RAF Lossiemouth
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RAF Lossiemouth is a major Royal Air Force station in Moray, Scotland, serving as a key base for fast-jet operations and maritime patrol aircraft.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RAF Lossiemouth canonical | 16 |
| RAF Lossiemouth Station | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2074001 — 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: RAF Lossiemouth Context triple: [No. 617 Squadron RAF, basedAt, RAF Lossiemouth]
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A.
RAF Marham
RAF Marham is a major Royal Air Force station in eastern England, historically home to frontline bomber and strike aircraft and a key base for the UK's air operations.
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B.
RAF Leuchars
RAF Leuchars is a Royal Air Force station in Fife, Scotland, historically significant as a major fighter base responsible for air defence of the United Kingdom.
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C.
RNAS Culdrose
RNAS Culdrose is a major Royal Navy air station in Cornwall that serves as a key base for the Fleet Air Arm’s helicopter and aviation training operations.
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D.
RAF Akrotiri
RAF Akrotiri is a major Royal Air Force station on Cyprus that serves as a key forward operating base for British air operations in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean.
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E.
RAF Honington
RAF Honington is a Royal Air Force station in Suffolk, England, best known as the home of the RAF Regiment and a key centre for ground-based air defence and force protection training.
- 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: RAF Lossiemouth Target entity description: RAF Lossiemouth is a major Royal Air Force station in Moray, Scotland, serving as a key base for fast-jet operations and maritime patrol aircraft.
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A.
RAF Marham
RAF Marham is a major Royal Air Force station in eastern England, historically home to frontline bomber and strike aircraft and a key base for the UK's air operations.
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B.
RAF Leuchars
RAF Leuchars is a Royal Air Force station in Fife, Scotland, historically significant as a major fighter base responsible for air defence of the United Kingdom.
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C.
RNAS Culdrose
RNAS Culdrose is a major Royal Navy air station in Cornwall that serves as a key base for the Fleet Air Arm’s helicopter and aviation training operations.
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D.
RAF Akrotiri
RAF Akrotiri is a major Royal Air Force station on Cyprus that serves as a key forward operating base for British air operations in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean.
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E.
RAF Honington
RAF Honington is a Royal Air Force station in Suffolk, England, best known as the home of the RAF Regiment and a key centre for ground-based air defence and force protection training.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Air Force station
ⓘ
military air base ⓘ |
| basedAircraftRole |
fast-jet operations
ⓘ
maritime patrol ⓘ |
| basedAircraftType |
Boeing P-8 Poseidon
ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing P-8A Poseidon
Eurofighter Typhoon ⓘ |
| controlledBy |
Royal Air Force Air Command
ⓘ
surface form:
Air Command (Royal Air Force)
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| coordinates | 57.705°N 3.339°W ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | 42 metres ⓘ |
| garrison |
RAF Lossiemouth
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
RAF Lossiemouth Station
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| hasFacility |
Poseidon strategic facility
ⓘ
air traffic control tower ⓘ hardened aircraft shelters ⓘ search and rescue support facilities ⓘ |
| homeToMilitaryUnit |
No. 1 Squadron RAF
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No. 120 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 2 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 201 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 2622 (Highland) Squadron RAuxAF ⓘ RAF Force Protection Centre ⓘ
surface form:
No. 5 Force Protection Wing RAF
51 Squadron RAF Regiment ⓘ
surface form:
No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment
No. 6 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 6 Squadron RAF Regiment ⓘ No. 8 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 9 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 25 Squadron RAF ⓘ
surface form:
No. XXV Squadron RAF
|
| IATACode | LMO ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | EGQS ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Moray
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Scotland ⓘ |
| location |
Lossiemouth
ⓘ
surface form:
Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland
|
| nearbyCity |
Elgin, Scotland
ⓘ
surface form:
Elgin, Moray
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| opened | 1939 ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf | RAF Support Force ⓘ |
| previousName |
HMS Heron
ⓘ
surface form:
HMS Fulmar
|
| previousOperator |
Fleet Air Arm
ⓘ
surface form:
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm
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| primaryRunwayOrientation | northeast–southwest ⓘ |
| revertedToRAFControl | 1972 ⓘ |
| role |
Quick Reaction Alert (Interceptor) North
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air defence of the United Kingdom ⓘ maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare ⓘ |
| runway |
Runway 05/23
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Runway 10/28 ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
Runway 05/23 length approximately 2,764 metres
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Runway 10/28 length approximately 1,842 metres ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| secondaryRunwayOrientation | east–west ⓘ |
| usedFor | World War II operations ⓘ |
| website |
RNAS Lossiemouth
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surface form:
https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/stations/raf-lossiemouth/
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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: RAF Lossiemouth Description of subject: RAF Lossiemouth is a major Royal Air Force station in Moray, Scotland, serving as a key base for fast-jet operations and maritime patrol aircraft.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
RAF Lossiemouth Station