Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
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Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport is a major international airport in southern Sri Lanka, known for its modern facilities and relatively low traffic compared to the country’s main airport in Colombo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7098014 — 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: Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport Context triple: [Hambantota, hasAirport, Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport]
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A.
Bandaranaike International Airport
Bandaranaike International Airport is the main international gateway to Sri Lanka, located near Colombo and serving as the country’s busiest and largest airport.
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B.
Jaffna International Airport
Jaffna International Airport is a regional airport in northern Sri Lanka that serves as a key air gateway connecting the Jaffna Peninsula with other domestic and limited international destinations.
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C.
Trincomalee Airport
Trincomalee Airport is a domestic airport in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, serving both civilian flights and military operations.
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D.
Ratmalana Airport
Ratmalana Airport is a major domestic and former international airport serving the Colombo area in Sri Lanka.
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E.
Batticaloa Airport
Batticaloa Airport is a domestic airport in eastern Sri Lanka that serves the city of Batticaloa and its surrounding region.
- 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: Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport Target entity description: Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport is a major international airport in southern Sri Lanka, known for its modern facilities and relatively low traffic compared to the country’s main airport in Colombo.
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A.
Bandaranaike International Airport
Bandaranaike International Airport is the main international gateway to Sri Lanka, located near Colombo and serving as the country’s busiest and largest airport.
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B.
Jaffna International Airport
Jaffna International Airport is a regional airport in northern Sri Lanka that serves as a key air gateway connecting the Jaffna Peninsula with other domestic and limited international destinations.
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C.
Trincomalee Airport
Trincomalee Airport is a domestic airport in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, serving both civilian flights and military operations.
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D.
Ratmalana Airport
Ratmalana Airport is a major domestic and former international airport serving the Colombo area in Sri Lanka.
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E.
Batticaloa Airport
Batticaloa Airport is a domestic airport in eastern Sri Lanka that serves the city of Batticaloa and its surrounding region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport in Sri Lanka
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international airport ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Hambantota International Airport
NERFINISHED
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Mattala International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| distanceFromColomboByAir | approximately 230 km southeast ⓘ |
| hasAccessRoad | yes ⓘ |
| hasApronForAircraftParking | yes ⓘ |
| hasCargoFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| hasCargoTerminal | yes ⓘ |
| hasCarParking | yes ⓘ |
| hasCheckInCounters | yes ⓘ |
| hasControlTower | yes ⓘ |
| hasCustomsFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| hasDutyFreeShops | yes ⓘ |
| hasFireAndRescueServices | yes ⓘ |
| hasImmigrationFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAids | yes ⓘ |
| hasPassengerBoardingBridges | yes ⓘ |
| hasPassengerTerminal | yes ⓘ |
| hasSecurityScreening | yes ⓘ |
| hasTerminalBuilding | single passenger terminal ⓘ |
| IATAcode | HRI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | VCRI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isConnectedByRoadTo | Hambantota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isLocatedNear | Mattala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOperatedBy | Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Sri Lanka airport network ⓘ |
| isPublicAirport | yes ⓘ |
| isSecondInternationalAirportOf | Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
low passenger traffic
ⓘ
modern facilities ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hambantota District
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southern Province, Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mahinda Rajapaksa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 2013-03-18 ⓘ |
| openingYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| primaryAirportOf | Hambantota region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runwayCount | 1 ⓘ |
| runwayDesignation | 05/23 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves | Hambantota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesRegion | southern Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| supportsDomesticFlights | yes ⓘ |
| supportsInternationalFlights | yes ⓘ |
| timeZone | Sri Lanka Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport Description of subject: Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport is a major international airport in southern Sri Lanka, known for its modern facilities and relatively low traffic compared to the country’s main airport in Colombo.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Limited
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operates
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Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
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