NIC
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NIC is the IATA airport code for Nicosia International Airport, the now-defunct main airport of Cyprus located near the capital city of Nicosia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NIC canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6501388 — 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: NIC Context triple: [Nicosia International Airport, IATAcode, NIC]
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A.
NIC
NIC is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Nicaragua.
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B.
NIC
NIC is an abbreviation commonly used to refer to North Infirmary Command, a medical or correctional facility unit.
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C.
NIC
NIC is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Kingdom’s National Infrastructure Commission, an independent body that advises the government on long-term infrastructure strategy and investment.
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D.
NIC.TM
NIC.TM is the official domain registry responsible for managing and administering Turkmenistan’s country-code top-level domain, .tm.
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E.
NET
NET is the stock ticker symbol for Cloudflare, Inc., a company that provides cloud-based web infrastructure and security 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: NIC Target entity description: NIC is the IATA airport code for Nicosia International Airport, the now-defunct main airport of Cyprus located near the capital city of Nicosia.
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A.
NIC
NIC is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Nicaragua.
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B.
NIC
NIC is an abbreviation commonly used to refer to North Infirmary Command, a medical or correctional facility unit.
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C.
NIC
NIC is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Kingdom’s National Infrastructure Commission, an independent body that advises the government on long-term infrastructure strategy and investment.
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D.
NIC.TM
NIC.TM is the official domain registry responsible for managing and administering Turkmenistan’s country-code top-level domain, .tm.
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E.
NET
NET is the stock ticker symbol for Cloudflare, Inc., a company that provides cloud-based web infrastructure and security services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IATA airport code
ⓘ
airport ⓘ |
| cityServed | Nicosia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closedForCommercialTraffic | 1974 ⓘ |
| country | Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| currentCondition | abandoned ⓘ |
| elevation | 722 ft ⓘ |
| IATA code | NIC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAO code | LCNC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Nicosia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | island of Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyLocality | Lakatamia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1939 ⓘ |
| operatorBeforeClosure | Cyprus Airways NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postClosureUse |
UN-controlled facility
ⓘ
occasional UN helicopter operations ⓘ |
| reasonForClosure | Turkish invasion of Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refersTo | Nicosia International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Nicosia District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runwayCount | 2 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servedAs |
hub for Cyprus Airways
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main airport of Cyprus ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| terminalBuildingStyle | modernist architecture ⓘ |
| usedAs |
civil airport
ⓘ
military air base ⓘ |
| usedBy | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| usedDuring |
World War II
ⓘ
surface form:
Second World War
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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: NIC Description of subject: NIC is the IATA airport code for Nicosia International Airport, the now-defunct main airport of Cyprus located near the capital city of Nicosia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nicosia International Airport