RAF Scampton
E26508
RAF Scampton was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, historically significant as a bomber base during World War II and later as the long-time home of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RAF Scampton canonical | 16 |
| RAF Scampton (former) | 1 |
| RAF Scampton Heritage Centre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T112246 — 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 Scampton Context triple: [RAF Aerobatic Team Red Arrows, previousBase, RAF Scampton]
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RAF Waddington
RAF Waddington is a major Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, known primarily as a hub for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance operations and as the home base of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team.
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RAF Brize Norton
RAF Brize Norton is the Royal Air Force’s largest station in the UK, serving as its main air transport and air-to-air refuelling hub.
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RAF Ensign
The RAF Ensign is the official flag of the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force, featuring a sky-blue field with the Union Flag in the canton and the RAF roundel.
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RAF High Wycombe
RAF High Wycombe is a major Royal Air Force station in Buckinghamshire that serves as the command and administrative hub for several key RAF operational and support headquarters.
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E.
RNAS Killingholme
RNAS Killingholme was a World War I seaplane and airship station on the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, England, used primarily for maritime patrols and anti-submarine operations.
- 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 Scampton Target entity description: RAF Scampton was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, historically significant as a bomber base during World War II and later as the long-time home of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team.
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A.
RAF Waddington
RAF Waddington is a major Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, known primarily as a hub for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance operations and as the home base of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team.
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B.
RAF Brize Norton
RAF Brize Norton is the Royal Air Force’s largest station in the UK, serving as its main air transport and air-to-air refuelling hub.
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C.
RAF Ensign
The RAF Ensign is the official flag of the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force, featuring a sky-blue field with the Union Flag in the canton and the RAF roundel.
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RAF High Wycombe
RAF High Wycombe is a major Royal Air Force station in Buckinghamshire that serves as the command and administrative hub for several key RAF operational and support headquarters.
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E.
RNAS Killingholme
RNAS Killingholme was a World War I seaplane and airship station on the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, England, used primarily for maritime patrols and anti-submarine operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Air Force station
ⓘ
military airbase ⓘ |
| associatedOperation | Operation Chastise ⓘ |
| basedAircraftType |
Avro Lancaster
ⓘ
Vulcan bomber ⓘ
surface form:
Avro Vulcan
BAE Systems Hawk T1 ⓘ
surface form:
BAE Hawk T1
|
| closureAnnouncedBy |
United Kingdom Ministry of Defence
ⓘ
surface form:
UK Ministry of Defence
|
| closureStatus | closed as an RAF station ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| elevation |
202 feet
ⓘ
62 metres ⓘ |
| garrison | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| geographicFeature | airfield ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Royal Air Force stations in Lincolnshire
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World War II airfields in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
control tower
ⓘ
hangars ⓘ hardened aircraft shelters ⓘ runway ⓘ |
| hasHeritageAssociation |
RAF Scampton
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
RAF Scampton Heritage Centre
|
| heritageStatus | site with listed buildings ⓘ |
| historicalUse | bomber base ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | EGXP ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Lincolnshire ⓘ West Lindsey ⓘ
surface form:
West Lindsey district
|
| locatedNear | Lincoln ⓘ |
| nearbyVillage | Scampton ⓘ |
| notableEvent | departure of Red Arrows to RAF Waddington ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Dambusters memorials
ⓘ
Dambusters raid association ⓘ home of the Red Arrows ⓘ |
| notableUnitStationed |
No. 617 Squadron RAF
ⓘ
RAF Aerobatic Team Red Arrows ⓘ
surface form:
Red Arrows
|
| operatedBy | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
United Kingdom Ministry of Defence
ⓘ
surface form:
Ministry of Defence
|
| primaryRole |
aerobatic display operations
ⓘ
bomber operations ⓘ |
| region | East Midlands ⓘ |
| roleDuringColdWar | V-bomber base ⓘ |
| roleDuringWWII | base for bomber squadrons ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| runwayType | concrete ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Royal Air Force Bomber Command
ⓘ
surface form:
RAF Bomber Command
RAF Strike Command ⓘ |
| usedDuringConflict |
Cold War
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World War II ⓘ
surface form:
Second World War
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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 Scampton Description of subject: RAF Scampton was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, historically significant as a bomber base during World War II and later as the long-time home of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
RAF Scampton Heritage Centre
this entity surface form:
RAF Scampton (former)