Westray Airport
E482765
Westray Airport is a small airfield in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, best known for being one end of the world’s shortest scheduled commercial flight.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Papa Westray Airport | 2 |
| Westray Airport canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4932880 — 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: Westray Airport Context triple: [Kirkwall Airport, hasRouteTo, Westray Airport]
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A.
Benbecula Airport
Benbecula Airport is a small regional airport in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides that provides vital air links for local communities and is primarily served by Loganair.
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B.
Tiree Airport
Tiree Airport is a small regional airport on the Isle of Tiree in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, providing vital air links between the island and the Scottish mainland.
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C.
Stornoway Airport
Stornoway Airport is a regional airport on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, providing vital domestic connections and serving as a key transport hub for the Western Isles.
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D.
Campbeltown Airport
Campbeltown Airport is a small regional airport on the Kintyre Peninsula in western Scotland, providing domestic flights and serving as a key transport link for the surrounding rural communities.
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E.
Sumburgh Airport
Sumburgh Airport is a key regional airport in the Shetland Islands of Scotland, serving as a primary gateway between the islands and mainland UK.
- 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: Westray Airport Target entity description: Westray Airport is a small airfield in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, best known for being one end of the world’s shortest scheduled commercial flight.
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A.
Benbecula Airport
Benbecula Airport is a small regional airport in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides that provides vital air links for local communities and is primarily served by Loganair.
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B.
Tiree Airport
Tiree Airport is a small regional airport on the Isle of Tiree in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, providing vital air links between the island and the Scottish mainland.
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C.
Stornoway Airport
Stornoway Airport is a regional airport on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, providing vital domestic connections and serving as a key transport hub for the Western Isles.
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D.
Campbeltown Airport
Campbeltown Airport is a small regional airport on the Kintyre Peninsula in western Scotland, providing domestic flights and serving as a key transport link for the surrounding rural communities.
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E.
Sumburgh Airport
Sumburgh Airport is a key regional airport in the Shetland Islands of Scotland, serving as a primary gateway between the islands and mainland UK.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ |
| airlineServedBy | Loganair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Airports in Orkney
ⓘ
Short-haul airports ⓘ |
| classification | short take-off and landing airfield ⓘ |
| connectedByRouteTo | Papa Westray Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| elevation |
29 feet
ⓘ
9 metres ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
grass runways
ⓘ
small terminal building ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid | visual approach only (no major instrument landing system) ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
Runway 01/19
ⓘ
Runway 09/27 ⓘ Runway 13/31 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasScheduledServiceTo |
Kirkwall Airport
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Papa Westray Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IATAcode | WRY NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | EGEW NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | being one end of the world’s shortest scheduled commercial flight ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Orkney Islands
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ Westray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWaterRegion | Northern Isles of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbySettlement | Pierowall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Orkney Islands Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownership | publicly owned ⓘ |
| regionServed | Orkney archipelago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulatoryAuthority | Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeDistance | Westray–Papa Westray route approximately 2.7 kilometres ⓘ |
| routeFlightTime | Westray–Papa Westray route scheduled flight time about 1 to 2 minutes ⓘ |
| runwayCount | 3 ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
Runway 01/19 approximately 527 metres
ⓘ
Runway 09/27 approximately 421 metres ⓘ Runway 13/31 approximately 291 metres ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | grass ⓘ |
| serves | island of Westray ⓘ |
| servesPopulation | residents of Westray ⓘ |
| supportsActivity |
cargo transport
ⓘ
inter-island air services ⓘ medical evacuation flights ⓘ tourism travel ⓘ |
| timezone | UTC±00:00 ⓘ |
| timezoneDST | UTC+01:00 ⓘ |
| usesAircraftType | Britten-Norman Islander 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: Westray Airport Description of subject: Westray Airport is a small airfield in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, best known for being one end of the world’s shortest scheduled commercial flight.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Papa Westray Airport
this entity surface form:
Papa Westray Airport