Samedan Airport
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Samedan Airport is a high-altitude regional airport in Switzerland serving the Engadin valley and the resort town of St. Moritz, known for its challenging alpine approach.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samedan Airport canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5046377 — 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: Samedan Airport Context triple: [St. Moritz, hasNearbyAirport, Samedan Airport]
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A.
Saanen Airport
Saanen Airport is a small regional airfield in the Swiss Alps that primarily serves the upscale resort area of Gstaad, handling private and charter flights.
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B.
Aosta Valley Airport
Aosta Valley Airport is a small regional airport in Italy’s Aosta Valley that serves as an access point to the surrounding Alpine region and its ski resorts.
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C.
Bern-Belp Airport
Bern-Belp Airport is a small regional airport serving the city of Bern, Switzerland, primarily handling domestic and short-haul European flights.
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D.
Innsbruck Airport
Innsbruck Airport is a regional international airport in western Austria serving the city of Innsbruck and the surrounding Tyrolean Alps, known for its challenging approach amid mountainous terrain and seasonal tourism traffic.
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E.
Tivat Airport
Tivat Airport is a coastal international airport in Montenegro that serves the popular tourist region around the Bay of Kotor and the Adriatic coast.
- 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: Samedan Airport Target entity description: Samedan Airport is a high-altitude regional airport in Switzerland serving the Engadin valley and the resort town of St. Moritz, known for its challenging alpine approach.
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A.
Saanen Airport
Saanen Airport is a small regional airfield in the Swiss Alps that primarily serves the upscale resort area of Gstaad, handling private and charter flights.
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B.
Aosta Valley Airport
Aosta Valley Airport is a small regional airport in Italy’s Aosta Valley that serves as an access point to the surrounding Alpine region and its ski resorts.
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C.
Bern-Belp Airport
Bern-Belp Airport is a small regional airport serving the city of Bern, Switzerland, primarily handling domestic and short-haul European flights.
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D.
Innsbruck Airport
Innsbruck Airport is a regional international airport in western Austria serving the city of Innsbruck and the surrounding Tyrolean Alps, known for its challenging approach amid mountainous terrain and seasonal tourism traffic.
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E.
Tivat Airport
Tivat Airport is a coastal international airport in Montenegro that serves the popular tourist region around the Bay of Kotor and the Adriatic coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
regional airport ⓘ |
| category | public use airport ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 1707 metres above sea level
ⓘ
approximately 5600 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
non-precision approaches
ⓘ
performance-limited operations due to altitude ⓘ surrounded by high mountains ⓘ |
| hasNavigation | visual flight rules operations ⓘ |
| hasRole |
access point for St. Moritz events
ⓘ
gateway to Engadin ski resorts ⓘ |
| hasSeasonalVariation |
business jet peaks during holiday periods
ⓘ
increased winter traffic ⓘ |
| hasTrafficType |
helicopters
ⓘ
light aircraft ⓘ private jets ⓘ |
| IATA code | SMV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAO code | LSZS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Engadin valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Samedan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Swiss Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | St. Moritz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
challenging alpine approach
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high-altitude operations ⓘ |
| operator | regional authorities of Engadin / Samedan ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
business aviation
ⓘ
general aviation ⓘ seasonal charter flights ⓘ |
| region | Canton of Graubünden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| requires | special pilot experience for safe operation ⓘ |
| runwayOrientation | 03/21 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| safetyConsideration |
density altitude effects on aircraft performance
ⓘ
terrain-induced approach and departure constraints ⓘ |
| serves |
Engadin region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Moritz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesCity |
Samedan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Moritz area ⓘ |
| servesTourism |
luxury tourism
ⓘ
winter sports tourism ⓘ |
| timezone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| timezoneDST | Central European Summer Time ⓘ |
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: Samedan Airport Description of subject: Samedan Airport is a high-altitude regional airport in Switzerland serving the Engadin valley and the resort town of St. Moritz, known for its challenging alpine approach.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.