DUR
E459942
DUR is the IATA airport code for King Shaka International Airport serving Durban, South Africa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DUR canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4686264 — 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: DUR Context triple: [King Shaka International Airport, IATAcode, DUR]
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A.
DURL
DURL is the abbreviated name of the Dubai Rapid Link consortium, a group formed to develop and operate parts of Dubai’s urban rail transit system.
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B.
DOR
DOR is the standard abbreviation used for the Mexican football club Dorados de Sinaloa.
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C.
DOR
DOR is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the English county of Dorset.
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D.
DUS
DUS is the three-letter IATA code for Düsseldorf Airport, a major international airport in western Germany.
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E.
DURIP
DURIP is a U.S. Department of Defense funding program that provides universities with advanced research instrumentation to support cutting-edge defense-related science and engineering.
- 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: DUR Target entity description: DUR is the IATA airport code for King Shaka International Airport serving Durban, South Africa.
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A.
DURL
DURL is the abbreviated name of the Dubai Rapid Link consortium, a group formed to develop and operate parts of Dubai’s urban rail transit system.
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B.
DOR
DOR is the standard abbreviation used for the Mexican football club Dorados de Sinaloa.
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C.
DOR
DOR is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the English county of Dorset.
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D.
DUS
DUS is the three-letter IATA code for Düsseldorf Airport, a major international airport in western Germany.
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E.
DURIP
DURIP is a U.S. Department of Defense funding program that provides universities with advanced research instrumentation to support cutting-edge defense-related science and engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | IATA airport code ⓘ |
| airportName | King Shaka International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedICAOCode | FALE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classification | international airport ⓘ |
| codeType | IATA code ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| icaoRegion | FALE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | global IATA airport code system ⓘ |
| locatedIn | KwaZulu-Natal ⓘ |
| namedAfter | King Shaka kaSenzangakhona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearCity | Durban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatorType | public airport ⓘ |
| previousPrimaryAirportForCity | Durban International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refersTo | King Shaka International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | Indian Ocean coast of South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedAirportCode | DUR (Durban International Airport, former use) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesCity | Durban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesCountry | South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesMetropolitanArea | Durban metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesRegion | KwaZulu-Natal Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | South Africa Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZoneAbbreviation | SAST ⓘ |
| transportType | air transport ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cargo flights
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commercial passenger flights ⓘ domestic flights ⓘ international flights ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +02:00 ⓘ |
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: DUR Description of subject: DUR is the IATA airport code for King Shaka International Airport serving Durban, South Africa.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.