Sphinx International Airport
E35792
Sphinx International Airport is a relatively new Egyptian airport located near the Giza pyramids, serving the western side of Greater Cairo and aiming to ease congestion at Cairo International Airport and boost tourism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sphinx International Airport canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T229335 — 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: Sphinx International Airport Context triple: [Greater Cairo metropolitan area, hasInternationalAirport, Sphinx International Airport]
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A.
Friendship International Airport
Friendship International Airport was the original name of the major airport now known as Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, serving the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.
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B.
Sheremetyevo International Airport
Sheremetyevo International Airport is one of Russia’s largest and busiest airports, serving as a major international gateway to Moscow and a key hub for Aeroflot.
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C.
Domodedovo International Airport
Domodedovo International Airport is one of Moscow’s major international airports and a key air transport hub in Russia.
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D.
Henry E. Rohlsen Airport
Henry E. Rohlsen Airport is a public airport on the island of St. Croix that serves as one of the main air gateways to the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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E.
Zhukovsky International Airport
Zhukovsky International Airport is a Russian international airport serving the Moscow region, known for its role in both civil aviation and aerospace-related activities.
- 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: Sphinx International Airport Target entity description: Sphinx International Airport is a relatively new Egyptian airport located near the Giza pyramids, serving the western side of Greater Cairo and aiming to ease congestion at Cairo International Airport and boost tourism.
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A.
Friendship International Airport
Friendship International Airport was the original name of the major airport now known as Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, serving the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.
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B.
Sheremetyevo International Airport
Sheremetyevo International Airport is one of Russia’s largest and busiest airports, serving as a major international gateway to Moscow and a key hub for Aeroflot.
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C.
Domodedovo International Airport
Domodedovo International Airport is one of Moscow’s major international airports and a key air transport hub in Russia.
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D.
Henry E. Rohlsen Airport
Henry E. Rohlsen Airport is a public airport on the island of St. Croix that serves as one of the main air gateways to the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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E.
Zhukovsky International Airport
Zhukovsky International Airport is a Russian international airport serving the Moscow region, known for its role in both civil aviation and aerospace-related activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
international airport ⓘ |
| cityServed |
Cairo
ⓘ
Giza ⓘ Greater Cairo metropolitan area ⓘ
surface form:
Greater Cairo
|
| country | Egypt ⓘ |
| hasAccessRoad | Cairo–Alexandria Desert Road ⓘ |
| hasBaggageClaim | yes ⓘ |
| hasCheckInCounters | yes ⓘ |
| hasCustoms | yes ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
charter flights
ⓘ
domestic flights ⓘ international flights ⓘ seasonal flights ⓘ |
| hasImmigration | yes ⓘ |
| hasParkingFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| hasPassengerTerminal | yes ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| hasRunwayType | paved runway ⓘ |
| hasSecurityScreening | yes ⓘ |
| IATAcode | SPX ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | HESX ⓘ |
| isCivilAirport | yes ⓘ |
| isPublicUse | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Giza Governorate
ⓘ
western side of Greater Cairo ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Eastern European Time
ⓘ
UTC+02:00 ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Giza Pyramids
ⓘ
surface form:
Giza pyramids
Great Pyramid of Giza ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Great Sphinx of Giza ⓘ |
| nearbyAttraction |
Giza Pyramids
ⓘ
surface form:
Giza pyramid complex
|
| nearbyCity |
6th of October City
ⓘ
Sheikh Zayed City ⓘ |
| operator |
Ministry of Civil Aviation of Egypt
ⓘ
surface form:
Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation
|
| partOfTransportNetwork | Egyptian civil aviation network ⓘ |
| purpose |
boost tourism
ⓘ
ease congestion at Cairo International Airport ⓘ serve 6th of October City ⓘ serve Sheikh Zayed City ⓘ serve western Cairo districts ⓘ |
| regionServed | west bank of the Nile near Cairo ⓘ |
| role |
reliever airport for Cairo International Airport
ⓘ
tourism gateway for Giza pyramids ⓘ |
| servesMetropolitanArea |
Greater Cairo metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Greater Cairo
|
| servesSector |
air transport sector
ⓘ
tourism sector ⓘ |
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: Sphinx International Airport Description of subject: Sphinx International Airport is a relatively new Egyptian airport located near the Giza pyramids, serving the western side of Greater Cairo and aiming to ease congestion at Cairo International Airport and boost tourism.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.