VCBI
E424705
VCBI is the ICAO airport code for Bandaranaike International Airport, the main international gateway to Sri Lanka located near Colombo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| VCBI canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4255791 — 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: VCBI Context triple: [Bandaranaike International Airport, ICAOcode, VCBI]
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A.
VIC
VIC is the standard abbreviation for the Australian state of Victoria, commonly used in postal addresses and official contexts.
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B.
VIC
VIC is the National Rail station code for London Victoria, a major central London railway terminus and Underground station.
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C.
VIBN
VIBN is the ICAO airport code for Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport serving Varanasi, India.
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D.
VCFA
VCFA is a low-residency graduate arts college in Montpelier, Vermont, offering MFA and other advanced programs in disciplines such as writing, visual art, and music composition.
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E.
CVM
CVM is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, which regulates the safety and effectiveness of animal drugs and medicated feeds.
- 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: VCBI Target entity description: VCBI is the ICAO airport code for Bandaranaike International Airport, the main international gateway to Sri Lanka located near Colombo.
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A.
VIC
VIC is the standard abbreviation for the Australian state of Victoria, commonly used in postal addresses and official contexts.
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B.
VIC
VIC is the National Rail station code for London Victoria, a major central London railway terminus and Underground station.
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C.
VIBN
VIBN is the ICAO airport code for Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport serving Varanasi, India.
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D.
VCFA
VCFA is a low-residency graduate arts college in Montpelier, Vermont, offering MFA and other advanced programs in disciplines such as writing, visual art, and music composition.
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E.
CVM
CVM is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, which regulates the safety and effectiveness of animal drugs and medicated feeds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ICAO airport code
ⓘ
airport ⓘ international airport ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| distanceFromCityCentre | about 32 km north of Colombo ⓘ |
| elevation |
30 feet
ⓘ
9 meters ⓘ |
| hasCargoTerminal | yes ⓘ |
| hasTerminal |
domestic terminal
ⓘ
international terminal ⓘ |
| hubFor |
FitsAir
ⓘ
SriLankan Airlines ⓘ |
| IATACode | CMB ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | VCBI ⓘ |
| ICAOCodeFor | Bandaranaike International Airport ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Katunayake
ⓘ
Western Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Colombo ⓘ |
| namedAfter | S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike ⓘ |
| opened | 1967 ⓘ |
| operator | Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Limited ⓘ |
| previousName | Katunayake Airport ⓘ |
| role | main international gateway to Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| runway |
04/22
ⓘ
04R/22L ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servesCity | Colombo ⓘ |
| timeZone | Sri Lanka Standard Time ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +05:30 ⓘ |
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: VCBI Description of subject: VCBI is the ICAO airport code for Bandaranaike International Airport, the main international gateway to Sri Lanka located near Colombo.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.