Sewart Air Force Base (former)
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Sewart Air Force Base was a former United States Air Force installation near Smyrna, Tennessee, that served primarily as a major training and transport hub during the mid-20th century before its closure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sewart Air Force Base (former) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4239492 — 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: Sewart Air Force Base (former) Context triple: [Smyrna, Tennessee, United States, hasMilitaryHistory, Sewart Air Force Base (former)]
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A.
Stewart Air National Guard Base
Stewart Air National Guard Base is a military installation in New York that hosts Air National Guard units and operations alongside the civilian facilities of Stewart International Airport.
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B.
Walker Air Force Base (former)
Walker Air Force Base (former) was a major United States Air Force installation in New Mexico that played a key role in Strategic Air Command operations during the Cold War before its closure in the late 1960s.
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C.
March Air Reserve Base
March Air Reserve Base is a major United States Air Force installation and Air Force Reserve Command base located in Southern California.
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D.
Howard Air Force Base
Howard Air Force Base was a major United States Air Force installation in Panama that played a key role in military air operations and testing throughout the Cold War and beyond.
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E.
Otis Air Force Base
Otis Air Force Base is a former U.S. military installation on Cape Cod in Massachusetts that served as a key Air Force and Air National Guard facility during much of the 20th century.
- 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: Sewart Air Force Base (former) Target entity description: Sewart Air Force Base was a former United States Air Force installation near Smyrna, Tennessee, that served primarily as a major training and transport hub during the mid-20th century before its closure.
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A.
Stewart Air National Guard Base
Stewart Air National Guard Base is a military installation in New York that hosts Air National Guard units and operations alongside the civilian facilities of Stewart International Airport.
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B.
Walker Air Force Base (former)
Walker Air Force Base (former) was a major United States Air Force installation in New Mexico that played a key role in Strategic Air Command operations during the Cold War before its closure in the late 1960s.
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C.
March Air Reserve Base
March Air Reserve Base is a major United States Air Force installation and Air Force Reserve Command base located in Southern California.
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D.
Howard Air Force Base
Howard Air Force Base was a major United States Air Force installation in Panama that played a key role in military air operations and testing throughout the Cold War and beyond.
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E.
Otis Air Force Base
Otis Air Force Base is a former U.S. military installation on Cape Cod in Massachusetts that served as a key Air Force and Air National Guard facility during much of the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | former United States Air Force base ⓘ |
| afterUse |
Smyrna Airport
ⓘ
Smyrna/Rutherford County Airport ⓘ industrial park ⓘ |
| aircraftStationed |
Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar
ⓘ
Fairchild C-123 Provider ⓘ Lockheed C-130 Hercules ⓘ |
| closureDate | 1971 ⓘ |
| conflict | Vietnam War era airlift support (training and staging) ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | geographic coordinates in Middle Tennessee ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerName | Smyrna Army Airfield ⓘ |
| garrison |
314th Tactical Airlift Wing
ⓘ
linked to:
314th Troop Carrier Wing
314th Troop Carrier Wing ⓘ 64th Troop Carrier Wing ⓘ USAF Tactical Air Command units ⓘ
linked to:
Tactical Air Command
|
| hasRunwaySurface | concrete ⓘ |
| inception | 1940s ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Rutherford County, Tennessee
ⓘ
Tennessee ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| location | near Smyrna, Tennessee ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Allan J. Sewart Jr. ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Nashville, Tennessee
ⓘ
Smyrna, Tennessee ⓘ |
| notableRole |
major training hub for USAF transport crews
ⓘ
major transport hub in mid-20th century ⓘ primary C-130 Hercules training base in early C-130 era ⓘ |
| operator | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf |
Continental Air Command
ⓘ
Military Air Transport Service ⓘ
linked to:
Air Transport Command
Tactical Air Command ⓘ |
| serviceEntry |
United States Air Force period
ⓘ
United States Army Air Forces period ⓘ |
| startDate | World War II era ⓘ |
| status | closed ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| usedDuring |
Cold War
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| usedFor |
C-119 Flying Boxcar operations
ⓘ
C-123 Provider operations ⓘ C-130 Hercules training ⓘ aircrew training ⓘ airlift training ⓘ pilot training ⓘ tactical airlift operations ⓘ transport aircraft training ⓘ troop carrier operations ⓘ |
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: Sewart Air Force Base (former) Description of subject: Sewart Air Force Base was a former United States Air Force installation near Smyrna, Tennessee, that served primarily as a major training and transport hub during the mid-20th century before its closure.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.