The Boneyard
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The Boneyard is the vast U.S. military aircraft storage and preservation facility at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, where thousands of retired aircraft are kept for long-term storage, parts reclamation, and disposal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Boneyard canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6546971 — 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: The Boneyard Context triple: [309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, nickname, The Boneyard]
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A.
The Boneyard
The Boneyard is a dinosaur-themed playground and interactive fossil-dig site located within the DinoLand U.S.A. area of Disney's Animal Kingdom.
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B.
The Happy Hunting-Grounds
The Happy Hunting-Grounds is a travel and adventure book by Kermit Roosevelt recounting his experiences and observations during expeditions in the American West.
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C.
The Pit
The Pit is a famed college basketball arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico, renowned for its intense atmosphere and distinctive sunken design.
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D.
The Killing Ground
The Killing Ground is a thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring his recurring character Sean Dillon in a high-stakes tale of terrorism, kidnapping, and covert operations.
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E.
The Ditch
The Ditch is a colloquial nickname for the Tasman Sea, the body of water separating Australia and New Zealand.
- 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: The Boneyard Target entity description: The Boneyard is the vast U.S. military aircraft storage and preservation facility at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, where thousands of retired aircraft are kept for long-term storage, parts reclamation, and disposal.
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A.
The Boneyard
The Boneyard is a dinosaur-themed playground and interactive fossil-dig site located within the DinoLand U.S.A. area of Disney's Animal Kingdom.
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B.
The Happy Hunting-Grounds
The Happy Hunting-Grounds is a travel and adventure book by Kermit Roosevelt recounting his experiences and observations during expeditions in the American West.
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C.
The Pit
The Pit is a famed college basketball arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico, renowned for its intense atmosphere and distinctive sunken design.
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D.
The Killing Ground
The Killing Ground is a thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring his recurring character Sean Dillon in a high-stakes tale of terrorism, kidnapping, and covert operations.
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E.
The Ditch
The Ditch is a colloquial nickname for the Tasman Sea, the body of water separating Australia and New Zealand.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aircraft storage facility
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military facility ⓘ |
| advantage |
alkaline soil suitable for supporting parked aircraft without paving
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low humidity for corrosion control ⓘ minimal rainfall for aircraft preservation ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
AMARG
NERFINISHED
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Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group NERFINISHED ⓘ aircraft boneyard ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Davis–Monthan Air Force Base
NERFINISHED
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Tucson metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | arid ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasProcess |
application of protective coatings
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demilitarization of retired aircraft ⓘ mothballing of aircraft ⓘ periodic inspection of stored aircraft ⓘ reclamation of reusable components ⓘ scrapping and recycling of aircraft materials ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Arizona
NERFINISHED
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Davis–Monthan Air Force Base NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonoran Desert NERFINISHED ⓘ Tucson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Mountain Standard Time ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the world’s largest aircraft storage facilities
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large concentration of stored aircraft ⓘ rows of preserved aircraft visible from the air ⓘ |
| operatedBy | 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf |
Air Force Sustainment Center
NERFINISHED
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United States Air Force Materiel Command NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
aircraft disposal
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aircraft preservation ⓘ aircraft regeneration ⓘ long-term aircraft storage ⓘ parts reclamation ⓘ |
| stores |
foreign military aircraft under U.S. custody
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retired U.S. Air Force aircraft ⓘ retired U.S. Army aircraft ⓘ retired U.S. Coast Guard aircraft ⓘ retired U.S. Marine Corps aircraft ⓘ retired U.S. Navy aircraft ⓘ retired government agency aircraft ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
aerial photography
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documentaries about military aviation ⓘ news reports on U.S. military drawdowns ⓘ |
| surfaceType | hard desert soil ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cannibalization of aircraft for spare parts
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preservation of aircraft for potential future use ⓘ scrapping of obsolete aircraft ⓘ storage of government aircraft ⓘ storage of retired military aircraft ⓘ storage of surplus military aircraft ⓘ |
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: The Boneyard Description of subject: The Boneyard is the vast U.S. military aircraft storage and preservation facility at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, where thousands of retired aircraft are kept for long-term storage, parts reclamation, and disposal.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group