Air China
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Air China is the flag carrier and one of the largest airlines of the People's Republic of China, operating extensive domestic and international passenger and cargo services.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Air China canonical | 34 |
| AIR CHINA | 2 |
| Air China Inner Mongolia | 2 |
| Air China (on China routes) | 1 |
| Air China Cargo | 1 |
| Air China Import and Export | 1 |
| Air China Limited | 1 |
| CA (IATA airline designator of Air China) | 1 |
| 中国国际航空公司 | 1 |
| 国航 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T383889 — 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: Air China Context triple: [Cathay Pacific, majorShareholder, Air China]
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A.
China Southern Airlines
China Southern Airlines is one of China’s largest airlines, operating extensive domestic and international routes from major hubs like Guangzhou and Beijing.
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B.
China Eastern Airlines
China Eastern Airlines is a major Chinese airline based in Shanghai that operates extensive domestic and international routes as one of the country’s largest carriers.
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C.
China Airlines
China Airlines is the flag carrier of Taiwan, operating an extensive network of international passenger and cargo flights across Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania.
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D.
Cathay Pacific
Cathay Pacific is a major Hong Kong-based international airline known for its extensive global network and premium full-service operations.
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E.
Korean Air
Korean Air is South Korea’s largest airline and flag carrier, operating extensive international and domestic passenger and cargo services worldwide.
- 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: Air China Target entity description: Air China is the flag carrier and one of the largest airlines of the People's Republic of China, operating extensive domestic and international passenger and cargo services.
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A.
China Southern Airlines
China Southern Airlines is one of China’s largest airlines, operating extensive domestic and international routes from major hubs like Guangzhou and Beijing.
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B.
China Eastern Airlines
China Eastern Airlines is a major Chinese airline based in Shanghai that operates extensive domestic and international routes as one of the country’s largest carriers.
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C.
China Airlines
China Airlines is the flag carrier of Taiwan, operating an extensive network of international passenger and cargo flights across Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania.
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D.
Cathay Pacific
Cathay Pacific is a major Hong Kong-based international airline known for its extensive global network and premium full-service operations.
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E.
Korean Air
Korean Air is South Korea’s largest airline and flag carrier, operating extensive international and domestic passenger and cargo services worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Air China Description of subject: Air China is the flag carrier and one of the largest airlines of the People's Republic of China, operating extensive domestic and international passenger and cargo services.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Air China Cargo
this entity surface form:
Air China Inner Mongolia
this entity surface form:
中国国际航空公司
this entity surface form:
国航
subject surface form:
Terminal 3 (Beijing Capital International Airport)
subject surface form:
China Eastern Airlines
subject surface form:
Air China
this entity surface form:
AIR CHINA
this entity surface form:
Air China Inner Mongolia
this entity surface form:
Air China Import and Export
this entity surface form:
Air China Limited
subject surface form:
Cathay Dragon
this entity surface form:
Air China (on China routes)