Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort
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Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort is a major United States Marine Corps aviation facility known for hosting F/A-18 fighter squadrons and supporting Marine aviation training and operations in the southeastern United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort canonical | 7 |
| MCIEAST-Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort | 1 |
| Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort complex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3895850 — 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: Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Context triple: [Beaufort County, South Carolina, contains, Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort]
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A.
Marine Corps Air Station New River
Marine Corps Air Station New River is a major United States Marine Corps helicopter and tiltrotor aviation facility located near Jacksonville, North Carolina.
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B.
Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point
Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point is a major United States Marine Corps aviation facility and one of the largest Marine air stations, supporting fixed-wing and rotary-wing operations along the East Coast.
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C.
Joint Base Charleston
Joint Base Charleston is a major U.S. military installation that supports Air Force, Navy, Army, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and other Department of Defense operations in the Charleston, South Carolina area.
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D.
Marine Corps Support Facility Blount Island
Marine Corps Support Facility Blount Island is a major U.S. Marine Corps logistics and maritime prepositioning base that supports rapid deployment of forces worldwide.
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E.
Naval Air Station Whiting Field
Naval Air Station Whiting Field is a major U.S. Navy training air station that serves as one of the primary sites for training naval aviators and flight officers.
- 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: Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Target entity description: Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort is a major United States Marine Corps aviation facility known for hosting F/A-18 fighter squadrons and supporting Marine aviation training and operations in the southeastern United States.
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A.
Marine Corps Air Station New River
Marine Corps Air Station New River is a major United States Marine Corps helicopter and tiltrotor aviation facility located near Jacksonville, North Carolina.
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B.
Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point
Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point is a major United States Marine Corps aviation facility and one of the largest Marine air stations, supporting fixed-wing and rotary-wing operations along the East Coast.
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C.
Joint Base Charleston
Joint Base Charleston is a major U.S. military installation that supports Air Force, Navy, Army, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and other Department of Defense operations in the Charleston, South Carolina area.
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D.
Marine Corps Support Facility Blount Island
Marine Corps Support Facility Blount Island is a major U.S. Marine Corps logistics and maritime prepositioning base that supports rapid deployment of forces worldwide.
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E.
Naval Air Station Whiting Field
Naval Air Station Whiting Field is a major U.S. Navy training air station that serves as one of the primary sites for training naval aviators and flight officers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Marine Corps installation
ⓘ
military air base ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Fightertown East
ⓘ
MCAS Beaufort ⓘ |
| branch |
United States Marine Corps aviation units
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Marine Corps Aviation
|
| controlledBy | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| garrison | Marine Aircraft Group 31 ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Military installations in South Carolina
ⓘ
Marine Corps installations and commands ⓘ
surface form:
United States Marine Corps air stations
|
| hasEnvironmentalSetting | coastal region ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
logistics hub
ⓘ
operational base ⓘ training base ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface |
asphalt
ⓘ
concrete ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfAircraft |
F/A-18 Hornet
ⓘ
attack aircraft ⓘ fighter aircraft ⓘ |
| hostsUnit |
F/A-18 Hornet squadrons
ⓘ
F/A-18C Hornet squadrons ⓘ F/A-18D Hornet squadrons ⓘ Marine Aircraft Group 31 ⓘ |
| IATACode | BFT ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | KNBC ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Beaufort County, South Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Carolina ⓘ Southern United States ⓘ
surface form:
southeastern United States
|
| locatedNear | Atlantic coast ⓘ |
| militaryBranchServed | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Beaufort, South Carolina ⓘ |
| operator | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| partOf | Marine Corps Installations East ⓘ |
| primaryMission |
support Marine Corps aviation operations
ⓘ
support Marine aviation training ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
southeastern United States
|
| role | fighter and attack aircraft base ⓘ |
| supports |
carrier air wing training
ⓘ
deployable combat-ready squadrons ⓘ fleet replacement training ⓘ joint training exercises ⓘ |
| supportsOperationsOf |
Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)
ⓘ
surface form:
Marine Expeditionary Units
carrier air wings ⓘ |
| timezone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| usedFor |
maintenance and logistics support
ⓘ
operational readiness training ⓘ pilot training ⓘ weapons training ⓘ |
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: Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Description of subject: Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort is a major United States Marine Corps aviation facility known for hosting F/A-18 fighter squadrons and supporting Marine aviation training and operations in the southeastern United States.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort complex
this entity surface form:
MCIEAST-Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort