Tenzing-Hillary Airport
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Tenzing-Hillary Airport is a small, high-altitude airport in Lukla, Nepal, known as the gateway to Mount Everest and for its extremely short, challenging runway.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tenzing-Hillary Airport canonical | 2 |
| Tenzing–Hillary Airport | 2 |
| Lukla Airport | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1848051 — 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: Tenzing-Hillary Airport Context triple: [Tenzing Norgay, commemoratedBy, Tenzing-Hillary Airport]
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A.
Tribhuvan International Airport
Tribhuvan International Airport is the main international gateway to Nepal, serving as the primary airport for the capital city of Kathmandu.
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B.
Namche Bazaar
Namche Bazaar is a famous Sherpa town in Nepal’s Khumbu region that serves as the main gateway and acclimatization stop for trekkers and climbers heading toward Mount Everest.
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C.
Dabolim Airport
Dabolim Airport is the main international airport serving the Indian state of Goa, handling both civilian and military air traffic.
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D.
Khumjung
Khumjung is a Sherpa village in Nepal’s Khumbu region, known as a gateway to Everest treks and for its traditional culture and high-altitude setting.
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E.
Tunoshna Airport
Tunoshna Airport is a regional airport serving the city of Yaroslavl in Russia, handling both domestic passenger flights and cargo operations.
- 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: Tenzing-Hillary Airport Target entity description: Tenzing-Hillary Airport is a small, high-altitude airport in Lukla, Nepal, known as the gateway to Mount Everest and for its extremely short, challenging runway.
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A.
Tribhuvan International Airport
Tribhuvan International Airport is the main international gateway to Nepal, serving as the primary airport for the capital city of Kathmandu.
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B.
Namche Bazaar
Namche Bazaar is a famous Sherpa town in Nepal’s Khumbu region that serves as the main gateway and acclimatization stop for trekkers and climbers heading toward Mount Everest.
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C.
Dabolim Airport
Dabolim Airport is the main international airport serving the Indian state of Goa, handling both civilian and military air traffic.
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D.
Khumjung
Khumjung is a Sherpa village in Nepal’s Khumbu region, known as a gateway to Everest treks and for its traditional culture and high-altitude setting.
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E.
Tunoshna Airport
Tunoshna Airport is a regional airport serving the city of Yaroslavl in Russia, handling both domestic passenger flights and cargo operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Tenzing-Hillary Airport
ⓘ
surface form:
Lukla Airport
|
| climateImpact | operations affected by cloud and wind conditions ⓘ |
| country | Nepal ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 2,800 metres above sea level
ⓘ
approximately 9,200 feet above sea level ⓘ high-altitude airport ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
helipad
ⓘ
small terminal building ⓘ |
| IATAcode | LUA ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | VNLK ⓘ |
| knownAs | gateway to Mount Everest ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Himalayas
ⓘ
Lukla ⓘ Province No. 1 ⓘ Solukhumbu District ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Edmund Hillary
ⓘ
Tenzing Norgay ⓘ |
| namedInHonorOf | first successful climbers of Mount Everest ⓘ |
| near |
Everest Base Camp trek
ⓘ
surface form:
Everest Base Camp trekking route
Mount Everest ⓘ |
| notableFor |
challenging approach and departure
ⓘ
difficult landing conditions ⓘ frequent weather-related disruptions ⓘ short takeoff and landing operations ⓘ |
| openedForService | 1960s ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal ⓘ |
| primaryTrafficType |
STOL aircraft
ⓘ
domestic flights ⓘ |
| region | Khumbu ⓘ |
| runwayCharacteristic |
one-way takeoff and landing operations
ⓘ
steep gradient ⓘ very short runway ⓘ |
| runwayEndFeature |
cliff drop at one end
ⓘ
mountain wall at the other end ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
approximately 1,729 feet
ⓘ
approximately 527 metres ⓘ |
| runwayOrientation | 06/24 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| runwayType | single runway ⓘ |
| safetyReputation | one of the most dangerous airports in the world ⓘ |
| serves |
Lukla
ⓘ
Everest region ⓘ
surface form:
Mount Everest region
|
| timeZone | Nepal Time ⓘ |
| usedFor |
access to Everest Base Camp
ⓘ
mountaineering expeditions ⓘ trekking tourism ⓘ |
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: Tenzing-Hillary Airport Description of subject: Tenzing-Hillary Airport is a small, high-altitude airport in Lukla, Nepal, known as the gateway to Mount Everest and for its extremely short, challenging runway.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Solukhumbu District
this entity surface form:
Tenzing–Hillary Airport
this entity surface form:
Tenzing–Hillary Airport
this entity surface form:
Lukla Airport