Thumrait Air Base
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Thumrait Air Base is a Royal Air Force of Oman military airfield in southern Oman that serves as a key hub for regional air operations and international exercises.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thumrait Air Base canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13450096 — 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: Thumrait Air Base Context triple: [RAFO, hasBase, Thumrait Air Base]
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A.
Gando 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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B.
Rayak Air Base
Rayak Air Base is a key military airfield in Lebanon that serves as one of the main operational bases of the Lebanese Air Force.
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C.
Mitiga Air Base
Mitiga Air Base is a major military and civilian airport facility located near Tripoli, Libya.
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D.
Mingaladon Air Base
Mingaladon Air Base is a major military airfield near Yangon that serves as one of the principal operational and logistical hubs of the Myanmar Air Force.
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E.
Meiktila Air Base
Meiktila Air Base is a major Myanmar Air Force installation in central Myanmar that serves as a key hub for air operations and military aviation activities.
- 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: Thumrait Air Base Target entity description: Thumrait Air Base is a Royal Air Force of Oman military airfield in southern Oman that serves as a key hub for regional air operations and international exercises.
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A.
Gando 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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B.
Rayak Air Base
Rayak Air Base is a key military airfield in Lebanon that serves as one of the main operational bases of the Lebanese Air Force.
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C.
Mitiga Air Base
Mitiga Air Base is a major military and civilian airport facility located near Tripoli, Libya.
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D.
Mingaladon Air Base
Mingaladon Air Base is a major military airfield near Yangon that serves as one of the principal operational and logistical hubs of the Myanmar Air Force.
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E.
Meiktila Air Base
Meiktila Air Base is a major Myanmar Air Force installation in central Myanmar that serves as a key hub for air operations and military aviation activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airfield
ⓘ
military air base ⓘ |
| allianceUse | NATO partner exercises (visiting forces) ⓘ |
| basedAircraftType |
F-16 Fighting Falcon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SEPECAT Jaguar (historical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedUnit |
RAFO No. 1 Squadron
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RAFO No. 2 Squadron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Oman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation | 1520 ft ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
accommodation for personnel
ⓘ
air traffic control tower ⓘ fuel storage facilities ⓘ hardened aircraft shelters ⓘ maintenance hangars ⓘ munitions storage area ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid |
TACAN (Thumrait)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
VOR/DME (Thumrait) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRunway | Runway 17/35 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalUse | forward air base during Dhofar War ⓘ |
| hosts |
US military deployments (temporary)
ⓘ
multinational air exercises ⓘ |
| IATACode | TTH NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | OOTH NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dhofar Governorate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southern Oman ⓘ |
| near | Thumrait NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Air Force of Oman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Royal Air Force of Oman base network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Arabian Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runwayLength | 4000 m (Runway 17/35) ⓘ |
| runwayOrientation | 17/35 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| strategicRole |
key hub for regional air operations
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support base for coalition operations in the Gulf region ⓘ |
| supports |
air defense of Oman
ⓘ
training of RAFO pilots ⓘ |
| timezone | UTC+04:00 ⓘ |
| usedBy | Royal Air Force of Oman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedDuring |
Gulf War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Operation Desert Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ Operation Enduring Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
international military exercises
ⓘ
military aviation ⓘ regional air operations ⓘ |
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: Thumrait Air Base Description of subject: Thumrait Air Base is a Royal Air Force of Oman military airfield in southern Oman that serves as a key hub for regional air operations and international exercises.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.