Meigs Field
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Meigs Field was a former single-runway airport on Chicago’s lakefront that served general aviation and corporate aircraft before being controversially closed and converted into parkland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meigs Field canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6511395 — 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: Meigs Field Context triple: [Northerly Island, formerlyKnownAs, Meigs Field]
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A.
Stagg Field
Stagg Field was the University of Chicago’s athletic field and stadium, historically significant as the site of the world’s first controlled nuclear chain reaction.
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B.
Hitchcock Field
Hitchcock Field is the primary outdoor athletics venue at Amherst College, serving as the home field for the college’s varsity sports teams.
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C.
Hadlock Field
Hadlock Field is a minor league baseball stadium in Portland, Maine, best known as the home of the Portland Sea Dogs, the Double-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox.
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D.
McCall Field
McCall Field was the original name of Calgary’s main airport, which later became known as Calgary International Airport.
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E.
Geiger Field
Geiger Field was the original name of the airport in Spokane, Washington that later became Spokane International Airport, historically serving as a military airfield before its transition to civilian use.
- 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: Meigs Field Target entity description: Meigs Field was a former single-runway airport on Chicago’s lakefront that served general aviation and corporate aircraft before being controversially closed and converted into parkland.
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A.
Stagg Field
Stagg Field was the University of Chicago’s athletic field and stadium, historically significant as the site of the world’s first controlled nuclear chain reaction.
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B.
Hitchcock Field
Hitchcock Field is the primary outdoor athletics venue at Amherst College, serving as the home field for the college’s varsity sports teams.
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C.
Hadlock Field
Hadlock Field is a minor league baseball stadium in Portland, Maine, best known as the home of the Portland Sea Dogs, the Double-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox.
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D.
McCall Field
McCall Field was the original name of Calgary’s main airport, which later became known as Calgary International Airport.
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E.
Geiger Field
Geiger Field was the original name of the airport in Spokane, Washington that later became Spokane International Airport, historically serving as a military airfield before its transition to civilian use.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
defunct airport ⓘ general aviation airport ⓘ |
| closed | 2003 ⓘ |
| closedBy | Mayor Richard M. Daley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closureAction | runway destroyed overnight by city order ⓘ |
| closureType | controversial closure ⓘ |
| conversionCompleted | mid-2000s ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| elevation_ft | 593 ⓘ |
| featuredIn | Microsoft Flight Simulator NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadControlTower | yes ⓘ |
| hadTerminalBuilding | yes ⓘ |
| hasApproach | visual approach ⓘ |
| hasCoordinates | 41.8589°N 87.6078°W ⓘ |
| hasFAAcode | CGX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIATAcode | CGX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasICAOcode | KCGX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRunway | Runway 18/36 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRunwayCount | 1 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago
Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea | Burnham Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Chicago Loop
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Museum Campus NERFINISHED ⓘ Soldier Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Lake Michigan shoreline
ⓘ
Northerly Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| Merrill C. Meigs_role | Chicago Herald and Examiner publisher ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Merrill C. Meigs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversial 2003 destruction of runway
ⓘ
proximity to downtown Chicago ⓘ |
| opened | 1948 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Chicago Department of Aviation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | City of Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postClosureUse |
Northerly Island Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
parkland ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
corporate aviation
ⓘ
general aviation ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| runwayLength_ft | 3899 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servedAs | reliever airport ⓘ |
| servedCity | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedTrafficType | VFR traffic ⓘ |
| wasSubjectOf |
FAA enforcement action against City of Chicago
ⓘ
legal disputes over closure ⓘ |
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: Meigs Field Description of subject: Meigs Field was a former single-runway airport on Chicago’s lakefront that served general aviation and corporate aircraft before being controversially closed and converted into parkland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.