Merpati Nusantara Airlines
E516638
Merpati Nusantara Airlines was an Indonesian state-owned airline that operated domestic and regional flights across the archipelago before ceasing operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Merpati Nusantara Airlines canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5339309 — 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: Merpati Nusantara Airlines Context triple: [Polonia International Airport, formerHubFor, Merpati Nusantara Airlines]
-
A.
Mandala Airlines
Mandala Airlines was an Indonesian airline that operated domestic and regional flights before ceasing operations in the early 2010s.
-
B.
Lion Air
Lion Air is a major Indonesian low-cost airline operating extensive domestic and regional routes across Southeast Asia.
-
C.
Garuda Indonesia
Garuda Indonesia is the national flag carrier airline of Indonesia, operating domestic and international flights across Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and Europe.
-
D.
AirAsia Indonesia
AirAsia Indonesia is a low-cost airline based in Indonesia and a subsidiary of the Malaysia-based AirAsia Group, operating domestic and international flights across Asia.
-
E.
Sriwijaya Air
Sriwijaya Air is an Indonesian airline that operates domestic and regional flights across Southeast Asia.
- 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: Merpati Nusantara Airlines Target entity description: Merpati Nusantara Airlines was an Indonesian state-owned airline that operated domestic and regional flights across the archipelago before ceasing operations.
-
A.
Mandala Airlines
Mandala Airlines was an Indonesian airline that operated domestic and regional flights before ceasing operations in the early 2010s.
-
B.
Lion Air
Lion Air is a major Indonesian low-cost airline operating extensive domestic and regional routes across Southeast Asia.
-
C.
Garuda Indonesia
Garuda Indonesia is the national flag carrier airline of Indonesia, operating domestic and international flights across Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and Europe.
-
D.
AirAsia Indonesia
AirAsia Indonesia is a low-cost airline based in Indonesia and a subsidiary of the Malaysia-based AirAsia Group, operating domestic and international flights across Asia.
-
E.
Sriwijaya Air
Sriwijaya Air is an Indonesian airline that operates domestic and regional flights across Southeast Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | airline ⓘ |
| allianceStatus | not member of major global airline alliances ⓘ |
| businessModel | full-service carrier ⓘ |
| callsign | MERPATI ⓘ |
| ceasedOperations | 2014 ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| fleetType |
Boeing 737
ⓘ
CN-235 ⓘ Fokker 100 ⓘ Fokker 27 ⓘ
linked to:
Fokker F-27
Fokker 28 ⓘ
linked to:
Fokker F28
Xian MA60 ⓘ |
| focusCity |
Denpasar
ⓘ
Makassar ⓘ Surabaya ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Jakarta ⓘ |
| hubAirport |
Juanda International Airport
ⓘ
Ngurah Rai International Airport ⓘ Soekarno–Hatta International Airport ⓘ |
| IATAcode | MZ ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | MNA ⓘ |
| industry | aviation ⓘ |
| legalForm | state-owned limited liability company ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Asia
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Government of Indonesia ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | Indonesian ⓘ |
| regulator |
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (Indonesia)
ⓘ
Indonesian Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises ⓘ |
| role | regional connector within Indonesian archipelago ⓘ |
| routeNetwork |
domestic routes in Indonesia
ⓘ
regional routes in Asia-Pacific ⓘ |
| servedArea | remote regions of Indonesia ⓘ |
| servedDestination |
Balikpapan
ⓘ
Denpasar ⓘ Jakarta ⓘ Jayapura ⓘ Kupang ⓘ Makassar ⓘ Medan ⓘ Surabaya ⓘ regional destinations in Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| serviceType |
cargo flights
ⓘ
scheduled passenger flights ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
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: Merpati Nusantara Airlines Description of subject: Merpati Nusantara Airlines was an Indonesian state-owned airline that operated domestic and regional flights across the archipelago before ceasing operations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.