Oban Airport
E418403
Oban Airport is a small regional airport in Scotland that serves the town of Oban and the surrounding Argyll and Bute area with mainly domestic and island flights.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oban Airport canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4173672 — 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: Oban Airport Context triple: [Argyll and Bute, hasAirport, Oban Airport]
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A.
Stornoway Airport
Stornoway Airport is a regional airport on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, providing vital domestic connections and serving as a key transport hub for the Western Isles.
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B.
Benbecula Airport
Benbecula Airport is a small regional airport in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides that provides vital air links for local communities and is primarily served by Loganair.
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C.
Islay Airport
Islay Airport is a small regional airport on the Scottish island of Islay that provides domestic flights and connects the island to mainland Scotland.
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D.
Tiree Airport
Tiree Airport is a small regional airport on the Isle of Tiree in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, providing vital air links between the island and the Scottish mainland.
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E.
Kirkwall Airport
Kirkwall Airport is a regional airport in Orkney, Scotland, serving as a key hub for inter-island and mainland flights.
- 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: Oban Airport Target entity description: Oban Airport is a small regional airport in Scotland that serves the town of Oban and the surrounding Argyll and Bute area with mainly domestic and island flights.
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A.
Stornoway Airport
Stornoway Airport is a regional airport on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, providing vital domestic connections and serving as a key transport hub for the Western Isles.
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B.
Benbecula Airport
Benbecula Airport is a small regional airport in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides that provides vital air links for local communities and is primarily served by Loganair.
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C.
Islay Airport
Islay Airport is a small regional airport on the Scottish island of Islay that provides domestic flights and connects the island to mainland Scotland.
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D.
Tiree Airport
Tiree Airport is a small regional airport on the Isle of Tiree in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, providing vital air links between the island and the Scottish mainland.
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E.
Kirkwall Airport
Kirkwall Airport is a regional airport in Orkney, Scotland, serving as a key hub for inter-island and mainland flights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
regional airport ⓘ |
| cityServed | Oban ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
car park
ⓘ
control tower ⓘ terminal building ⓘ |
| hasRole | lifeline air service hub ⓘ |
| hasServiceTo |
Barra
ⓘ
Coll ⓘ Colonsay ONNED1 ⓘ Islay NERFINISHED ⓘ Tiree ⓘ |
| IATAcode | OBN ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | EGEO ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Argyll and Bute
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Oban Bay ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Scottish mainland ⓘ |
| operator | Argyll and Bute Council ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Argyll and Bute Council ⓘ |
| regionServed | Inner Hebrides ⓘ |
| runwayCount | 1 ⓘ |
| runwayDesignation | 01/19 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves |
Argyll and Bute
ⓘ
Oban ⓘ |
| servesRegionType | rural communities ⓘ |
| servesType |
domestic flights
ⓘ
island flights ⓘ |
| supports |
island connectivity
ⓘ
tourism in Argyll and Bute ⓘ |
| timezone | UTC±00:00 ⓘ |
| timezoneDST | UTC+01:00 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
charter flights
ⓘ
general aviation ⓘ public transport ⓘ |
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: Oban Airport Description of subject: Oban Airport is a small regional airport in Scotland that serves the town of Oban and the surrounding Argyll and Bute area with mainly domestic and island flights.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.