AWC
E315681
AWC is the U.S. Aviation Weather Center, a National Weather Service unit that provides critical weather forecasts and warnings for aviation safety.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AWC canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2994927 — 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: AWC Context triple: [Aviation Weather Center, abbreviation, AWC]
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A.
AWOC
AWOC (Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee) was a labor organization that played a key role in organizing farmworkers in the United States, particularly Filipino agricultural laborers, and later merged into the United Farm Workers.
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B.
AW
AW is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Aruba.
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C.
CWC
CWC is an abbreviation for Contemporary World Cinema, a program section that showcases recent international films at major film festivals.
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D.
CWC
CWC is an international treaty that outlaws the development, production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons and mandates their destruction under international verification.
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E.
CWC
CWC is the commonly used abbreviation for the CONCACAF Women's Championship, the premier women's national team football tournament in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
- 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: AWC Target entity description: AWC is the U.S. Aviation Weather Center, a National Weather Service unit that provides critical weather forecasts and warnings for aviation safety.
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A.
AWOC
AWOC (Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee) was a labor organization that played a key role in organizing farmworkers in the United States, particularly Filipino agricultural laborers, and later merged into the United Farm Workers.
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B.
AW
AW is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Aruba.
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C.
CWC
CWC is an abbreviation for Contemporary World Cinema, a program section that showcases recent international films at major film festivals.
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D.
CWC
CWC is an international treaty that outlaws the development, production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons and mandates their destruction under international verification.
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E.
CWC
CWC is the commonly used abbreviation for the CONCACAF Women's Championship, the premier women's national team football tournament in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Aviation weather center
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National Weather Service center ⓘ United States government agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | AWC self-link ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Federal Aviation Administration
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International Civil Aviation Organization ⓘ Other National Weather Service centers ⓘ |
| communicationChannel |
Data services for aviation users
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Web-based aviation weather portal ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| customer |
Air traffic controllers
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Airlines ⓘ General aviation users ⓘ International aviation community ⓘ Pilots ⓘ |
| dataSource |
Numerical weather prediction models
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Radar observations ⓘ Satellite observations ⓘ Surface and upper-air observations ⓘ |
| focus |
Hazardous weather for aviation
ⓘ
Operational aviation meteorology ⓘ |
| fullName | Aviation Weather Center ⓘ |
| goal | Support safe and efficient flight operations ⓘ |
| industry | Meteorology ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal government of the United States
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| mission | Enhance aviation safety and efficiency through timely and accurate weather information ⓘ |
| operatesWebsite | aviationweather.gov ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ⓘ National Weather Service ⓘ U.S. Department of Commerce ⓘ |
| primaryRole | Provide aviation weather forecasts and warnings ⓘ |
| provides |
Area Forecasts for aviation
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Aviation weather warnings ⓘ Ceiling and visibility guidance ⓘ Graphical aviation weather products ⓘ Icing forecasts ⓘ International SIGMET coordination ⓘ Significant Meteorological Information advisories ⓘ Thunderstorm forecasts ⓘ Turbulence forecasts ⓘ |
| purpose | Provide critical weather information for aviation safety ⓘ |
| sector | Aviation ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Domestic United States airspace
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International airspace used by U.S. 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: AWC Description of subject: AWC is the U.S. Aviation Weather Center, a National Weather Service unit that provides critical weather forecasts and warnings for aviation safety.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.