Weelde Air Base
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Weelde Air Base is a Belgian military airfield used primarily for training, storage, and support operations within the country’s air defense infrastructure.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goetsenhoven Air Base | 1 |
| Weelde Air Base canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10250798 — 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: Weelde Air Base Context triple: [Belgian military airfield network, hasComponent, Weelde Air Base]
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A.
Melsbroek Air Base
Melsbroek Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield near Brussels that serves as the primary hub for the Belgian Air Component’s transport operations.
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B.
Kleine-Brogel Air Base
Kleine-Brogel Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield known for hosting fighter aircraft operations and reportedly storing U.S. nuclear weapons under NATO arrangements.
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C.
Leeuwarden Air Base
Leeuwarden Air Base is a major Royal Netherlands Air Force military airfield in the north of the Netherlands, used for fighter operations, training, and NATO missions.
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D.
Gavere-Semmerzake Airfield
Gavere-Semmerzake Airfield is a small public airfield in Belgium primarily used for general aviation and recreational flying.
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E.
Valkenburg air base
Valkenburg air base is a former Royal Netherlands Navy airfield in South Holland that historically served as a key maritime patrol and military aviation facility.
- 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: Weelde Air Base Target entity description: Weelde Air Base is a Belgian military airfield used primarily for training, storage, and support operations within the country’s air defense infrastructure.
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A.
Melsbroek Air Base
Melsbroek Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield near Brussels that serves as the primary hub for the Belgian Air Component’s transport operations.
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B.
Kleine-Brogel Air Base
Kleine-Brogel Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield known for hosting fighter aircraft operations and reportedly storing U.S. nuclear weapons under NATO arrangements.
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C.
Leeuwarden Air Base
Leeuwarden Air Base is a major Royal Netherlands Air Force military airfield in the north of the Netherlands, used for fighter operations, training, and NATO missions.
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D.
Gavere-Semmerzake Airfield
Gavere-Semmerzake Airfield is a small public airfield in Belgium primarily used for general aviation and recreational flying.
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E.
Valkenburg air base
Valkenburg air base is a former Royal Netherlands Navy airfield in South Holland that historically served as a key maritime patrol and military aviation facility.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airfield
ⓘ
military air base ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Belgium ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 105 feet ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
aircraft parking areas
ⓘ
hangars ⓘ single paved runway ⓘ taxiways ⓘ |
| hasType | military airfield ⓘ |
| ICAO code | EBWE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| location |
Flanders
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ravels NERFINISHED ⓘ Weelde NERFINISHED ⓘ province of Antwerp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Belgian Air Component NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Belgian air defense infrastructure ⓘ |
| runwayLength | approximately 2980 metres ⓘ |
| runwayOrientation | 07/25 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Belgian Air Cadets
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Belgian Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
aircraft storage
ⓘ
glider operations ⓘ logistics support ⓘ pilot training ⓘ storage ⓘ support operations ⓘ training ⓘ |
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: Weelde Air Base Description of subject: Weelde Air Base is a Belgian military airfield used primarily for training, storage, and support operations within the country’s air defense infrastructure.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Goetsenhoven Air Base