Trans States Airlines (historically)

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Trans States Airlines was a former U.S. regional airline that operated feeder flights for major carriers under brands such as American Eagle.

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All labels observed (4)

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf defunct airline
regional airline
airlineType commuter airline
feeder carrier
allianceRole regional affiliate
callsign WATERSKI
ceasedOperations 2020
country United States of America
surface form: United States
employeeCountApproximate 1500
finalOperatingBrand United Express
fleetType ATR 42
ATR 72
BAe Jetstream 31
Embraer ERJ 135
surface form: Embraer ERJ-135

Embraer ERJ 145
surface form: Embraer ERJ-145

Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
formerName Resort Air
founded 1982
headquartersLocation Bridgeton, Missouri
headquartersMetropolitanArea St. Louis metropolitan area
IATACode AX
ICAOCode LOF
industry aviation
notableEvent announced wind-down of operations in March 2020
operatedAsBrand American Eagle (brand)
surface form: American Eagle

Trans World Airlines
surface form: Trans World Express

US Airways Express
United Express
operatedForAirline American Airlines
Trans World Airlines
US Airways
United Airlines
operatedServiceType feeder flights
regional flights
operatingCertificateType Part 121 air carrier
parentCompany Trans States Airlines (historically) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Trans States Holdings
primaryHub St. Louis Lambert International Airport
reasonForClosure COVID-19 pandemic impact
fleet rationalization by major partners
renamedInYear 1989
safetyRecordSummary no fatal passenger jet accidents in later years of operation
secondaryHub O'Hare International Airport
surface form: O’Hare International Airport

Washington Dulles International Airport
servedRegion Eastern United States
Midwestern United States
Southern United States
serviceModel capacity purchase agreements

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: Trans States Airlines (historically)
Description of subject: Trans States Airlines was a former U.S. regional airline that operated feeder flights for major carriers under brands such as American Eagle.

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

American Eagle (brand) operatesAsBrandFor Trans States Airlines (historically)
subject surface form: American Eagle
Endeavor Air formerName Trans States Airlines (historically)
this entity surface form: Express Airlines I
Trans States Airlines (historically) parentCompany Trans States Airlines (historically) self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Trans States Airlines
this entity surface form: Trans States Holdings
United Express formerOperator Trans States Airlines (historically)
this entity surface form: Trans States Airlines
AX assignedTo Trans States Airlines (historically)
this entity surface form: Trans States Airlines
LOF represents Trans States Airlines (historically)
this entity surface form: Trans States Airlines
LOF identifierFor Trans States Airlines (historically)
this entity surface form: Trans States Airlines
LOF parentCompany Trans States Airlines (historically)
subject surface form: Trans States Airlines
this entity surface form: Trans States Holdings
WATERSKI usedBy Trans States Airlines (historically)
this entity surface form: Trans States Airlines
Resort Air successor Trans States Airlines (historically)
this entity surface form: Trans States Airlines
Resort Air laterKnownAs Trans States Airlines (historically)
this entity surface form: Trans States Airlines
AmericanConnection operatedBy Trans States Airlines (historically)
this entity surface form: Trans States Airlines
US Airways Express operatedBy Trans States Airlines (historically)
this entity surface form: Trans States Airlines