Airport (novel)
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Airport (novel) is a 1968 bestselling aviation-themed thriller by Arthur Hailey that interweaves the personal and professional crises of airline and airport staff during a major winter storm.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Airport (novel) canonical | 2 |
| Airport novel series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13500730 — 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: Airport (novel) Context triple: [Airport (1970 film), basedOn, Airport (novel)]
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A.
The Flight Path
The Flight Path is a poem by Seamus Heaney included in his acclaimed collection "The Spirit Level."
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B.
Airport 1975
Airport 1975 is a 1974 American disaster film and sequel in the Airport series, best known for its midair collision plot and ensemble cast.
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C.
Flughafen
Flughafen is the Nuremberg U-Bahn station that serves Nuremberg Airport, providing direct metro access between the airport and the city.
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D.
The Ghost of Flight 401
The Ghost of Flight 401 is a 1978 made-for-television supernatural drama film based on the alleged hauntings following the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401.
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E.
The Flight
The Flight is a musical duo known for composing the atmospheric and cinematic soundtrack for the video game Horizon Zero Dawn.
- 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: Airport (novel) Target entity description: Airport (novel) is a 1968 bestselling aviation-themed thriller by Arthur Hailey that interweaves the personal and professional crises of airline and airport staff during a major winter storm.
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A.
The Flight Path
The Flight Path is a poem by Seamus Heaney included in his acclaimed collection "The Spirit Level."
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B.
Airport 1975
Airport 1975 is a 1974 American disaster film and sequel in the Airport series, best known for its midair collision plot and ensemble cast.
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C.
Flughafen
Flughafen is the Nuremberg U-Bahn station that serves Nuremberg Airport, providing direct metro access between the airport and the city.
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D.
The Ghost of Flight 401
The Ghost of Flight 401 is a 1978 made-for-television supernatural drama film based on the alleged hauntings following the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401.
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E.
The Flight
The Flight is a musical duo known for composing the atmospheric and cinematic soundtrack for the video game Horizon Zero Dawn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aviation novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ thriller novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | Airport (1970 film) ⓘ |
| author | Arthur Hailey ⓘ |
| bestsellerStatus | bestseller in the United States ⓘ |
| centralEvent |
aircraft bomb threat
ⓘ
major winter snowstorm ⓘ |
| centralLocation |
air traffic control tower
ⓘ
airport terminal ⓘ runways ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| coverArtist | Doubleday design department ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Wheels (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Wheels (TV miniseries)
|
| genre |
aviation fiction
ⓘ
disaster fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Cindy Bakersfeld
ⓘ
Guerrero ⓘ Joe Patroni ⓘ Mel Bakersfeld ⓘ Sarah Bakersfeld ⓘ
linked to:
Cindy Bakersfeld
Tanya Livingston ⓘ Vernon Demerest ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | over 400 pages ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
air traffic control
ⓘ
aircraft maintenance ⓘ airline management ⓘ airport security ⓘ |
| inspirationFor | Airport film series ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
aviation industry operations
ⓘ
personal relationships under stress ⓘ professional crisis management ⓘ |
| market | adult fiction ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person omniscient ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed depiction of airport operations
ⓘ
influencing the disaster film genre ⓘ |
| originalLanguageTitle | Airport ⓘ |
| plotSummary | The story follows airport and airline staff coping with a major winter storm and a bomb threat on a transatlantic flight. ⓘ |
| precededBy | Hotel (novel) ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1968 ⓘ |
| publisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| setting |
Chicago
ⓘ
Lincoln International Airport ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfEvents | one winter night and the following day ⓘ |
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: Airport (novel) Description of subject: Airport (novel) is a 1968 bestselling aviation-themed thriller by Arthur Hailey that interweaves the personal and professional crises of airline and airport staff during a major winter storm.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Airport (novel)