CMB
E424704
CMB is the three-letter IATA airport code for Bandaranaike International Airport, the main international gateway to Sri Lanka near Colombo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CMB canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4255790 — 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: CMB Context triple: [Bandaranaike International Airport, IATAcode, CMB]
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A.
CMB
CMB is the National Rail station code for Cambridge North railway station in Cambridge, England.
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B.
CMB
CMB is a U.S. Army decoration awarded to medical personnel who provide frontline medical care while engaged in active ground combat.
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C.
cosmic microwave background
The cosmic microwave background is the faint, nearly uniform afterglow radiation permeating the universe, providing a snapshot of the cosmos about 380,000 years after the Big Bang.
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D.
WMAP
WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) was a NASA space observatory that precisely mapped the cosmic microwave background radiation, revolutionizing our understanding of the universe’s age, composition, and development.
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E.
Planck 2013 results
Planck 2013 results is the first major cosmological data release from the Planck mission, providing high-precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background that refined key parameters of the standard model of cosmology.
- 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: CMB Target entity description: CMB is the three-letter IATA airport code for Bandaranaike International Airport, the main international gateway to Sri Lanka near Colombo.
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A.
CMB
CMB is the National Rail station code for Cambridge North railway station in Cambridge, England.
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B.
CMB
CMB is a U.S. Army decoration awarded to medical personnel who provide frontline medical care while engaged in active ground combat.
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C.
cosmic microwave background
The cosmic microwave background is the faint, nearly uniform afterglow radiation permeating the universe, providing a snapshot of the cosmos about 380,000 years after the Big Bang.
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D.
WMAP
WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) was a NASA space observatory that precisely mapped the cosmic microwave background radiation, revolutionizing our understanding of the universe’s age, composition, and development.
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E.
Planck 2013 results
Planck 2013 results is the first major cosmological data release from the Planck mission, providing high-precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background that refined key parameters of the standard model of cosmology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IATA airport code
ⓘ
international airport ⓘ |
| appliesTo | Bandaranaike International Airport ⓘ |
| codeType |
IATA
ⓘ
linked to:
International Air Transport Association
|
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| IATACode | CMB ⓘ |
| isThreeLetterCode | true ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Colombo ⓘ |
| represents | Bandaranaike International Airport ⓘ |
| servesCity | Colombo ⓘ |
| usedFor | commercial aviation ⓘ |
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: CMB Description of subject: CMB is the three-letter IATA airport code for Bandaranaike International Airport, the main international gateway to Sri Lanka near Colombo.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.