Goose Bay Airport
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Goose Bay Airport is a Canadian airport in Labrador that serves the town of Happy Valley–Goose Bay and functions as both a civilian and military airfield.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Happy Valley-Goose Bay Airport | 3 |
| Goose Bay Airport canonical | 2 |
| Happy Valley–Goose Bay Airport | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1883140 — 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: Goose Bay Airport Context triple: [Happy Valley-Goose Bay, hasAirport, Goose Bay Airport]
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A.
Pelee Island Airport
Pelee Island Airport is a small public airport serving Pelee Island in Lake Erie, providing essential air transportation for residents and visitors.
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B.
Parry Sound Area Municipal Airport
Parry Sound Area Municipal Airport is a regional public airport in Ontario, Canada, serving the Parry Sound area with general aviation facilities and access to nearby communities and cottage country.
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C.
Churchill Falls Airport
Churchill Falls Airport is a small regional airport serving the remote company town of Churchill Falls in Labrador, Canada, primarily supporting local residents and hydroelectric operations.
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D.
North Bay/Jack Garland Airport
North Bay/Jack Garland Airport is a regional airport in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, providing commercial, general aviation, and military support services for the surrounding area.
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E.
Manitoulin East Municipal Airport
Manitoulin East Municipal Airport is a small regional airport serving Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada, providing general aviation and limited commercial services to the surrounding communities.
- 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: Goose Bay Airport Target entity description: Goose Bay Airport is a Canadian airport in Labrador that serves the town of Happy Valley–Goose Bay and functions as both a civilian and military airfield.
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A.
Pelee Island Airport
Pelee Island Airport is a small public airport serving Pelee Island in Lake Erie, providing essential air transportation for residents and visitors.
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B.
Parry Sound Area Municipal Airport
Parry Sound Area Municipal Airport is a regional public airport in Ontario, Canada, serving the Parry Sound area with general aviation facilities and access to nearby communities and cottage country.
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C.
Churchill Falls Airport
Churchill Falls Airport is a small regional airport serving the remote company town of Churchill Falls in Labrador, Canada, primarily supporting local residents and hydroelectric operations.
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D.
North Bay/Jack Garland Airport
North Bay/Jack Garland Airport is a regional airport in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, providing commercial, general aviation, and military support services for the surrounding area.
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E.
Manitoulin East Municipal Airport
Manitoulin East Municipal Airport is a small regional airport serving Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada, providing general aviation and limited commercial services to the surrounding communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
civil–military airport ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
CFB Goose Bay
ⓘ
surface form:
CYYR Goose Bay
Goose Bay Airport ⓘ
surface form:
Happy Valley–Goose Bay Airport
|
| cityServed |
Happy Valley-Goose Bay
ⓘ
surface form:
Happy Valley–Goose Bay
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| elevation | 160 ft ⓘ |
| hasApron |
civilian apron
ⓘ
military apron ⓘ |
| hasCivilUse | yes ⓘ |
| hasCode |
CYYR
ⓘ
YYR ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryBase | CFB Goose Bay ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryUse | yes ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid |
NDB
ⓘ
VOR/DME ⓘ instrument landing system ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
Runway 08/26
ⓘ
Runway 16/34 ⓘ |
| hasTerminal | passenger terminal ⓘ |
| IATAcode | YYR ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | CYYR ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Happy Valley-Goose Bay
ⓘ
surface form:
Happy Valley–Goose Bay
Labrador ⓘ Newfoundland and Labrador ⓘ
surface form:
Labrador region of Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador ⓘ |
| operator | Transport Canada ⓘ |
| province | Newfoundland and Labrador ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
Runway 08/26: 11,046 ft
ⓘ
Runway 16/34: 8,000 ft ⓘ |
| runwaySurface |
Runway 08/26: asphalt
ⓘ
Runway 16/34: asphalt ⓘ |
| serves |
Happy Valley-Goose Bay
ⓘ
surface form:
Happy Valley–Goose Bay
|
| supportsTrafficType |
commercial aviation
ⓘ
general aviation ⓘ military aviation ⓘ |
| timeZone | Atlantic Time Zone ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Royal Canadian Air Force
ⓘ
civilian airlines ⓘ |
| usesDST | yes ⓘ |
| WMOcode | 71816 ⓘ |
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: Goose Bay Airport Description of subject: Goose Bay Airport is a Canadian airport in Labrador that serves the town of Happy Valley–Goose Bay and functions as both a civilian and military airfield.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Happy Valley-Goose Bay Airport
this entity surface form:
Happy Valley-Goose Bay Airport
this entity surface form:
Happy Valley-Goose Bay Airport
this entity surface form:
Happy Valley–Goose Bay Airport