Williams Air Force Base
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Williams Air Force Base was a former United States Air Force training installation in Arizona that played a major role in pilot instruction before its closure and conversion to a civilian airport.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Williams Air Force Base canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4639387 — 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: Williams Air Force Base Context triple: [Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport, hasFormerName, Williams Air Force Base]
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A.
Howard Air Force Base
Howard Air Force Base was a major United States Air Force installation in Panama that played a key role in military air operations and testing throughout the Cold War and beyond.
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B.
Luke Air Force Base
Luke Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force training installation primarily focused on preparing fighter pilots, particularly for the F-35 and F-16 aircraft.
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C.
Andrews Air Force Base
Andrews Air Force Base is a major U.S. military installation in Maryland best known as the home base for Air Force One and other aircraft supporting the President and senior government officials.
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D.
Otis Air Force Base
Otis Air Force Base is a former U.S. military installation on Cape Cod in Massachusetts that served as a key Air Force and Air National Guard facility during much of the 20th century.
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E.
Buckley Air Force Base
Buckley Air Force Base was a U.S. Air Force installation in Aurora, Colorado, that served primarily as a hub for missile warning, space surveillance, and intelligence operations before its redesignation as Buckley Space Force Base.
- 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: Williams Air Force Base Target entity description: Williams Air Force Base was a former United States Air Force training installation in Arizona that played a major role in pilot instruction before its closure and conversion to a civilian airport.
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A.
Howard Air Force Base
Howard Air Force Base was a major United States Air Force installation in Panama that played a key role in military air operations and testing throughout the Cold War and beyond.
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B.
Luke Air Force Base
Luke Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force training installation primarily focused on preparing fighter pilots, particularly for the F-35 and F-16 aircraft.
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C.
Andrews Air Force Base
Andrews Air Force Base is a major U.S. military installation in Maryland best known as the home base for Air Force One and other aircraft supporting the President and senior government officials.
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D.
Otis Air Force Base
Otis Air Force Base is a former U.S. military installation on Cape Cod in Massachusetts that served as a key Air Force and Air National Guard facility during much of the 20th century.
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E.
Buckley Air Force Base
Buckley Air Force Base was a U.S. Air Force installation in Aurora, Colorado, that served primarily as a hub for missile warning, space surveillance, and intelligence operations before its redesignation as Buckley Space Force Base.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | former United States Air Force base ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Williams AFB
NERFINISHED
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Williams Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| convertedTo | Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateClosed | 1993-09-30 ⓘ |
| dateOpened | 1941-12-07 ⓘ |
| elevation | 1380 ft ⓘ |
| garrison |
3525th Pilot Training Wing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
37th Flying Training Wing NERFINISHED ⓘ 78th Flying Training Wing NERFINISHED ⓘ 82d Fighter Group NERFINISHED ⓘ 82d Flying Training Wing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Arizona
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Installations of the United States Air Force in Arizona ⓘ Military installations closed in 1993 ⓘ World War II airfields in the United States ⓘ |
| hasFAAcode | CHD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIATAcode | CHD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasICAOcode | KCHD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostedAircraftType |
F-86 Sabre
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
P-40 Warhawk NERFINISHED ⓘ T-37 Tweet NERFINISHED ⓘ T-38 Talon NERFINISHED ⓘ T-6 Texan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Maricopa County, Arizona ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Phoenix metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Chandler, Arizona
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gilbert, Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ Mesa, Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Sonoran Desert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Charles L. Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator |
United States Air Force
ⓘ
United States Army Air Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Air Education and Training Command
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Air Training Command NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfProgram | Base Realignment and Closure 1991 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | pilot training ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | concrete ⓘ |
| successorFacility |
Arizona State University Polytechnic campus
NERFINISHED
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Chandler-Gilbert Community College Williams Campus NERFINISHED ⓘ Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Mountain Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trainingRole |
advanced pilot training
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undergraduate pilot training ⓘ |
| usedDuring |
Cold War
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World War II ⓘ |
| UTCoffset | UTC−07:00 ⓘ |
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: Williams Air Force Base Description of subject: Williams Air Force Base was a former United States Air Force training installation in Arizona that played a major role in pilot instruction before its closure and conversion to a civilian airport.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.