Tawau Airport
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Tawau Airport is a public airport in Sabah, Malaysia, serving the town of Tawau and acting as a key gateway to the southeastern region of Borneo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tawau Airport canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12641746 — 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: Tawau Airport Context triple: [Tawau, hasAirport, Tawau Airport]
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A.
Lahad Datu Airport
Lahad Datu Airport is a small domestic airport in Sabah, Malaysia, serving the town of Lahad Datu and nearby regions on the island of Borneo.
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B.
Sandakan Airport
Sandakan Airport is a domestic airport in Sabah, Malaysia, serving the city of Sandakan and acting as a key gateway to the wildlife and nature attractions of the region.
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C.
Kuching International Airport
Kuching International Airport is a major airport in Sarawak, Malaysia, serving as a key gateway to Borneo and an important regional hub for domestic and international flights.
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D.
Labuan Airport
Labuan Airport is a public airport serving the island and federal territory of Labuan in Malaysia, handling domestic flights and some regional connections.
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E.
Keningau Airport
Keningau Airport is a small regional airfield serving the town of Keningau in the interior of Sabah, Malaysia.
- 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: Tawau Airport Target entity description: Tawau Airport is a public airport in Sabah, Malaysia, serving the town of Tawau and acting as a key gateway to the southeastern region of Borneo.
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A.
Lahad Datu Airport
Lahad Datu Airport is a small domestic airport in Sabah, Malaysia, serving the town of Lahad Datu and nearby regions on the island of Borneo.
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B.
Sandakan Airport
Sandakan Airport is a domestic airport in Sabah, Malaysia, serving the city of Sandakan and acting as a key gateway to the wildlife and nature attractions of the region.
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C.
Kuching International Airport
Kuching International Airport is a major airport in Sarawak, Malaysia, serving as a key gateway to Borneo and an important regional hub for domestic and international flights.
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D.
Labuan Airport
Labuan Airport is a public airport serving the island and federal territory of Labuan in Malaysia, handling domestic flights and some regional connections.
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E.
Keningau Airport
Keningau Airport is a small regional airfield serving the town of Keningau in the interior of Sabah, Malaysia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ |
| cityServed |
Kunak
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lahad Datu NERFINISHED ⓘ Semporna NERFINISHED ⓘ Tawau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Kota Kinabalu International Airport
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kuala Lumpur International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Labuan Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Sandakan Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Malaysia ⓘ |
| hasHubAirline |
AirAsia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MASwings NERFINISHED ⓘ Malaysia Airlines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPassengerService |
domestic flights
ⓘ
regional flights ⓘ |
| hasPublicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| hasRole | key gateway to southeastern region of Borneo ⓘ |
| hasRunwayOrientation | northeast–southwest ⓘ |
| hasType | civil ⓘ |
| IATAcode | TWU NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | WBKW NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInCountrySubdivision | state of Sabah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Borneo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sabah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Tawau Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Tawau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Government of Malaysia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse | commercial aviation ⓘ |
| region | East Malaysia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runway | 06/24 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves |
Tawau
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southeastern Sabah ⓘ southeastern region of Borneo ⓘ |
| servesAs |
gateway to Mabul Island
ⓘ
gateway to Sipadan Island ⓘ gateway to diving destinations off Semporna ⓘ gateway to southeastern Sabah ⓘ |
| servesPopulation | residents of Tawau Division ⓘ |
| servesTourism |
dive tourism
ⓘ
eco-tourism in Sabah ⓘ |
| state | Sabah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timezone | Malaysia Time ⓘ |
| UTCoffset | +08:00 ⓘ |
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: Tawau Airport Description of subject: Tawau Airport is a public airport in Sabah, Malaysia, serving the town of Tawau and acting as a key gateway to the southeastern region of Borneo.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.