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D.
Jaffna International Airport
Jaffna International Airport is a regional airport in northern Sri Lanka that serves as a key air gateway connecting the Jaffna Peninsula with other domestic and limited international destinations.
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E.
Ratmalana Airport
Ratmalana Airport is a major domestic and former international airport serving the Colombo area in Sri Lanka.
- 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: Sri Lanka Air Force base Target entity description: Sri Lanka Air Force base is a military air facility of the Sri Lanka Air Force that operates alongside civilian aviation infrastructure at Bandaranaike International Airport.
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A.
Trincomalee Airport
Trincomalee Airport is a domestic airport in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, serving both civilian flights and military operations.
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B.
Sri Lanka Air Force
The Sri Lanka Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of Sri Lanka’s armed forces, responsible for defending the nation’s airspace and providing air support for military and humanitarian operations.
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C.
Batticaloa Airport
Batticaloa Airport is a domestic airport in eastern Sri Lanka that serves the city of Batticaloa and its surrounding region.
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D.
Jaffna International Airport
Jaffna International Airport is a regional airport in northern Sri Lanka that serves as a key air gateway connecting the Jaffna Peninsula with other domestic and limited international destinations.
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E.
Ratmalana Airport
Ratmalana Airport is a major domestic and former international airport serving the Colombo area in Sri Lanka.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | military air base ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Sri Lanka Armed Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coexistsWith | civilian aviation infrastructure ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| environment | joint civil–military airport ⓘ |
| garrisonFor | Sri Lanka Air Force personnel ⓘ |
| hasAccessTo | international air routes ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
support VIP and government flights
ⓘ
support military logistics ⓘ support national air defense ⓘ |
| hasIcaoCode | VCBI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| hasRunwayType | paved runway ⓘ |
| locatedAt | Bandaranaike International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCity | Katunayake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInProvince | Western Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | South Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNearCity | Colombo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Sri Lanka Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Sri Lanka Air Force airfield network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesAirspaceWith | Bandaranaike International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesFacilitiesWith | Bandaranaike International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsBranch | air warfare branch of Sri Lanka Armed Forces ⓘ |
| type | joint-use airport facility ⓘ |
| usedFor |
air defense
ⓘ
military aviation operations ⓘ training flights ⓘ transport flights ⓘ |
| usesRunwaysOf | Bandaranaike International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sri Lanka Air Force base Description of subject: Sri Lanka Air Force base is a military air facility of the Sri Lanka Air Force that operates alongside civilian aviation infrastructure at Bandaranaike International Airport.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.