Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport
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Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport is the main international airport serving Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, named in honor of nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport canonical | 6 |
| Bulawayo Airport | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T433682 — 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: Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport Context triple: [Bulawayo, hasAirport, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport]
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A.
Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport
Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport is the main international gateway to Zimbabwe, serving as the primary airport for the capital city, Harare.
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B.
Lanseria International Airport
Lanseria International Airport is a privately owned international airport serving the Johannesburg–Pretoria region in South Africa’s Gauteng province, handling domestic and regional flights as an alternative to O. R. Tambo International Airport.
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C.
Benina International Airport
Benina International Airport is the main international airport serving the city of Benghazi in eastern Libya.
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D.
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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E.
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is Kenya’s largest and busiest airport, serving as the main international gateway to the country and a major hub for East Africa.
- 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: Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport Target entity description: Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport is the main international airport serving Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, named in honor of nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo.
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A.
Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport
Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport is the main international gateway to Zimbabwe, serving as the primary airport for the capital city, Harare.
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B.
Lanseria International Airport
Lanseria International Airport is a privately owned international airport serving the Johannesburg–Pretoria region in South Africa’s Gauteng province, handling domestic and regional flights as an alternative to O. R. Tambo International Airport.
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C.
Benina International Airport
Benina International Airport is the main international airport serving the city of Benghazi in eastern Libya.
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D.
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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E.
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is Kenya’s largest and busiest airport, serving as the main international gateway to the country and a major hub for East Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
international airport ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport
ⓘ
surface form:
Bulawayo Airport
|
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Zimbabwe ⓘ |
| elevationFeet | 4359 ⓘ |
| elevationMeters | 1329 ⓘ |
| hasCargoFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| hasControlTower | yes ⓘ |
| hasDomesticFlights | yes ⓘ |
| hasInternationalFlights | yes ⓘ |
| hasPassengerTerminal | yes ⓘ |
| hasRunwayLighting | yes ⓘ |
| IATAcode | BUQ ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | FVBU ⓘ |
| isCivilAirport | yes ⓘ |
| isPublicUse | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bulawayo
ⓘ
Matabeleland South ⓘ
surface form:
Matabeleland South Province
Zimbabwe ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Joshua Nkomo ⓘ |
| namedForRoleOfHonoree | Zimbabwean nationalist leader ⓘ |
| runway | 13/31 ⓘ |
| runwayLengthMeters | 2588 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servesAs | main international airport for Bulawayo ⓘ |
| servesCity | Bulawayo ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Matabeleland
ⓘ
surface form:
southern Zimbabwe
|
| timezone | CAT ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +2 ⓘ |
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: Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport Description of subject: Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport is the main international airport serving Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, named in honor of nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport
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alternativeName
→
Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport
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this entity surface form:
Bulawayo Airport