Valkenburg air base
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Valkenburg air base is a former Royal Netherlands Navy airfield in South Holland that historically served as a key maritime patrol and military aviation facility.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Naval Air Station Valkenburg | 1 |
| Valkenburg air base canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5247242 — 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: Valkenburg air base Context triple: [Valkenburg, hasTransportInfrastructure, Valkenburg air base]
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A.
Nörvenich Air Base
Nörvenich Air Base is a major German Air Force installation in North Rhine-Westphalia that serves as a key operational base for fighter and tactical aircraft units.
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B.
Wunstorf Air Base
Wunstorf Air Base is a major German Air Force installation in Lower Saxony, primarily known today as the main operating base for the Luftwaffe’s Airbus A400M transport aircraft.
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C.
Kleine-Brogel Air Base
Kleine-Brogel Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield known for hosting fighter aircraft operations and reportedly storing U.S. nuclear weapons under NATO arrangements.
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D.
Schleswig Air Base
Schleswig Air Base is a military airfield in northern Germany that serves as a key operational base for the German Air Force.
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E.
Neuburg Air Base
Neuburg Air Base is a major Luftwaffe installation in Bavaria that serves as one of Germany’s key fighter aircraft bases.
- 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: Valkenburg air base Target entity description: Valkenburg air base is a former Royal Netherlands Navy airfield in South Holland that historically served as a key maritime patrol and military aviation facility.
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A.
Nörvenich Air Base
Nörvenich Air Base is a major German Air Force installation in North Rhine-Westphalia that serves as a key operational base for fighter and tactical aircraft units.
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B.
Wunstorf Air Base
Wunstorf Air Base is a major German Air Force installation in Lower Saxony, primarily known today as the main operating base for the Luftwaffe’s Airbus A400M transport aircraft.
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C.
Kleine-Brogel Air Base
Kleine-Brogel Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield known for hosting fighter aircraft operations and reportedly storing U.S. nuclear weapons under NATO arrangements.
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D.
Schleswig Air Base
Schleswig Air Base is a military airfield in northern Germany that serves as a key operational base for the German Air Force.
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E.
Neuburg Air Base
Neuburg Air Base is a major Luftwaffe installation in Bavaria that serves as one of Germany’s key fighter aircraft bases.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former air base
ⓘ
military air base ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| formerUse |
maritime patrol base
ⓘ
naval air station ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
control tower
ⓘ
hangars ⓘ long paved runway ⓘ taxiways ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
important Royal Netherlands Navy aviation facility
ⓘ
key Dutch maritime patrol base ⓘ |
| IATAcode | LID ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | EHVB ⓘ |
| locatedInOrNear |
Valkenburg, South Holland
ⓘ
linked to:
Valkenburg
|
| locatedNear |
Katwijk
ⓘ
Leiden ⓘ |
| location | South Holland ⓘ |
| nearBodyOfWater |
North Sea
ⓘ
Oude Rijn ⓘ |
| notableAircraftOperated |
Fokker F27
ⓘ
linked to:
Fokker F-27
Fokker F60 ⓘ
linked to:
Fokker 60
Lockheed Neptune ⓘ
linked to:
Lockheed P-2 Neptune
Lockheed P-3 Orion ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Netherlands Navy ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Dutch government
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of the Netherlands
|
| partOf | Dutch military airfield network ⓘ |
| postClosureUse |
event venue
ⓘ
film and television production location ⓘ housing development site ⓘ recreation area ⓘ |
| primaryRole |
North Sea maritime surveillance
ⓘ
anti-submarine warfare support ⓘ |
| region |
Randstad
ⓘ
linked to:
Randstad metropolitan region
|
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| status | closed ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Netherlands Naval Aviation Service
ⓘ
Royal Netherlands Navy ⓘ |
| usedDuring | Cold War ⓘ |
| usedFor |
NATO maritime operations support
ⓘ
linked to:
NATO missions
coastal reconnaissance ⓘ maritime patrol aviation ⓘ military aviation ⓘ search and rescue support ⓘ training flights ⓘ |
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: Valkenburg air base Description of subject: Valkenburg air base is a former Royal Netherlands Navy airfield in South Holland that historically served as a key maritime patrol and military aviation facility.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Valkenburg air base