Istanbul Atatürk Airport
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Istanbul Atatürk Airport is a major international airport in Istanbul, Turkey, that long served as the city’s primary air hub before most commercial traffic moved to the new Istanbul Airport.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Istanbul Atatürk Airport canonical | 1 |
| Istanbul Atatürk Airport operation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7175606 — 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: Istanbul Atatürk Airport Context triple: [General Directorate of State Airports Authority, operates, Istanbul Atatürk Airport]
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A.
Istanbul Airport
Istanbul Airport is a major international aviation hub in Turkey that serves as one of the world’s busiest airports and a primary base for Turkish Airlines.
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B.
Sabiha Gokcen International Airport
Sabiha Gokcen International Airport is Istanbul’s secondary international airport on the Asian side of the city, serving as a major hub for low-cost and regional flights.
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C.
Antalya Airport
Antalya Airport is a major international airport in Turkey that serves the popular Mediterranean resort city of Antalya and its surrounding tourist region.
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D.
Adnan Menderes Airport
Adnan Menderes Airport is the main international airport serving the city of Izmir and the surrounding Aegean region of Turkey.
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E.
Esenboğa International Airport
Esenboğa International Airport is the main international airport serving Turkey’s capital city, Ankara, handling both domestic and international flights.
- 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: Istanbul Atatürk Airport Target entity description: Istanbul Atatürk Airport is a major international airport in Istanbul, Turkey, that long served as the city’s primary air hub before most commercial traffic moved to the new Istanbul Airport.
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A.
Istanbul Airport
Istanbul Airport is a major international aviation hub in Turkey that serves as one of the world’s busiest airports and a primary base for Turkish Airlines.
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B.
Sabiha Gokcen International Airport
Sabiha Gokcen International Airport is Istanbul’s secondary international airport on the Asian side of the city, serving as a major hub for low-cost and regional flights.
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C.
Antalya Airport
Antalya Airport is a major international airport in Turkey that serves the popular Mediterranean resort city of Antalya and its surrounding tourist region.
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D.
Adnan Menderes Airport
Adnan Menderes Airport is the main international airport serving the city of Izmir and the surrounding Aegean region of Turkey.
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E.
Esenboğa International Airport
Esenboğa International Airport is the main international airport serving Turkey’s capital city, Ankara, handling both domestic and international flights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
international airport ⓘ |
| cityServed | Istanbul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closedToScheduledPassengerFlights | April 2019 ⓘ |
| country | Turkey ⓘ |
| distanceToCityCenter | about 24 km west of Istanbul city centre ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
163 ft
ⓘ
50 m ⓘ |
| formerIATAcode | ISL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerName | Yeşilköy Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNativeName | İstanbul Atatürk Havalimanı NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTerminal |
Domestic Terminal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
International Terminal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hubFor |
AtlasGlobal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Onur Air NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkish Airlines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IATAcode | IST NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | LTBA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bakırköy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
European side of Istanbul NERFINISHED ⓘ Istanbul ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | TRT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Sea of Marmara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mostCommercialTrafficMovedTo | Istanbul Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 2016 Istanbul Atatürk Airport attack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1953 ⓘ |
| operator |
General Directorate of State Airports Authority
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
TAV Airports Holding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Republic of Turkey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passengerOperationsCeased | 2019 ⓘ |
| passengerTraffic | one of the busiest airports in Europe before 2019 ⓘ |
| peakAnnualPassengerNumber | over 60 million passengers ⓘ |
| publicTransportConnection |
M1A metro line
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
bus services ⓘ taxis ⓘ |
| renamed | 1980s ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Istanbul Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runway |
Runway 05/23
ⓘ
Runway 17L/35R ⓘ Runway 17R/35L NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| securityIncident | suicide bombings and gun attack on 28 June 2016 ⓘ |
| servedAsPrimaryAirportFor | Istanbul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | UTC+03:00 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cargo flights
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general aviation ⓘ government flights ⓘ maintenance operations ⓘ |
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: Istanbul Atatürk Airport Description of subject: Istanbul Atatürk Airport is a major international airport in Istanbul, Turkey, that long served as the city’s primary air hub before most commercial traffic moved to the new Istanbul Airport.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Istanbul Atatürk Airport operation