Yeadon Aerodrome
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Yeadon Aerodrome was the early civil and military airfield that evolved into today’s Leeds Bradford Airport in West Yorkshire, England.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leeds and Bradford Municipal Aerodrome | 2 |
| Yeadon Aerodrome canonical | 2 |
| Yeadon Airport | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2907234 — 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: Yeadon Aerodrome Context triple: [Leeds Bradford Airport, originalName, Yeadon Aerodrome]
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A.
Dunsfold Aerodrome
Dunsfold Aerodrome is a historic airfield in Surrey, England, best known as the test site for pioneering British aircraft and later as the filming location for the BBC’s "Top Gear" test track.
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B.
Hatfield Aerodrome, Hertfordshire
Hatfield Aerodrome in Hertfordshire is a former airfield and aircraft production site in England that has been repurposed for various uses, including serving as a filming location for major productions.
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C.
Upavon Aerodrome
Upavon Aerodrome is a historic British airfield on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, notable as an early military aviation base and long-serving training and operations site for the Royal Flying Corps and later the Royal Air Force.
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D.
Eastchurch airfield
Eastchurch airfield is a historic early British aviation site on the Isle of Sheppey, known as one of the birthplaces of UK military and civil flying.
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E.
Netheravon Airfield
Netheravon Airfield is a historic British military airfield on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, long associated with early army aviation and pilot 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: Yeadon Aerodrome Target entity description: Yeadon Aerodrome was the early civil and military airfield that evolved into today’s Leeds Bradford Airport in West Yorkshire, England.
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A.
Dunsfold Aerodrome
Dunsfold Aerodrome is a historic airfield in Surrey, England, best known as the test site for pioneering British aircraft and later as the filming location for the BBC’s "Top Gear" test track.
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B.
Hatfield Aerodrome, Hertfordshire
Hatfield Aerodrome in Hertfordshire is a former airfield and aircraft production site in England that has been repurposed for various uses, including serving as a filming location for major productions.
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C.
Upavon Aerodrome
Upavon Aerodrome is a historic British airfield on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, notable as an early military aviation base and long-serving training and operations site for the Royal Flying Corps and later the Royal Air Force.
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D.
Eastchurch airfield
Eastchurch airfield is a historic early British aviation site on the Isle of Sheppey, known as one of the birthplaces of UK military and civil flying.
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E.
Netheravon Airfield
Netheravon Airfield is a historic British military airfield on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, long associated with early army aviation and pilot training.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aerodrome
ⓘ
airfield ⓘ former airport ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| evolvedInto | Leeds Bradford Airport ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Yeadon Aerodrome
ⓘ
surface form:
Leeds and Bradford Municipal Aerodrome
Yeadon Aerodrome ⓘ
surface form:
Yeadon Airport
|
| hasCategory |
Airports in Yorkshire
ⓘ
Defunct airports in England ⓘ Military airfields in Yorkshire ⓘ Transport in Bradford ⓘ Transport in Leeds ⓘ |
| hasIATAcode | LBA ⓘ |
| hasICAOcode | EGNM ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface |
grass (early period)
ⓘ
paved runways (later period) ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | Leeds Bradford Airport ⓘ |
| historicalNameOf | Leeds Bradford Airport ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ West Yorkshire ⓘ Yeadon ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Yeadon
ⓘ
surface form:
Yeadon, West Yorkshire
|
| near |
Bradford
ⓘ
Leeds ⓘ |
| opened | 1931 ⓘ |
| operator |
Royal Air Force
ⓘ
civil authorities ⓘ |
| partOf | Leeds Bradford Airport ⓘ |
| servedCity |
Bradford
ⓘ
Leeds ⓘ |
| timezone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Royal Air Force
ⓘ
civil airlines ⓘ |
| usedDuring |
World War II
ⓘ
surface form:
Second World War
|
| usedFor |
civil aviation
ⓘ
military 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: Yeadon Aerodrome Description of subject: Yeadon Aerodrome was the early civil and military airfield that evolved into today’s Leeds Bradford Airport in West Yorkshire, England.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Leeds Bradford Airport
subject surface form:
Leeds Bradford Airport
this entity surface form:
Leeds and Bradford Municipal Aerodrome
this entity surface form:
Yeadon Airport
this entity surface form:
Leeds and Bradford Municipal Aerodrome