Doncaster Sheffield Airport
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Doncaster Sheffield Airport was a regional airport in South Yorkshire, England, serving both domestic and international flights before its closure in 2022.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Doncaster Sheffield Airport canonical | 3 |
| Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield | 2 |
| Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4223104 — 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: Doncaster Sheffield Airport Context triple: [VIR, airlineFocusCityOfIdentifiedAirline, Doncaster Sheffield Airport]
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A.
East Midlands Airport
East Midlands Airport is a major regional airport in Leicestershire, England, serving cities such as Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester with domestic and international flights.
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B.
Leeds Bradford Airport
Leeds Bradford Airport is an international airport in West Yorkshire, England, serving the Leeds and Bradford region and acting as a major base for low-cost and holiday airlines.
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C.
Teesside International Airport
Teesside International Airport is a regional airport in North East England serving the Teesside and County Durham area with domestic and limited international flights.
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D.
Coventry Airport
Coventry Airport is a regional airport in the West Midlands of England that has historically handled charter, cargo, and general aviation flights.
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E.
Humberside Airport
Humberside Airport is a regional airport in North Lincolnshire, England, offering domestic and international flights and serving as a key gateway for the surrounding Humber region.
- 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: Doncaster Sheffield Airport Target entity description: Doncaster Sheffield Airport was a regional airport in South Yorkshire, England, serving both domestic and international flights before its closure in 2022.
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A.
East Midlands Airport
East Midlands Airport is a major regional airport in Leicestershire, England, serving cities such as Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester with domestic and international flights.
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B.
Leeds Bradford Airport
Leeds Bradford Airport is an international airport in West Yorkshire, England, serving the Leeds and Bradford region and acting as a major base for low-cost and holiday airlines.
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C.
Teesside International Airport
Teesside International Airport is a regional airport in North East England serving the Teesside and County Durham area with domestic and limited international flights.
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D.
Coventry Airport
Coventry Airport is a regional airport in the West Midlands of England that has historically handled charter, cargo, and general aviation flights.
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E.
Humberside Airport
Humberside Airport is a regional airport in North Lincolnshire, England, offering domestic and international flights and serving as a key gateway for the surrounding Humber region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
defunct airport ⓘ |
| builtOn | former RAF Finningley ⓘ |
| ceasedOperations | 2022 ⓘ |
| cityServed |
Doncaster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sheffield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closedToPassengerFlights | 2022-11 ⓘ |
| closureAnnounced | 2022-09 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| elevation | 17 m ⓘ |
| formerName |
Finningley Airport
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadCargoOperations | true ⓘ |
| hadPassengerServicesTo |
European destinations
ⓘ
domestic destinations in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hadPassengerTerminal | single terminal building ⓘ |
| hadRailConnection | no dedicated mainline station ⓘ |
| IATAcode | DSA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | EGCN NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Finningley NERFINISHED ⓘ South Yorkshire ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
A1(M) motorway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
M18 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestRailwayStation | Doncaster railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 2005 ⓘ |
| operator | Peel Airports NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Peel Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUseBeforeCivilConversion | Royal Air Force base ⓘ |
| regionServed | Yorkshire and the Humber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runwayCount | 1 ⓘ |
| runwayDesignation | 02/20 ⓘ |
| runwayLength | 2893 m ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servedArea |
Humberside
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lincolnshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Nottinghamshire NERFINISHED ⓘ South Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedMetropolitanArea | Sheffield City Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves |
Doncaster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sheffield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timezone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| type | public airport ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cargo flights
ⓘ
charter flights ⓘ civil aviation ⓘ holiday flights ⓘ |
| wasBaseFor | Wizz Air UK NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasRegionalHubFor | TUI Airways NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Doncaster Sheffield Airport Description of subject: Doncaster Sheffield Airport was a regional airport in South Yorkshire, England, serving both domestic and international flights before its closure in 2022.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Doncaster Sheffield Airport
this entity surface form:
Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield
subject surface form:
Doncaster Sheffield Airport
this entity surface form:
Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA)
this entity surface form:
Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield