Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois
E481448
Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois is a regional public airport serving the Carbondale–Marion area in southern Illinois, providing commercial and general aviation services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4940214 — 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: Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois Context triple: [Carbondale, Illinois, hasAirport, Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois]
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A.
St. Clair County International Airport
St. Clair County International Airport is a public airport serving general aviation and regional air traffic for St. Clair County in eastern Michigan near the Canadian border.
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B.
Vinton Veterans Memorial Airport
Vinton Veterans Memorial Airport is a public-use airport serving the city of Vinton in Benton County, Iowa, primarily accommodating general aviation activities.
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C.
Central Illinois Regional Airport
Central Illinois Regional Airport is a public airport in Bloomington, Illinois, providing commercial air service and general aviation facilities for the surrounding Central Illinois region.
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D.
Terre Haute Regional Airport
Terre Haute Regional Airport is a public airport serving the Terre Haute, Indiana area, providing facilities for commercial, general aviation, and military operations.
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E.
Greater Kankakee Airport
Greater Kankakee Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Kankakee and surrounding communities in northeastern Illinois.
- 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: Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois Target entity description: Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois is a regional public airport serving the Carbondale–Marion area in southern Illinois, providing commercial and general aviation services.
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A.
St. Clair County International Airport
St. Clair County International Airport is a public airport serving general aviation and regional air traffic for St. Clair County in eastern Michigan near the Canadian border.
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B.
Vinton Veterans Memorial Airport
Vinton Veterans Memorial Airport is a public-use airport serving the city of Vinton in Benton County, Iowa, primarily accommodating general aviation activities.
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C.
Central Illinois Regional Airport
Central Illinois Regional Airport is a public airport in Bloomington, Illinois, providing commercial air service and general aviation facilities for the surrounding Central Illinois region.
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D.
Terre Haute Regional Airport
Terre Haute Regional Airport is a public airport serving the Terre Haute, Indiana area, providing facilities for commercial, general aviation, and military operations.
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E.
Greater Kankakee Airport
Greater Kankakee Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Kankakee and surrounding communities in northeastern Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ regional airport ⓘ |
| category | regional public airport ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
144 meters
ⓘ
472 feet ⓘ |
| FAAIdentifier | MWA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerlyKnownAs | Williamson County Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAirlineService | Contour Airlines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
air traffic control tower
ⓘ
aircraft parking apron ⓘ general aviation hangars ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid | instrument approach procedures ⓘ |
| hasParking | public automobile parking ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
Runway 11/29
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Runway 2/20 ⓘ |
| hasTerminal | passenger terminal building ⓘ |
| hasUse |
air taxi operations
ⓘ
flight training ⓘ military operations ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://veteransairport.com/ ⓘ |
| IATACode | MWA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | KMWA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
Southern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Williamson County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| offersServiceType |
commercial air service
ⓘ
general aviation ⓘ |
| openedForService | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| operator | Veterans Airport Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Williamson County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | Southern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runwayDesignation |
11/29
ⓘ
2/20 ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
1372 meters
ⓘ
1981 meters ⓘ 4500 feet ⓘ 6500 feet ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servedByProgram | Essential Air Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves |
Carbondale, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carbondale–Marion metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ Marion, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsActivity |
business aviation
ⓘ
recreational flying ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois Description of subject: Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois is a regional public airport serving the Carbondale–Marion area in southern Illinois, providing commercial and general aviation services.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.