IATA: ME
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IATA: ME is the two-letter airline designator assigned by the International Air Transport Association to Middle East Airlines, the flag carrier of Lebanon.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7716159 — 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: IATA: ME Context triple: [CEDAR JET, relatedTo, IATA: ME]
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A.
IATA Airline Coding Directory
The IATA Airline Coding Directory is an official reference publication by the International Air Transport Association that lists and standardizes airline designator codes, accounting codes, and related identifiers used throughout the global aviation industry.
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B.
SJC (IATA airport code)
SJC (IATA airport code) refers to Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport, a major commercial airport serving San Jose and the Silicon Valley region in California, USA.
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C.
GU (IATA airline designator)
GU is an IATA airline designator code assigned to a specific airline for identification in international air transport operations.
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D.
ICAO airport code system
The ICAO airport code system is an international standard that assigns unique four-letter identifiers to airports and aerodromes worldwide for use in aviation operations and air traffic management.
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E.
ICAO airline designator system
The ICAO airline designator system is an international coding scheme that assigns unique three-letter identifiers to airlines for use in flight planning, air traffic control, and aviation operations.
- 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: IATA: ME Target entity description: IATA: ME is the two-letter airline designator assigned by the International Air Transport Association to Middle East Airlines, the flag carrier of Lebanon.
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A.
IATA Airline Coding Directory
The IATA Airline Coding Directory is an official reference publication by the International Air Transport Association that lists and standardizes airline designator codes, accounting codes, and related identifiers used throughout the global aviation industry.
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B.
SJC (IATA airport code)
SJC (IATA airport code) refers to Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport, a major commercial airport serving San Jose and the Silicon Valley region in California, USA.
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C.
GU (IATA airline designator)
GU is an IATA airline designator code assigned to a specific airline for identification in international air transport operations.
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D.
ICAO airport code system
The ICAO airport code system is an international standard that assigns unique four-letter identifiers to airports and aerodromes worldwide for use in aviation operations and air traffic management.
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E.
ICAO airline designator system
The ICAO airline designator system is an international coding scheme that assigns unique three-letter identifiers to airlines for use in flight planning, air traffic control, and aviation operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IATA airline designator
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airline ⓘ flag carrier ⓘ |
| alliance | SkyTeam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| assignedBy | International Air Transport Association ⓘ |
| assignedTo | Middle East Airlines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedCountry | Lebanon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| callsign | CEDAR JET NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| codeType | two-letter airline designator ⓘ |
| flagCarrierOf | Lebanon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Beirut, Lebanon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IATACode | ME ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | MEA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represents | Middle East Airlines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | airline identification in reservations and ticketing systems ⓘ |
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: IATA: ME Description of subject: IATA: ME is the two-letter airline designator assigned by the International Air Transport Association to Middle East Airlines, the flag carrier of Lebanon.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.