Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport
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Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport is a public airport serving the city of Bauchi in northeastern Nigeria, named after the country’s first Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3191250 — 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: Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport Context triple: [Bauchi, hasAirport, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport]
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A.
Yakubu Gowon Airport
Yakubu Gowon Airport is a domestic airport serving the city of Jos in Plateau State, Nigeria, named after former Nigerian Head of State General Yakubu Gowon.
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B.
Murtala Muhammed International Airport
Murtala Muhammed International Airport is the main international gateway to Nigeria and one of Africa’s busiest airports, serving the city of Lagos.
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C.
Kaduna International Airport
Kaduna International Airport is a major airport in northern Nigeria that serves the city of Kaduna with domestic and limited international flights.
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D.
Akanu Ibiam International Airport
Akanu Ibiam International Airport is a major airport serving Enugu and the surrounding region in southeastern Nigeria, handling both domestic and international flights.
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E.
Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport
Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport is a major international airport in northern Nigeria serving the city of Kano and surrounding regions.
- 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: Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport Target entity description: Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport is a public airport serving the city of Bauchi in northeastern Nigeria, named after the country’s first Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.
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A.
Yakubu Gowon Airport
Yakubu Gowon Airport is a domestic airport serving the city of Jos in Plateau State, Nigeria, named after former Nigerian Head of State General Yakubu Gowon.
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B.
Murtala Muhammed International Airport
Murtala Muhammed International Airport is the main international gateway to Nigeria and one of Africa’s busiest airports, serving the city of Lagos.
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C.
Kaduna International Airport
Kaduna International Airport is a major airport in northern Nigeria that serves the city of Kaduna with domestic and limited international flights.
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D.
Akanu Ibiam International Airport
Akanu Ibiam International Airport is a major airport serving Enugu and the surrounding region in southeastern Nigeria, handling both domestic and international flights.
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E.
Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport
Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport is a major international airport in northern Nigeria serving the city of Kano and surrounding regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| hasNameSuffix | International Airport ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| IATAcode | BCU ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | DNBC ⓘ |
| isPublic | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bauchi State
ⓘ
northeastern Nigeria ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
ⓘ
linked to:
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
|
| namedAfterGivenName | Abubakar ⓘ |
| namedAfterSurname |
Tafawa Balewa
ⓘ
linked to:
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
|
| namedAfterTitle | Sir ⓘ |
| namedForCountryLeader |
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
ⓘ
linked to:
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
|
| namedForOccupation | first Prime Minister of Nigeria ⓘ |
| operator | Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria ⓘ |
| runwayDesignation | 18/36 ⓘ |
| runwayLengthFeet | 10171 ⓘ |
| runwayLengthMeters | 3100 ⓘ |
| serves | Bauchi ⓘ |
| servesCity | Bauchi ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Bauchi State
ⓘ
northeastern Nigeria ⓘ |
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: Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport Description of subject: Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport is a public airport serving the city of Bauchi in northeastern Nigeria, named after the country’s first Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.