Butterworth Air Base

E650986

Royal Malaysian Air Force base military air base

Butterworth Air Base is a major Royal Malaysian Air Force installation in Penang that serves as a key regional hub for multinational military cooperation and operations under the Five Power Defence Arrangements.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Butterworth Air Base canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Royal Malaysian Air Force base ⓘ military air base ⓘ
coordinates	5.465°N 100.391°E ⓘ
country	Malaysia ⓘ
elevation	approximately 11 m ⓘ
formerOperator	Royal Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Australian Air Force (as primary operator) NERFINISHED ⓘ
garrison	Australian Defence Force personnel ⓘ Republic of Singapore Air Force personnel ⓘ Royal Malaysian Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel ⓘ United Kingdom forces (periodic) ⓘ
historicalUse	base for operations during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation ⓘ base for operations during the Malayan Emergency ⓘ major Commonwealth air base during the Cold War ⓘ
hosts	Australian Air Task Group rotations ⓘ FPDA Integrated Area Defence System activities ⓘ RAAF detachments ⓘ RNZAF detachments ⓘ RSAF detachments ⓘ multinational air exercises ⓘ
ICAOCode	WMKB NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedOn	Malay Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ
location	Butterworth, Penang NERFINISHED ⓘ Penang, Malaysia NERFINISHED ⓘ
nearbyCity	Butterworth NERFINISHED ⓘ
nearbyWaterBody	Penang Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ
operator	Royal Malaysian Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ
ownership	Government of Malaysia NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Five Power Defence Arrangements NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Malaysian Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ
role	FPDA integrated air defence operations ⓘ air defence ⓘ multinational training hub ⓘ regional security operations hub ⓘ
runway	18/36 ⓘ
runwayLength	approximately 2440 m ⓘ
runwaySurface	asphalt ⓘ
strategicImportance	key regional hub for FPDA operations ⓘ supports air operations over northern Malaysia ⓘ supports security of the Malacca Strait ⓘ
usedBy	Australian Defence Force NERFINISHED ⓘ Five Power Defence Arrangements member states NERFINISHED ⓘ Republic of Singapore Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Air Force ⓘ Royal Australian Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Malaysian Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal New Zealand Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ

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: Butterworth Air Base
Description of subject: Butterworth Air Base is a major Royal Malaysian Air Force installation in Penang that serves as a key regional hub for multinational military cooperation and operations under the Five Power Defence Arrangements.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Five Power Defence Arrangements → headquartersLocation → Butterworth Air Base ⓘ