Tullamarine Airport
E160813
Tullamarine Airport is the primary international and domestic airport serving Melbourne, Australia, and one of the country’s busiest aviation hubs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tullamarine Airport canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1371005 — 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: Tullamarine Airport Context triple: [Melbourne Airport, alternativeName, Tullamarine Airport]
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A.
Essendon Airport
Essendon Airport is a secondary airport in Melbourne, Australia, that served as the city’s main international airport before being superseded by Melbourne Airport.
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B.
Deniliquin Airport
Deniliquin Airport is a regional public airport serving the town of Deniliquin in New South Wales, Australia, primarily handling general aviation and charter flights.
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C.
Canberra Airport
Canberra Airport is the main domestic and international airport serving Australia’s capital city, Canberra.
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D.
Griffith Airport
Griffith Airport is a regional airport serving the city of Griffith and the surrounding Riverina area in New South Wales, Australia.
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E.
Wagga Wagga Airport
Wagga Wagga Airport is a regional airport in New South Wales, Australia, serving the city of Wagga Wagga with commercial, general aviation, and military-related flights.
- 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: Tullamarine Airport Target entity description: Tullamarine Airport is the primary international and domestic airport serving Melbourne, Australia, and one of the country’s busiest aviation hubs.
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A.
Essendon Airport
Essendon Airport is a secondary airport in Melbourne, Australia, that served as the city’s main international airport before being superseded by Melbourne Airport.
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B.
Deniliquin Airport
Deniliquin Airport is a regional public airport serving the town of Deniliquin in New South Wales, Australia, primarily handling general aviation and charter flights.
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C.
Canberra Airport
Canberra Airport is the main domestic and international airport serving Australia’s capital city, Canberra.
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D.
Griffith Airport
Griffith Airport is a regional airport serving the city of Griffith and the surrounding Riverina area in New South Wales, Australia.
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E.
Wagga Wagga Airport
Wagga Wagga Airport is a regional airport in New South Wales, Australia, serving the city of Wagga Wagga with commercial, general aviation, and military-related flights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
domestic airport
ⓘ
international airport ⓘ transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Melbourne Airport (Tullamarine)
ⓘ
surface form:
Melbourne Airport
|
| connectsTo | Tullamarine Freeway ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| distanceFromCityCentre | approximately 23 km northwest of Melbourne CBD ⓘ |
| handles |
domestic flights
ⓘ
international flights ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
airport hotels nearby
ⓘ
cargo facilities ⓘ domestic terminals (Terminals 1, 3, 4) ⓘ international terminal (Terminal 2) ⓘ long-term car parks ⓘ short-term car parks ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid | instrument landing systems on main runways ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
Runway 09/27
ⓘ
Runway 09L/27R (taxiway/parallel configuration potential) ⓘ Runway 16/34 ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| hasTerminal |
Terminal 1
ⓘ
Terminal 2 ⓘ Terminal 3 ⓘ Terminal 4 ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.melbourneairport.com.au/ ⓘ |
| IATAcode | MEL ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | YMML ⓘ |
| isFocusCityFor |
Jetstar Airways
ⓘ
Rex Airlines ⓘ |
| isMajorHubFor |
Qantas domestic operations in Melbourne
ⓘ
Virgin Australia ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Tullamarine, Victoria ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | State of Victoria ⓘ |
| nearbySuburb |
Airport West
ⓘ
Gladstone Park ⓘ Keilor Park ⓘ |
| opened | 1970 ⓘ |
| operator | Australia Pacific Airports Corporation ⓘ |
| primaryUse | commercial passenger flights ⓘ |
| publicTransport | SkyBus express bus to Melbourne CBD ⓘ |
| rankedAmong | busiest airports in Australia by passenger numbers ⓘ |
| regulator |
Civil Aviation Safety Authority
ⓘ
surface form:
Civil Aviation Safety Authority (Australia)
|
| replaced | Essendon Airport as Melbourne’s main airport ⓘ |
| runwayCount | 4 ⓘ |
| servesCity | Melbourne ⓘ |
| servesRegion | state of Victoria and southern Australia ⓘ |
| terminalCount | 4 ⓘ |
| timeZone | AEST ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | AEDT ⓘ |
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: Tullamarine Airport Description of subject: Tullamarine Airport is the primary international and domestic airport serving Melbourne, Australia, and one of the country’s busiest aviation hubs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Melbourne Airport