Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport
E251988
Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport is a public airport in Indiana named in honor of astronaut and native son Virgil "Gus" Grissom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2066113 — 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: Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport Context triple: [Bedford, Indiana, servedByAirport, Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport]
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A.
Ellis Municipal Airport
Ellis Municipal Airport is a small public-use airfield serving general aviation needs for the community of Ellis in western Kansas.
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B.
John Glenn Columbus International Airport
John Glenn Columbus International Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area, offering domestic and limited international flights.
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C.
Washington Municipal Airport
Washington Municipal Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Washington and surrounding communities in Washington County, Iowa.
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D.
Cyril E. King Airport
Cyril E. King Airport is the main commercial airport serving St. Thomas and the surrounding U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.
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E.
Philip Billard Municipal Airport
Philip Billard Municipal Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Topeka in northeastern Kansas.
- 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: Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport Target entity description: Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport is a public airport in Indiana named in honor of astronaut and native son Virgil "Gus" Grissom.
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A.
Ellis Municipal Airport
Ellis Municipal Airport is a small public-use airfield serving general aviation needs for the community of Ellis in western Kansas.
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B.
John Glenn Columbus International Airport
John Glenn Columbus International Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area, offering domestic and limited international flights.
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C.
Washington Municipal Airport
Washington Municipal Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Washington and surrounding communities in Washington County, Iowa.
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D.
Cyril E. King Airport
Cyril E. King Airport is the main commercial airport serving St. Thomas and the surrounding U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.
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E.
Philip Billard Municipal Airport
Philip Billard Municipal Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Topeka in northeastern Kansas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | about 476 feet ⓘ |
| hasBasedAircraftType |
multi-engine airplanes
ⓘ
single-engine airplanes ⓘ |
| hasFAAcode | BFR ⓘ |
| hasIATAcode | BFR ⓘ |
| hasICAOcode | KBFR ⓘ |
| hasPushpinMapRegion |
Indiana
ⓘ
USA ⓘ |
| hasRunway | Runway 12/30 ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| isPublicUse | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Indiana ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Gus Grissom
ⓘ
Virgil I. Grissom ⓘ
linked to:
Gus Grissom
|
| namedAfterBirthState | Indiana ⓘ |
| namedAfterCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| namedAfterOccupation | astronaut ⓘ |
| runwayLength_12_30 | approximately 4,400 feet ⓘ |
| runwayOrientation_12_30 | 120/300 degrees ⓘ |
| runwayWidth_12_30 | approximately 75 feet ⓘ |
| servesCity | Bedford, Indiana ⓘ |
| usedFor | general aviation ⓘ |
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: Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport Description of subject: Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport is a public airport in Indiana named in honor of astronaut and native son Virgil "Gus" Grissom.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.