BAB
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BAB is the IATA airport code for Beale Air Force Base, a major United States Air Force installation in California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BAB canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7768032 — 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: BAB Context triple: [Beale Air Force Base, IATAcode, BAB]
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A.
Ba
Ba is a town and district on the northwestern coast of Viti Levu in Fiji, known for its sugar industry and cultural diversity.
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B.
BA
BA is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for The Boeing Company, a major American aerospace and defense manufacturer.
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C.
BA
BA is a common abbreviation for Broken Arrow, a suburban city in northeastern Oklahoma.
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D.
BA
BA is the commonly used abbreviation for the British Academy, the United Kingdom’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
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E.
BA
BA is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for cars registered in Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia.
- 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: BAB Target entity description: BAB is the IATA airport code for Beale Air Force Base, a major United States Air Force installation in California.
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A.
Ba
Ba is a town and district on the northwestern coast of Viti Levu in Fiji, known for its sugar industry and cultural diversity.
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B.
BA
BA is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for The Boeing Company, a major American aerospace and defense manufacturer.
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C.
BA
BA is a common abbreviation for Broken Arrow, a suburban city in northeastern Oklahoma.
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D.
BA
BA is the commonly used abbreviation for the British Academy, the United Kingdom’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
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E.
BA
BA is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for cars registered in Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IATA airport code
ⓘ
United States Air Force base ⓘ |
| belongsToBranch | United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| denotes | Beale Air Force Base NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | 113 feet ⓘ |
| garrison | 9th Reconnaissance Wing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAirportType | military ⓘ |
| hasFAAcode | BAB NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIATAcode | BAB NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasICAOcode | KBAB NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLongRunway | true ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryCategory | military air base ⓘ |
| hostsUnit |
548th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
940th Air Refueling Wing NERFINISHED ⓘ 9th Reconnaissance Wing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMajorInstallation | true ⓘ |
| isServedByCode | BAB NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Yuba County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Edward Fitzgerald Beale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf | Air Combat Command NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations ⓘ |
| runwayCount | 1 ⓘ |
| runwayDesignation | 15/33 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | concrete ⓘ |
| timezone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| usedFor |
military aviation
ⓘ
reconnaissance aircraft operations ⓘ tanker aircraft 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: BAB Description of subject: BAB is the IATA airport code for Beale Air Force Base, a major United States Air Force installation in California.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.