Sea Island Airport
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Sea Island Airport was the former name of what is now Vancouver International Airport, a major Canadian airport serving the Vancouver metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sea Island Airport canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2413728 — 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: Sea Island Airport Context triple: [Vancouver International Airport, previousName, Sea Island Airport]
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A.
Brunswick Golden Isles Airport
Brunswick Golden Isles Airport is a public regional airport serving the Brunswick and Golden Isles area of coastal Georgia, providing commercial and general aviation services.
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B.
Treasure Cay Airport
Treasure Cay Airport is a small regional airport serving the Treasure Cay area in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, primarily handling domestic and limited international flights for tourists and local residents.
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C.
Brunswick Research Airport
Brunswick Research Airport is a German aviation research facility and airfield in Braunschweig used for scientific, technological, and test-flight activities.
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D.
Jack Edwards National Airport
Jack Edwards National Airport is a public airport serving the Gulf Coast resort area near Gulf Shores in Baldwin County, Alabama.
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E.
Nantucket Memorial Airport
Nantucket Memorial Airport is the primary commercial airport serving Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, providing regional air connections to the mainland and other destinations.
- 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: Sea Island Airport Target entity description: Sea Island Airport was the former name of what is now Vancouver International Airport, a major Canadian airport serving the Vancouver metropolitan area.
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A.
Brunswick Golden Isles Airport
Brunswick Golden Isles Airport is a public regional airport serving the Brunswick and Golden Isles area of coastal Georgia, providing commercial and general aviation services.
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B.
Treasure Cay Airport
Treasure Cay Airport is a small regional airport serving the Treasure Cay area in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, primarily handling domestic and limited international flights for tourists and local residents.
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C.
Brunswick Research Airport
Brunswick Research Airport is a German aviation research facility and airfield in Braunschweig used for scientific, technological, and test-flight activities.
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D.
Jack Edwards National Airport
Jack Edwards National Airport is a public airport serving the Gulf Coast resort area near Gulf Shores in Baldwin County, Alabama.
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E.
Nantucket Memorial Airport
Nantucket Memorial Airport is the primary commercial airport serving Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, providing regional air connections to the mainland and other destinations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | airport ⓘ |
| cityServed | Vancouver ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | 4.3 m ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Vancouver International Airport ⓘ |
| hasFocusCityAirline |
Flair Airlines
ⓘ
Lynx Air ⓘ |
| hasHubAirline |
Air Canada
ⓘ
WestJet ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
08L/26R
ⓘ
08R/26L ⓘ 13/31 ⓘ |
| hasRunwayOrientation |
080/260
ⓘ
130/310 ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| hasTerminal |
Main Terminal
ⓘ
South Terminal ⓘ |
| IATACode |
Vancouver International Airport
ⓘ
surface form:
YVR
|
| ICAOCode | CYVR ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Richmond, British Columbia
ⓘ
Sea Island ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea |
Metro Vancouver, Canada
ⓘ
surface form:
Vancouver metropolitan area
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Sea Island in the Fraser River estuary ⓘ |
| operator | Vancouver Airport Authority ⓘ |
| province | British Columbia ⓘ |
| serves |
Vancouver
ⓘ
surface form:
Vancouver, British Columbia
|
| servesAs | primary international airport for Vancouver metropolitan area ⓘ |
| WMOCode | 71892 ⓘ |
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: Sea Island Airport Description of subject: Sea Island Airport was the former name of what is now Vancouver International Airport, a major Canadian airport serving the Vancouver metropolitan area.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.