Minsk-1 Airport (closed)
E226531
Minsk-1 Airport (closed) was the former primary airport serving the city of Minsk, Belarus, before being replaced by Minsk National Airport and ultimately shut down.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minsk-1 Airport (closed) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2002610 — 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: Minsk-1 Airport (closed) Context triple: [Minsk, hasAirport, Minsk-1 Airport (closed)]
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A.
Minsk National Airport
Minsk National Airport is the main international airport serving Belarus’s capital, Minsk, and the country’s primary hub for passenger and cargo air traffic.
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B.
Vitebsk Vostochny Airport
Vitebsk Vostochny Airport is a regional airport serving the city of Vitebsk in northeastern Belarus, handling domestic and limited international flights.
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C.
Yunost Minsk
Yunost Minsk is a prominent Belarusian ice hockey club renowned for its multiple international and domestic titles and strong performances in European competitions.
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D.
Brest Airport
Brest Airport is a regional international airport serving the city of Brest in southwestern Belarus, handling passenger and limited cargo flights.
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E.
Yelizovo Airport
Yelizovo Airport is the main civil and military airport serving the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.
- 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: Minsk-1 Airport (closed) Target entity description: Minsk-1 Airport (closed) was the former primary airport serving the city of Minsk, Belarus, before being replaced by Minsk National Airport and ultimately shut down.
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A.
Minsk National Airport
Minsk National Airport is the main international airport serving Belarus’s capital, Minsk, and the country’s primary hub for passenger and cargo air traffic.
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B.
Vitebsk Vostochny Airport
Vitebsk Vostochny Airport is a regional airport serving the city of Vitebsk in northeastern Belarus, handling domestic and limited international flights.
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C.
Yunost Minsk
Yunost Minsk is a prominent Belarusian ice hockey club renowned for its multiple international and domestic titles and strong performances in European competitions.
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D.
Brest Airport
Brest Airport is a regional international airport serving the city of Brest in southwestern Belarus, handling passenger and limited cargo flights.
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E.
Yelizovo Airport
Yelizovo Airport is the main civil and military airport serving the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
defunct airport ⓘ |
| country | Belarus ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
222 metres
ⓘ
728 feet ⓘ |
| formerName |
Minsk National Airport
ⓘ
surface form:
Minsk Airport
|
| formerRole | primary airport of Minsk ⓘ |
| IATAcode | MHP ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | UMMM ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ Minsk ⓘ Minsk Region ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ |
| locatedInDistrict | Leninsky District, Minsk ⓘ |
| operator | Minsk Civil Aviation Authority ⓘ |
| pushpinLabel | MHP ⓘ |
| pushpinMap | Belarus ⓘ |
| pushpinMapCaption | Location of airport in Belarus ⓘ |
| replacedAsPrimaryAirportBy | Minsk National Airport ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Minsk National Airport ⓘ |
| runwayCount | 1 ⓘ |
| runwayDesignation | 12/30 ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
2000 metres
ⓘ
6562 feet ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servedCity | Minsk ⓘ |
| status | closed ⓘ |
| timezone | UTC+03:00 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
domestic flights
ⓘ
regional flights ⓘ |
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: Minsk-1 Airport (closed) Description of subject: Minsk-1 Airport (closed) was the former primary airport serving the city of Minsk, Belarus, before being replaced by Minsk National Airport and ultimately shut down.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.