RAF Linton-on-Ouse
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RAF Linton-on-Ouse was a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire, England, historically used for bomber and later fast-jet training operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| RAF Linton-on-Ouse canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7522411 — 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: RAF Linton-on-Ouse Context triple: [No. 264 Squadron RAF, garrison, RAF Linton-on-Ouse]
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RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey
RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, that served as a key fighter base during the Second World War.
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RAF Leconfield
RAF Leconfield is a former Royal Air Force station in East Yorkshire, England, historically used as a fighter airfield during the Second World War and later as a training and support base.
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C.
RAF Leeming
RAF Leeming is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire, England, that has served as an important base for various fast-jet, training, and support units.
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D.
RAF Wittering
RAF Wittering is a Royal Air Force station in Cambridgeshire, England, historically known as the "Home of the Harrier" and an important base for fast jet and support operations.
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E.
RAF Ensign
The RAF Ensign is the official flag of the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force, featuring a sky-blue field with the Union Flag in the canton and the RAF roundel.
- 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: RAF Linton-on-Ouse Target entity description: RAF Linton-on-Ouse was a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire, England, historically used for bomber and later fast-jet training operations.
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A.
RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey
RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, that served as a key fighter base during the Second World War.
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B.
RAF Leconfield
RAF Leconfield is a former Royal Air Force station in East Yorkshire, England, historically used as a fighter airfield during the Second World War and later as a training and support base.
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C.
RAF Leeming
RAF Leeming is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire, England, that has served as an important base for various fast-jet, training, and support units.
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D.
RAF Wittering
RAF Wittering is a Royal Air Force station in Cambridgeshire, England, historically known as the "Home of the Harrier" and an important base for fast jet and support operations.
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E.
RAF Ensign
The RAF Ensign is the official flag of the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force, featuring a sky-blue field with the Union Flag in the canton and the RAF roundel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Royal Air Force station ⓘ |
| aircraftOperated |
Avro Lancaster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grob Tutor NERFINISHED ⓘ Handley Page Whitley NERFINISHED ⓘ Hawker Siddeley Jet Provost NERFINISHED ⓘ Short Tucano T1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Vickers Wellington NERFINISHED ⓘ de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closureAnnounced | 2018 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| distanceFromYork | approximately 10 miles north-west ⓘ |
| elevation |
16 metres
ⓘ
52 feet ⓘ |
| flyingTrainingCeased | 2019 ⓘ |
| gridReference | SE494620 ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
Runway 04/22
ⓘ
Runway 10/28 ⓘ Runway 15/33 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostedUnit |
No. 1 Flying Training School RAF
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
No. 1481 (Bombing) Gunnery Flight NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 207 Squadron RAF NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 408 Squadron RCAF NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 426 Squadron RCAF NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 427 Squadron RCAF NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 429 Squadron RCAF NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 433 Squadron RCAF NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 6 Flying Training School RAF NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 642 Volunteer Gliding Squadron NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 72 Squadron RAF NERFINISHED ⓘ Northumbrian Universities Air Squadron NERFINISHED ⓘ Yorkshire Universities Air Squadron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | EGXU NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
North Yorkshire ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Linton-on-Ouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearCity | York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1937 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
No. 22 Group RAF
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RAF Training Command NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postwarRole |
fast-jet training
ⓘ
flying training station ⓘ |
| primaryWartimeRole | bomber operations ⓘ |
| region | Yorkshire and the Humber ⓘ |
| role |
basic flying training station
ⓘ
bomber station ⓘ fast-jet training station ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| status | closed as an RAF flying station ⓘ |
| usedBy | Royal Canadian Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedDuring |
World War II
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surface form:
Second World War
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How these facts were elicited
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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: RAF Linton-on-Ouse Description of subject: RAF Linton-on-Ouse was a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire, England, historically used for bomber and later fast-jet training operations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.