Bandaranaike International Airport
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Bandaranaike International Airport is the main international gateway to Sri Lanka, located near Colombo and serving as the country’s busiest and largest airport.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T689667 — 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: Bandaranaike International Airport Context triple: [SriLankan Airlines, hubAirport, Bandaranaike International Airport]
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Jaffna International Airport
Jaffna International Airport is a regional airport in northern Sri Lanka that serves as a key air gateway connecting the Jaffna Peninsula with other domestic and limited international destinations.
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Trincomalee Airport
Trincomalee Airport is a domestic airport in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, serving both civilian flights and military operations.
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Batticaloa Airport
Batticaloa Airport is a domestic airport in eastern Sri Lanka that serves the city of Batticaloa and its surrounding region.
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Nadi International Airport
Nadi International Airport is Fiji’s main international gateway and busiest airport, serving as the primary hub for international flights to and from the country.
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E.
Sabha Airport
Sabha Airport is a public airport serving the city of Sabha in southwestern Libya, providing regional air transport connections for the surrounding Fezzan region.
- 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: Bandaranaike International Airport Target entity description: Bandaranaike International Airport is the main international gateway to Sri Lanka, located near Colombo and serving as the country’s busiest and largest airport.
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A.
Jaffna International Airport
Jaffna International Airport is a regional airport in northern Sri Lanka that serves as a key air gateway connecting the Jaffna Peninsula with other domestic and limited international destinations.
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B.
Trincomalee Airport
Trincomalee Airport is a domestic airport in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, serving both civilian flights and military operations.
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C.
Batticaloa Airport
Batticaloa Airport is a domestic airport in eastern Sri Lanka that serves the city of Batticaloa and its surrounding region.
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D.
Nadi International Airport
Nadi International Airport is Fiji’s main international gateway and busiest airport, serving as the primary hub for international flights to and from the country.
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E.
Sabha Airport
Sabha Airport is a public airport serving the city of Sabha in southwestern Libya, providing regional air transport connections for the surrounding Fezzan region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Bandaranaike International Airport Description of subject: Bandaranaike International Airport is the main international gateway to Sri Lanka, located near Colombo and serving as the country’s busiest and largest airport.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bandaranaike International Airport (nearby, in Katunayake)
this entity surface form:
Bandaranaike
this entity surface form:
Bandaranaike
this entity surface form:
Colombo International Airport
Bandaranaike International Airport
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Bandaranaike International Airport
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Colombo International Airport, Katunayake
this entity surface form:
Bandaranaike International Airport (via road to Kandy)