IXB
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IXB is the IATA airport code for Bagdogra Airport, a key domestic and international gateway serving Siliguri and the surrounding region in West Bengal, India.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IXB canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7029089 — 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: IXB Context triple: [Bagdogra Airport, IATAcode, IXB]
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A.
IBX
IBX is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Ibex Airlines in international aviation operations.
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B.
IBI
IBI is an academic institute focused on advancing research, education, and practice in business innovation and entrepreneurship.
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C.
.IXIC
.IXIC is the ticker symbol for the Nasdaq Composite Index, a major U.S. stock market index tracking thousands of equities listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, heavily weighted toward technology companies.
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D.
IXZ
IXZ is the IATA airport code for Veer Savarkar International Airport serving Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.
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E.
IXS
IXS is the three-letter IATA airport code assigned to Silchar Airport in Assam, India.
- 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: IXB Target entity description: IXB is the IATA airport code for Bagdogra Airport, a key domestic and international gateway serving Siliguri and the surrounding region in West Bengal, India.
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A.
IBX
IBX is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Ibex Airlines in international aviation operations.
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B.
IBI
IBI is an academic institute focused on advancing research, education, and practice in business innovation and entrepreneurship.
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C.
.IXIC
.IXIC is the ticker symbol for the Nasdaq Composite Index, a major U.S. stock market index tracking thousands of equities listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, heavily weighted toward technology companies.
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D.
IXZ
IXZ is the IATA airport code for Veer Savarkar International Airport serving Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.
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E.
IXS
IXS is the three-letter IATA airport code assigned to Silchar Airport in Assam, India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IATA airport code
ⓘ
airport ⓘ |
| airportType |
civil enclave
ⓘ
international airport ⓘ |
| cityServed | Siliguri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| distanceFromSiliguri | approximately 16 km ⓘ |
| hasPassengerFlights |
domestic
ⓘ
international ⓘ |
| hasRunway | Runway 18/36 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IATA code | IXB NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAO code | VEBD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bagdogra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Darjeeling district NERFINISHED ⓘ India ⓘ West Bengal ⓘ |
| militaryPresence | Indian Air Force base nearby ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Siliguri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyState | Sikkim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Airports Authority of India ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
gateway to Darjeeling
ⓘ
gateway to Sikkim ⓘ |
| represents | Bagdogra Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves | Siliguri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
North Bengal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sikkim NERFINISHED ⓘ northeastern India ⓘ parts of Bihar ⓘ |
| state | West Bengal ⓘ |
| timeZone | IST ⓘ |
| usedFor |
civil aviation
ⓘ
tourism access to eastern Himalayas ⓘ |
| UTCoffset | +05:30 ⓘ |
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: IXB Description of subject: IXB is the IATA airport code for Bagdogra Airport, a key domestic and international gateway serving Siliguri and the surrounding region in West Bengal, India.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.