RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire
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RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire is a major Royal Air Force station best known as a front-line Typhoon fighter base and home to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| RAF Coningsby | 3 |
| RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3878815 — 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: RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire Context triple: [No. 29 Squadron RAF, location, RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire]
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RAF Waddington
RAF Waddington is a major Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, known primarily as a hub for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance operations and as the home base of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team.
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B.
RAF Cranwell
RAF Cranwell is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, best known as the home of the RAF College Cranwell, the world’s first air academy for training air force officers.
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RAF Chicksands
RAF Chicksands is a former Royal Air Force station in Bedfordshire, England, historically used as a major signals intelligence and listening post during the Cold War.
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RAF Bicester
RAF Bicester is a former Royal Air Force station in Oxfordshire, England, notable as one of the best-preserved examples of an interwar bomber base and now partly used for heritage, commercial, and recreational purposes.
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E.
RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey
RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, that served as a key fighter base during the Second World War.
- 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: RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire Target entity description: RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire is a major Royal Air Force station best known as a front-line Typhoon fighter base and home to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
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A.
RAF Waddington
RAF Waddington is a major Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, known primarily as a hub for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance operations and as the home base of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team.
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B.
RAF Cranwell
RAF Cranwell is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, best known as the home of the RAF College Cranwell, the world’s first air academy for training air force officers.
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C.
RAF Chicksands
RAF Chicksands is a former Royal Air Force station in Bedfordshire, England, historically used as a major signals intelligence and listening post during the Cold War.
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D.
RAF Bicester
RAF Bicester is a former Royal Air Force station in Oxfordshire, England, notable as one of the best-preserved examples of an interwar bomber base and now partly used for heritage, commercial, and recreational purposes.
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E.
RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey
RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, that served as a key fighter base during the Second World War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire Description of subject: RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire is a major Royal Air Force station best known as a front-line Typhoon fighter base and home to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
RAF Coningsby
this entity surface form:
RAF Coningsby
this entity surface form:
RAF Coningsby
subject surface form:
No. 29 Squadron RAF