UA
E47401
UA is the two-letter IATA airline designator used worldwide to identify United Airlines on tickets, schedules, and flight information.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UA canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T374873 — 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: UA Context triple: [United Airlines, IATACode, UA]
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A.
UN
The UN is an international organization founded in 1945 that brings together most of the world’s countries to promote peace, security, cooperation, and human rights.
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B.
UST
UST is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Department of the Treasury, the federal executive department responsible for managing government revenue, producing currency, and formulating economic and financial policy.
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C.
SU
SU was the two-letter country code used to represent the former Soviet Union in various international standards and systems.
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D.
UM
UM is the commonly used abbreviation for the University of Miami, a private research university located in Coral Gables, Florida.
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E.
Ur
Ur was one of the most important ancient Sumerian city-states, renowned for its ziggurat and early urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia.
- 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: UA Target entity description: UA is the two-letter IATA airline designator used worldwide to identify United Airlines on tickets, schedules, and flight information.
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A.
UN
The UN is an international organization founded in 1945 that brings together most of the world’s countries to promote peace, security, cooperation, and human rights.
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B.
UST
UST is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Department of the Treasury, the federal executive department responsible for managing government revenue, producing currency, and formulating economic and financial policy.
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C.
SU
SU was the two-letter country code used to represent the former Soviet Union in various international standards and systems.
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D.
UM
UM is the commonly used abbreviation for the University of Miami, a private research university located in Coral Gables, Florida.
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E.
Ur
Ur was one of the most important ancient Sumerian city-states, renowned for its ziggurat and early urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | IATA airline designator ⓘ |
| airlineAlliance | Star Alliance ⓘ |
| airlineCallsign | United ⓘ |
| airlineCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| airlineICAOCode | UAL ⓘ |
| airlineName | United Airlines ⓘ |
| assignedBy | International Air Transport Association ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
IATA
ⓘ
linked to:
International Air Transport Association
|
| codeCategory | airline designator ⓘ |
| codeType | two-letter IATA code ⓘ |
| identifies |
United Airlines cargo flights
ⓘ
United Airlines passenger flights ⓘ |
| relatedStandard | IATA Airline Coding Directory ⓘ |
| represents | United Airlines ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | IATA Resolution 762 ⓘ |
| usedFor | airline identification ⓘ |
| usedInE-tickets | true ⓘ |
| usedInFlightNumbers | true ⓘ |
| usedInReservationSystems | true ⓘ |
| usedInTimetables | true ⓘ |
| usedOn |
airline tickets
ⓘ
flight information displays ⓘ flight schedules ⓘ |
| usedWorldwide | true ⓘ |
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: UA Description of subject: UA is the two-letter IATA airline designator used worldwide to identify United Airlines on tickets, schedules, and flight information.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.