Gando Air Base

E97388

Spanish Air Force installation military air base

Gando Air Base is a key Spanish Air Force installation located on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, serving both military operations and nearby civil aviation.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Gando Air Base canonical	2

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Spanish Air Force installation ⓘ military air base ⓘ
belongsToBranch	Ejército del Aire y del Espacio ⓘ
coordinatesRegion	air defense of Canary Islands ⓘ
country	Spain ⓘ
garrison	46th Wing ⓘ Canary Islands Air Command units ⓘ
hasCapability	24/7 alert operations ⓘ air policing ⓘ search and rescue support ⓘ
hasClimate	subtropical semi-arid ⓘ
hasFunction	staging point for operations in West Africa region ⓘ support base for humanitarian missions in Atlantic and African regions ⓘ
hasInfrastructure	command and control facilities ⓘ hangars ⓘ maintenance facilities ⓘ military aprons ⓘ
hasRole	air defense ⓘ maritime surveillance ⓘ quick reaction alert ⓘ
hasRunwaySurface	asphalt ⓘ
hosts	fighter aircraft ⓘ maritime patrol aircraft ⓘ search and rescue helicopters ⓘ transport aircraft ⓘ
ICAOCodeSharedWith	GCLP ⓘ
locatedNear	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ⓘ Telde ⓘ
locatedOn	eastern coast of Gran Canaria ⓘ
location	Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Canary Islands ⓘ Gran Canaria ⓘ
nearBodyOfWater	Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
operator	Spanish Air Force ⓘ surface form: Spanish Air and Space Force
partOf	province of Las Palmas ⓘ surface form: Province of Las Palmas
serves	Spanish Air Force ⓘ surface form: Spanish Air and Space Force
sharesFacilitiesWith	Gran Canaria Airport ⓘ
strategicImportance	key base for Atlantic approaches to Europe ⓘ key base for defense of Canary Islands ⓘ
timezone	Western European Time ⓘ
timezoneDST	Western European Summer Time ⓘ
usedBy	NATO allied aircraft (occasionally) ⓘ Spanish Navy aircraft (occasionally) ⓘ
usedFor	NATO-related operations ⓘ military air operations ⓘ support to civil aviation ⓘ
usesRunwaysOf	Gran Canaria Airport ⓘ

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: Gando Air Base
Description of subject: Gando Air Base is a key Spanish Air Force installation located on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, serving both military operations and nearby civil aviation.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Spanish Air Force → airBase → Gando Air Base ⓘ

Gando Airport → hasMilitaryBase → Gando Air Base ⓘ