Gaza International Airport
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Gaza International Airport, later known as Yasser Arafat International Airport, was the main airport in the Gaza Strip that operated briefly in the late 1990s and early 2000s before being rendered inoperable by conflict.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gaza International Airport canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8955306 — 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: Gaza International Airport Context triple: [Yasser Arafat International Airport, formerName, Gaza International Airport]
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A.
El Arish International Airport
El Arish International Airport is a public airport serving the town of El Arish in Egypt’s North Sinai region, handling both civilian and occasional charter or relief flights.
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B.
Ozar Airport
Ozar Airport is a public airport serving the city of Nashik in Maharashtra, India, handling both civilian and limited military aviation operations.
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C.
Haifa Airport
Haifa Airport is a small international airport in northern Israel serving domestic flights and limited regional routes for the city of Haifa.
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D.
Eilat Airport
Eilat Airport was a small domestic airport that served the resort city of Eilat in southern Israel until its closure and replacement by Ramon Airport.
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E.
Port Said Airport
Port Said Airport is a regional airport in northeastern Egypt serving the city of Port Said near the Mediterranean coast and the northern entrance to the Suez Canal.
- 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: Gaza International Airport Target entity description: Gaza International Airport, later known as Yasser Arafat International Airport, was the main airport in the Gaza Strip that operated briefly in the late 1990s and early 2000s before being rendered inoperable by conflict.
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A.
El Arish International Airport
El Arish International Airport is a public airport serving the town of El Arish in Egypt’s North Sinai region, handling both civilian and occasional charter or relief flights.
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B.
Ozar Airport
Ozar Airport is a public airport serving the city of Nashik in Maharashtra, India, handling both civilian and limited military aviation operations.
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C.
Haifa Airport
Haifa Airport is a small international airport in northern Israel serving domestic flights and limited regional routes for the city of Haifa.
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D.
Eilat Airport
Eilat Airport was a small domestic airport that served the resort city of Eilat in southern Israel until its closure and replacement by Ramon Airport.
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E.
Port Said Airport
Port Said Airport is a regional airport in northeastern Egypt serving the city of Port Said near the Mediterranean coast and the northern entrance to the Suez Canal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
defunct airport ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Yasser Arafat International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closedForTraffic | early 2000s ⓘ |
| constructionBegan | 1996 ⓘ |
| country | Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedBy | Moroccan architects ⓘ |
| destroyedBy | Israeli Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation |
320 ft
ⓘ
98 m ⓘ |
| featured | traditional Islamic architectural elements ⓘ |
| fundedBy |
Egypt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ Saudi Arabia NERFINISHED ⓘ Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ World Bank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadInternationalFlightsTo |
Egypt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ Saudi Arabia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IATAcode | GZA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | LVGZ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inauguratedBy |
Bill Clinton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yasser Arafat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inaugurationDate | 1998-12-14 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Gaza Strip
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southern Gaza Strip NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Yasser Arafat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Egypt–Gaza border
ⓘ
Rafah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1998 ⓘ |
| operator | Palestinian Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryCityServed |
Gaza City
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gaza Strip NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForClosure | Israeli–Palestinian conflict NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runwayCount | 1 ⓘ |
| runwayDesignation | 08/26 ⓘ |
| runwayDestroyed | 2001 ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
10108 ft
ⓘ
3081 m ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servedAirlines | Palestinian Airlines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedAs | main airport of Gaza Strip ⓘ |
| status |
closed
ⓘ
inoperable ⓘ |
| symbolized |
Palestinian self-rule
ⓘ
Palestinian state-building efforts ⓘ |
| terminalBuildingsDestroyed | 2001 ⓘ |
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: Gaza International Airport Description of subject: Gaza International Airport, later known as Yasser Arafat International Airport, was the main airport in the Gaza Strip that operated briefly in the late 1990s and early 2000s before being rendered inoperable by conflict.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Yasser Arafat International Airport (defunct, south of city)
→
formerName
→
Gaza International Airport
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subject surface form:
Yasser Arafat International Airport