Wilson Airport
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Wilson Airport is a busy domestic and regional airport in Nairobi, Kenya, serving general aviation, charter flights, and short-haul passenger services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wilson Airport canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T309484 — 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: Wilson Airport Context triple: [Nairobi, hasAirport, Wilson Airport]
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A.
Sawyer International Airport
Sawyer International Airport is a public airport serving commercial and general aviation needs for the Marquette region in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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B.
Cyril E. King Airport
Cyril E. King Airport is the main commercial airport serving St. Thomas and the surrounding U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.
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C.
Nantucket Memorial Airport
Nantucket Memorial Airport is the primary commercial airport serving Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, providing regional air connections to the mainland and other destinations.
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D.
Stanstead Airport
Stanstead Airport is a railway station in Essex, England, serving London Stansted Airport with regional and intercity train connections.
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E.
Avalon Airport
Avalon Airport is a regional airport in Victoria, Australia, serving the Greater Melbourne and Geelong areas with domestic flights and some international and low-cost carrier 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: Wilson Airport Target entity description: Wilson Airport is a busy domestic and regional airport in Nairobi, Kenya, serving general aviation, charter flights, and short-haul passenger services.
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A.
Sawyer International Airport
Sawyer International Airport is a public airport serving commercial and general aviation needs for the Marquette region in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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B.
Cyril E. King Airport
Cyril E. King Airport is the main commercial airport serving St. Thomas and the surrounding U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.
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C.
Nantucket Memorial Airport
Nantucket Memorial Airport is the primary commercial airport serving Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, providing regional air connections to the mainland and other destinations.
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D.
Stanstead Airport
Stanstead Airport is a railway station in Essex, England, serving London Stansted Airport with regional and intercity train connections.
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E.
Avalon Airport
Avalon Airport is a regional airport in Victoria, Australia, serving the Greater Melbourne and Geelong areas with domestic flights and some international and low-cost carrier operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
domestic airport ⓘ public airport ⓘ |
| cityServed | Nairobi ⓘ |
| country | Kenya ⓘ |
| distanceFromCityCentre | approximately 4 km southwest of Nairobi CBD ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
1688 m
ⓘ
5536 ft ⓘ |
| formerName | Nairobi West Aerodrome ⓘ |
| handlesTrafficType |
cargo flights
ⓘ
non-scheduled charter flights ⓘ scheduled passenger flights ⓘ |
| hasHelicopterOperations | yes ⓘ |
| hasPassengerTerminal | yes ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
Runway 07/25
ⓘ
Runway 14/32 ⓘ |
| IATAcode | WIL ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | HKNW ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kenya
ⓘ
Nairobi ⓘ Nairobi County ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Nairobi
ⓘ
surface form:
Nairobi central business district
|
| namedAfter | Florence Kerr Wilson ⓘ |
| nearbyAirport | Jomo Kenyatta International Airport ⓘ |
| opened | 1930s ⓘ |
| operator | Kenya Airports Authority ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
business charter flights
ⓘ
flight training ⓘ tourism-related flights ⓘ |
| regionServed |
East Africa
ⓘ
Kenya ⓘ |
| runwayCount | 2 ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
Runway 07/25: 1,463 m
ⓘ
Runway 07/25: 4,798 ft ⓘ Runway 14/32: 1,540 m ⓘ Runway 14/32: 5,052 ft ⓘ |
| runwaySurface |
Runway 07/25: asphalt
ⓘ
Runway 14/32: asphalt ⓘ |
| serves |
charter flights
ⓘ
domestic flights ⓘ general aviation ⓘ regional flights ⓘ short-haul passenger services ⓘ |
| servesAsHubFor |
Airkenya Express
ⓘ
Fly540 (some operations) ⓘ Safarilink Aviation ⓘ |
| timeZone | East Africa Time ⓘ |
| UTCoffset | +3 ⓘ |
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: Wilson Airport Description of subject: Wilson Airport is a busy domestic and regional airport in Nairobi, Kenya, serving general aviation, charter flights, and short-haul passenger services.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.