Durban International Airport
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Durban International Airport was the former primary airport serving Durban, South Africa, before being decommissioned and succeeded by King Shaka International Airport.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Durban International Airport canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4686268 — 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: Durban International Airport Context triple: [King Shaka International Airport, replaced, Durban International Airport]
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A.
Cape Town International Airport
Cape Town International Airport is the primary international gateway to Cape Town and one of South Africa’s busiest and most important airports for tourism and commerce.
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B.
O. R. Tambo International Airport
O. R. Tambo International Airport is South Africa’s largest and busiest airport, serving as the primary international gateway to Johannesburg and the country.
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C.
Bram Fischer International Airport
Bram Fischer International Airport is the primary airport serving Bloemfontein and the surrounding Free State region in South Africa.
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D.
Nelson Mandela International Airport
Nelson Mandela International Airport is the main international gateway serving Praia and the island of Santiago in Cape Verde.
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E.
Pietermaritzburg Airport
Pietermaritzburg Airport is a regional airport in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, providing primarily domestic passenger services.
- 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: Durban International Airport Target entity description: Durban International Airport was the former primary airport serving Durban, South Africa, before being decommissioned and succeeded by King Shaka International Airport.
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A.
Cape Town International Airport
Cape Town International Airport is the primary international gateway to Cape Town and one of South Africa’s busiest and most important airports for tourism and commerce.
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B.
O. R. Tambo International Airport
O. R. Tambo International Airport is South Africa’s largest and busiest airport, serving as the primary international gateway to Johannesburg and the country.
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C.
Bram Fischer International Airport
Bram Fischer International Airport is the primary airport serving Bloemfontein and the surrounding Free State region in South Africa.
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D.
Nelson Mandela International Airport
Nelson Mandela International Airport is the main international gateway serving Praia and the island of Santiago in Cape Verde.
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E.
Pietermaritzburg Airport
Pietermaritzburg Airport is a regional airport in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, providing primarily domestic passenger services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct airport
ⓘ
international airport ⓘ |
| ceasedOperations | 2010 ⓘ |
| city | Durban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closureReason | replacement by King Shaka International Airport ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 2010 ⓘ |
| distanceFromCityCentre | approximately 15 km ⓘ |
| elevation |
30 ft
ⓘ
9 m ⓘ |
| formerMilitaryUse | South African Air Force base ⓘ |
| formerName | Louis Botha Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IATAcode | DUR NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | FADN NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
KwaZulu-Natal
ⓘ
South Africa ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Indian Ocean coast ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Durban city centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Louis Botha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1951 ⓘ |
| operator | Airports Company South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryRunwayOrientation | northeast–southwest ⓘ |
| regionServed | eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renamed | Durban International Airport in 1994 ⓘ |
| replacedBy | King Shaka International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runway | 06/24 ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
2400 m
ⓘ
7874 ft ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servedAirline |
Airlink
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
British Airways (Comair) NERFINISHED ⓘ Kulula.com NERFINISHED ⓘ Mango NERFINISHED ⓘ SA Express NERFINISHED ⓘ South African Airways NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedAs |
hub for domestic flights
ⓘ
hub for regional flights ⓘ primary airport for Durban ⓘ |
| servedRoute |
Durban–Cape Town
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Durban–Johannesburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Durban–Maputo NERFINISHED ⓘ Durban–Mauritius NERFINISHED ⓘ Durban–Port Elizabeth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves | Durban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | closed ⓘ |
| successor | King Shaka International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timezone | SAST ⓘ |
| UTCoffset | +2 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Durban International Airport Description of subject: Durban International Airport was the former primary airport serving Durban, South Africa, before being decommissioned and succeeded by King Shaka International Airport.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.