YXD
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YXD is the former IATA airport code for Edmonton City Centre Airport, a now-closed downtown airport that once served as a key regional and commuter hub in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| YXD canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5835875 — 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: YXD Context triple: [Edmonton City Centre Airport, IATAcode, YXD]
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A.
YX
YX is the IATA airline designator used by Republic Airways, a major U.S. regional airline operating flights on behalf of larger carriers.
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B.
YXU
YXU is the IATA airport code for London International Airport serving London, Ontario, Canada.
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C.
XU
XU was a clandestine Norwegian intelligence organization that gathered and transmitted vital information to the Allies during the German occupation in World War II.
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D.
YHZ
YHZ is the IATA airport code for Halifax Stanfield International Airport, the primary commercial airport serving Halifax and much of Atlantic Canada.
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E.
GYD
GYD is the official currency code for the Guyanese dollar, the national currency of Guyana.
- 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: YXD Target entity description: YXD is the former IATA airport code for Edmonton City Centre Airport, a now-closed downtown airport that once served as a key regional and commuter hub in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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A.
YX
YX is the IATA airline designator used by Republic Airways, a major U.S. regional airline operating flights on behalf of larger carriers.
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B.
YXU
YXU is the IATA airport code for London International Airport serving London, Ontario, Canada.
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C.
XU
XU was a clandestine Norwegian intelligence organization that gathered and transmitted vital information to the Allies during the German occupation in World War II.
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D.
YHZ
YHZ is the IATA airport code for Halifax Stanfield International Airport, the primary commercial airport serving Halifax and much of Atlantic Canada.
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E.
GYD
GYD is the official currency code for the Guyanese dollar, the national currency of Guyana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IATA airport code
ⓘ
airport ⓘ urban redevelopment project ⓘ |
| airportType | public ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Blatchford Field
ⓘ
Edmonton Municipal Airport ⓘ
linked to:
Edmonton City Centre Airport
|
| cityServed | Edmonton ⓘ |
| closed | 2013 ⓘ |
| closedToScheduledTraffic | 2010 ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| elevationFeet | 2200 ⓘ |
| elevationMetres | 671 ⓘ |
| formerHubFor |
Air Canada Jazz
ⓘ
linked to:
Air Canada Jazz brand
Canadian North ⓘ Northwestern Air ⓘ |
| formerIATACode | YXD ⓘ |
| historicalUse |
Royal Canadian Air Force training
ⓘ
World War II air transport operations ⓘ |
| icaoCode | CYXD ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alberta
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Edmonton ⓘ |
| locatedNear | downtown Edmonton ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Kenneth Alexander Blatchford ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the first licensed airfields in Canada ⓘ |
| opened | 1927 ⓘ |
| operator |
City of Edmonton
ⓘ
linked to:
Edmonton
|
| primaryUse |
charter flights
ⓘ
general aviation ⓘ medevac flights ⓘ regional airline traffic ⓘ |
| redevelopmentPlan | Blatchford community ⓘ |
| refersTo | Edmonton City Centre Airport ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Northern Alberta
ⓘ
linked to:
northern Alberta
Northwestern Canada ⓘ
linked to:
northwestern Canada
|
| role |
commuter hub
ⓘ
regional hub ⓘ |
| runway |
12/30
ⓘ
16/34 ⓘ |
| status |
closed
ⓘ
retired code ⓘ |
| surface | asphalt ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter flights
ⓘ
regional flights ⓘ |
| wmoCode | 71123 ⓘ |
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: YXD Description of subject: YXD is the former IATA airport code for Edmonton City Centre Airport, a now-closed downtown airport that once served as a key regional and commuter hub in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.