Istanbul Airport
E31352
Istanbul Airport is a major international aviation hub in Turkey that serves as one of the world’s busiest airports and a primary base for Turkish Airlines.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T236000 — 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: Istanbul Airport Context triple: [Istanbul, hasAirport, Istanbul Airport]
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A.
Dubai International Airport
Dubai International Airport is a major global aviation hub in the United Arab Emirates, known for its extensive international connections and high passenger traffic.
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B.
Nikola Tesla International Airport
Nikola Tesla International Airport is the main international airport serving Belgrade, Serbia, named in honor of the renowned inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.
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C.
Orly Airport
Orly Airport is a major international airport serving Paris, France, located south of the city and handling a large share of its domestic and European flights.
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D.
Cairo International Airport
Cairo International Airport is Egypt’s busiest and largest airport, serving as the primary international gateway to Cairo and a major hub for air travel in the Middle East and Africa.
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E.
Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport
Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport is Lebanon’s main international gateway, serving as the primary airport for Beirut and the country’s largest and busiest aviation hub.
- 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: Istanbul Airport Target entity description: Istanbul Airport is a major international aviation hub in Turkey that serves as one of the world’s busiest airports and a primary base for Turkish Airlines.
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A.
Dubai International Airport
Dubai International Airport is a major global aviation hub in the United Arab Emirates, known for its extensive international connections and high passenger traffic.
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B.
Nikola Tesla International Airport
Nikola Tesla International Airport is the main international airport serving Belgrade, Serbia, named in honor of the renowned inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.
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C.
Orly Airport
Orly Airport is a major international airport serving Paris, France, located south of the city and handling a large share of its domestic and European flights.
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D.
Cairo International Airport
Cairo International Airport is Egypt’s busiest and largest airport, serving as the primary international gateway to Cairo and a major hub for air travel in the Middle East and Africa.
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E.
Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport
Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport is Lebanon’s main international gateway, serving as the primary airport for Beirut and the country’s largest and busiest aviation hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international airport
ⓘ
transport hub ⓘ |
| alsoServesContinent | Asia ⓘ |
| cityServed | Istanbul ⓘ |
| commercialOperationsStartDate | 2018-10-31 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 2015-05-01 ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country |
Turkey
ⓘ
surface form:
Republic of Turkey
Turkey ⓘ |
| designedCapacityPassengersPerYear | 200 million ⓘ |
| elevation | 99 m ⓘ |
| fullTransferOfFlightsDate | 2019-04-06 ⓘ |
| hasCargoFacilities | true ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.istairport.com/ ⓘ |
| hasPassengerTerminal |
domestic terminal (within main complex)
ⓘ
international terminal ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransportConnection |
Havaist airport buses
ⓘ
Istanbul Metro ⓘ İETT buses ⓘ |
| hubFor |
Turkish Airlines
ⓘ
surface form:
AnadoluJet
Turkish Airlines ⓘ
surface form:
Turkish Cargo
|
| IATAcode | IST ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | LTFM ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Arnavutköy
ⓘ
Istanbul Province ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Black Sea coast ⓘ |
| locatedOn | European side of Istanbul ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Istanbul
ⓘ
surface form:
city of Istanbul
|
| notableFor | being one of the world’s busiest airports by international passenger traffic ⓘ |
| numberOfRunways | 4 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 2018-10-29 ⓘ |
| operator | İGA Havalimanı İşletmesi A.Ş. ⓘ |
| owner | General Directorate of State Airports Authority ⓘ |
| plannedNumberOfRunways | 6 ⓘ |
| primaryHubFor | Turkish Airlines ⓘ |
| regionServed | Marmara Region ⓘ |
| replaced |
Istanbul Airport
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Atatürk Airport as main airport of Istanbul
|
| runway |
16L/34R
ⓘ
16R/34L ⓘ 17L/35R ⓘ 17R/35L ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servesAs |
major global transit hub
ⓘ
primary base for Turkish Airlines long-haul operations ⓘ primary international airport for Istanbul ⓘ |
| terminalType | single main passenger terminal ⓘ |
| timezone | TRT ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +03:00 ⓘ |
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: Istanbul Airport Description of subject: Istanbul Airport is a major international aviation hub in Turkey that serves as one of the world’s busiest airports and a primary base for Turkish Airlines.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Atatürk Airport as main airport of Istanbul
this entity surface form:
Istanbul Airport international terminal
subject surface form:
TAV Airports
this entity surface form:
Istanbul Atatürk Airport operation
this entity surface form:
Atatürk Airport
this entity surface form:
Istanbul Grand Airport
this entity surface form:
İstanbul Grand Airport
this entity surface form:
Istanbul Airport project
this entity surface form:
Istanbul airports