Runway Zero-Eight
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Runway Zero-Eight is a 1958 aviation thriller novel by Arthur Hailey (with John Castle), best known for its tense depiction of an airliner disaster and its influence on later disaster fiction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Runway Zero-Eight canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19543839 — 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 Zero-Eight Context triple: [Arthur Hailey, notableWork, Runway Zero-Eight]
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A.
Runway 13
Runway 13 is one end of an airport runway aligned approximately on a 130-degree magnetic heading, typically used for aircraft takeoffs and landings in that direction.
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B.
Runway 4
Runway 4 is one end of a bidirectional airport runway, typically aligned toward a magnetic heading of approximately 040 degrees.
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C.
Runway 2
Runway 2 is one end of an airport runway designated with the heading “02,” typically aligned roughly toward 020 degrees on the compass.
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D.
Runway 5
Runway 5 is an airport runway designation indicating an approximate magnetic heading of 50 degrees, typically used when runway numbers are updated to reflect shifts in Earth’s magnetic variation.
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E.
Runway 24
Runway 24 is one of the primary landing and takeoff runways at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya.
- 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 Zero-Eight Target entity description: Runway Zero-Eight is a 1958 aviation thriller novel by Arthur Hailey (with John Castle), best known for its tense depiction of an airliner disaster and its influence on later disaster fiction.
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A.
Runway 13
Runway 13 is one end of an airport runway aligned approximately on a 130-degree magnetic heading, typically used for aircraft takeoffs and landings in that direction.
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B.
Runway 4
Runway 4 is one end of a bidirectional airport runway, typically aligned toward a magnetic heading of approximately 040 degrees.
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C.
Runway 2
Runway 2 is one end of an airport runway designated with the heading “02,” typically aligned roughly toward 020 degrees on the compass.
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D.
Runway 5
Runway 5 is an airport runway designation indicating an approximate magnetic heading of 50 degrees, typically used when runway numbers are updated to reflect shifts in Earth’s magnetic variation.
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E.
Runway 24
Runway 24 is one of the primary landing and takeoff runways at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.