MEA
E174887
MEA is the ICAO airline designator for Middle East Airlines, the flag carrier of Lebanon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MEA canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1534019 — 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: MEA Context triple: [Middle East Airlines, ICAOcode, MEA]
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A.
ME
ME is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Maine.
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B.
ME
ME is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Montenegro.
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C.
EMA
EMA is the European Union’s regulatory authority responsible for the scientific evaluation, supervision, and safety monitoring of medicines.
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D.
MIA
MIA is the UN/LOCODE designation for Miami, a major coastal city and transportation hub in the U.S. state of Florida.
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E.
MIA
MIA is a major fine arts museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota, known for its extensive global art collections spanning thousands of years.
- 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: MEA Target entity description: MEA is the ICAO airline designator for Middle East Airlines, the flag carrier of Lebanon.
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A.
ME
ME is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Maine.
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B.
ME
ME is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Montenegro.
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C.
EMA
EMA is the European Union’s regulatory authority responsible for the scientific evaluation, supervision, and safety monitoring of medicines.
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D.
MIA
MIA is the standard three-letter abbreviation used to represent the Miami Marlins Major League Baseball team.
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E.
MIA
MIA is the UN/LOCODE designation for Miami, a major coastal city and transportation hub in the U.S. state of Florida.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ICAO airline code
ⓘ
airline designator ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor | Middle East Airlines ⓘ |
| airline | Middle East Airlines ⓘ |
| airlineType | flag carrier ⓘ |
| assignedBy | International Civil Aviation Organization ⓘ |
| codeType | ICAO designator ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Lebanon ⓘ |
| flagCarrierOf | Lebanon ⓘ |
| industry | aviation ⓘ |
| languageOfOperatingAirline |
Arabic
ⓘ
English ⓘ French ⓘ |
| operatingAirlineCallsign | CEDAR JET ⓘ |
| operatingAirlineCountryCode | LB ⓘ |
| operatingAirlineHeadquarters | Beirut ⓘ |
| operatingAirlineHub | Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ⓘ |
| operatingAirlineIATACode | ME ⓘ |
| operatingAirlineICAOCode | MEA ⓘ |
| regionServed | Middle East ⓘ |
| represents | Middle East Airlines ⓘ |
| transportType | air transport ⓘ |
| usedFor |
air traffic control
ⓘ
airline identification ⓘ flight 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: MEA Description of subject: MEA is the ICAO airline designator for Middle East Airlines, the flag carrier of Lebanon.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.