Great Lakes Airlines
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Great Lakes Airlines was a regional airline in the United States that primarily operated commuter flights to smaller communities across the Midwest and Western states.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Lakes Airlines canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5152510 — 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: Great Lakes Airlines Context triple: [United Express, formerOperator, Great Lakes Airlines]
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A.
Endeavor Air
Endeavor Air is a U.S.-based regional airline that operates Delta Connection flights, providing feeder services to Delta Air Lines’ domestic and short-haul international network.
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B.
Mesa Airlines
Mesa Airlines is a U.S.-based regional airline that operates feeder flights for major carriers under their brand names.
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C.
Air Wisconsin
Air Wisconsin is a regional airline in the United States that operates feeder flights for major carriers under capacity purchase agreements.
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D.
Eastern Airways
Eastern Airways is a British regional airline operating scheduled passenger services across the United Kingdom and parts of Europe.
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E.
Alliance Airlines
Alliance Airlines is an Australian regional and charter airline that operates passenger and fly-in fly-out services across domestic routes.
- 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: Great Lakes Airlines Target entity description: Great Lakes Airlines was a regional airline in the United States that primarily operated commuter flights to smaller communities across the Midwest and Western states.
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A.
Endeavor Air
Endeavor Air is a U.S.-based regional airline that operates Delta Connection flights, providing feeder services to Delta Air Lines’ domestic and short-haul international network.
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B.
Mesa Airlines
Mesa Airlines is a U.S.-based regional airline that operates feeder flights for major carriers under their brand names.
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C.
Air Wisconsin
Air Wisconsin is a regional airline in the United States that operates feeder flights for major carriers under capacity purchase agreements.
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D.
Eastern Airways
Eastern Airways is a British regional airline operating scheduled passenger services across the United Kingdom and parts of Europe.
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E.
Alliance Airlines
Alliance Airlines is an Australian regional and charter airline that operates passenger and fly-in fly-out services across domestic routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct airline
ⓘ
regional airline ⓘ |
| callsign | LAKES AIR NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ceasedOperations | 2018 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fleetType |
Beechcraft 1900D
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focus | small communities ⓘ |
| founded | 1977 ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Cheyenne, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IATAcode | ZK NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | GLA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalName | Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedFromAirport |
Albuquerque International Sunport
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alliance Municipal Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Chadron Municipal Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Cheyenne Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Cortez Municipal Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Denver International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Farmington Four Corners Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Gillette–Campbell County Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Huron Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Laramie Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Moab Canyonlands Field NERFINISHED ⓘ Page Municipal Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierre Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Prescott Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock Springs–Sweetwater County Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottsbluff Western Nebraska Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Sheridan County Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Show Low Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Vernal Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Watertown Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedInRegion |
Midwestern United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedUnder | Essential Air Service program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatingCertificateStatus | suspended 2018 ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryHub | Denver International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForCessation |
pilot shortage
ⓘ
regulatory changes to pilot qualification rules ⓘ |
| secondaryHub |
Los Angeles International Airport
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceType |
commuter flights
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scheduled passenger service ⓘ |
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: Great Lakes Airlines Description of subject: Great Lakes Airlines was a regional airline in the United States that primarily operated commuter flights to smaller communities across the Midwest and Western states.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.