Runway 17 at White Sands Space Harbor
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Runway 17 at White Sands Space Harbor is a long, gypsum-surfaced runway at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, notable for serving as an alternate landing site for NASA’s Space Shuttle program.
All labels observed (1)
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| Runway 17 at White Sands Space Harbor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17541719 — 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: Runway 17 at White Sands Space Harbor Context triple: [landing of Space Shuttle Columbia STS-3, landingRunway, Runway 17 at White Sands Space Harbor]
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Runway 15, Shuttle Landing Facility
Runway 15 at the Shuttle Landing Facility is one of NASA’s primary concrete runways at Kennedy Space Center, used for Space Shuttle landings and other aerospace operations.
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B.
Runway 14/32
Runway 14/32 is the principal paved runway at Leeds Bradford Airport, used for most commercial takeoffs and landings.
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C.
Runway 14/32
Runway 14/32 is a primary paved runway at Monroe Regional Airport in Louisiana, used for commercial and general aviation operations.
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D.
Runway 14/32
Runway 14/32 is one of the primary paved runways at Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau, Bahamas, used for handling commercial and general aviation traffic.
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E.
Runway 14/32
Runway 14/32 is a primary paved landing and takeoff strip at Ocean City Municipal Airport in Maryland, serving general aviation traffic.
- 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: Runway 17 at White Sands Space Harbor Target entity description: Runway 17 at White Sands Space Harbor is a long, gypsum-surfaced runway at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, notable for serving as an alternate landing site for NASA’s Space Shuttle program.
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A.
Runway 15, Shuttle Landing Facility
Runway 15 at the Shuttle Landing Facility is one of NASA’s primary concrete runways at Kennedy Space Center, used for Space Shuttle landings and other aerospace operations.
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B.
Runway 14/32
Runway 14/32 is a primary paved landing and takeoff strip at Ocean City Municipal Airport in Maryland, serving general aviation traffic.
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C.
Runway 14/32
Runway 14/32 is a principal paved runway at Trivandrum International Airport in Thiruvananthapuram, India, used for handling both domestic and international air traffic.
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D.
Runway 14/32
Runway 14/32 is a primary paved runway at Bern Airport in Switzerland, used for both commercial and general aviation operations.
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E.
Runway 14/32
Runway 14/32 is a primary paved runway at Buffalo Niagara International Airport used for commercial and general aviation takeoffs and landings under varying wind and weather conditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.