IATA Airline Coding Directory
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The IATA Airline Coding Directory is an official reference publication by the International Air Transport Association that lists and standardizes airline designator codes, accounting codes, and related identifiers used throughout the global aviation industry.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IATA | 3 |
| IATA Airline Coding Directory canonical | 1 |
| IATA Airline Coding System | 1 |
| IATA Airport Coding Directory | 1 |
| IATA Resolution on airline designators | 1 |
| IATA airline coding system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2349080 — 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: IATA Airline Coding Directory Context triple: [UA, relatedStandard, IATA Airline Coding Directory]
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A.
ICAO airline designator system
The ICAO airline designator system is an international coding scheme that assigns unique three-letter identifiers to airlines for use in flight planning, air traffic control, and aviation operations.
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B.
GU (IATA airline designator)
GU is an IATA airline designator code assigned to a specific airline for identification in international air transport operations.
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C.
AGS Airports
AGS Airports is a UK-based airport management company that owns and operates several regional airports in Scotland and England.
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D.
ISO 3166
ISO 3166 is an international standard published by the International Organization for Standardization that defines globally recognized codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and their principal subdivisions.
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E.
IATAS
IATAS is the acronym for the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the organization best known for presenting the International Emmy Awards.
- 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: IATA Airline Coding Directory Target entity description: The IATA Airline Coding Directory is an official reference publication by the International Air Transport Association that lists and standardizes airline designator codes, accounting codes, and related identifiers used throughout the global aviation industry.
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A.
ICAO airline designator system
The ICAO airline designator system is an international coding scheme that assigns unique three-letter identifiers to airlines for use in flight planning, air traffic control, and aviation operations.
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B.
GU (IATA airline designator)
GU is an IATA airline designator code assigned to a specific airline for identification in international air transport operations.
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C.
AGS Airports
AGS Airports is a UK-based airport management company that owns and operates several regional airports in Scotland and England.
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D.
ISO 3166
ISO 3166 is an international standard published by the International Organization for Standardization that defines globally recognized codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and their principal subdivisions.
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E.
IATAS
IATAS is the acronym for the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the organization best known for presenting the International Emmy Awards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aviation industry standard
ⓘ
reference publication ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ACD ⓘ |
| category | IATA standards publication ⓘ |
| contains |
information on code changes and reassignments
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list of active airlines with IATA codes ⓘ list of historical or withdrawn airline codes ⓘ |
| describes |
IATA three-character airline codes
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IATA two-character airline codes ⓘ airline accounting codes ⓘ airline contact details ⓘ airline designator codes ⓘ airline legal names ⓘ airline numeric codes ⓘ airline prefixes ⓘ airline trading names ⓘ |
| field |
air transport
ⓘ
airline operations ⓘ aviation ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
digital
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | International Air Transport Association ⓘ |
| publisher | International Air Transport Association ⓘ |
| purpose |
to provide an official reference for airline codes
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to standardize airline identifiers worldwide ⓘ |
| regulates |
allocation of IATA airline designator codes
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allocation of airline accounting codes ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
IATA Airline Coding Directory
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
IATA Airline Coding System
IATA Airline Coding Directory self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
IATA Airport Coding Directory
IATA Standard Schedules Information Manual ⓘ |
| scope | global aviation industry ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
airline accounting departments
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airlines ⓘ aviation regulators ⓘ global distribution systems ⓘ travel agents ⓘ |
| updatedBy | IATA coding administration ⓘ |
| use |
airline accounting
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airline scheduling ⓘ airline settlement processes ⓘ global distribution systems ⓘ interline billing ⓘ reservation systems ⓘ standardization of airline identifiers ⓘ ticketing ⓘ |
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: IATA Airline Coding Directory Description of subject: The IATA Airline Coding Directory is an official reference publication by the International Air Transport Association that lists and standardizes airline designator codes, accounting codes, and related identifiers used throughout the global aviation industry.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Southern Airways Express
this entity surface form:
IATA
this entity surface form:
IATA Resolution on airline designators
this entity surface form:
IATA airline coding system
IATA Airline Coding Directory
→
relatedTo
→
IATA Airline Coding Directory
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
IATA Airline Coding System
IATA Airline Coding Directory
→
relatedTo
→
IATA Airline Coding Directory
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
IATA Airport Coding Directory