Raleigh–Durham International Airport
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Raleigh–Durham International Airport is a major commercial airport serving the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, including the cities of Raleigh and Durham.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Raleigh–Durham International Airport canonical | 33 |
| RDU | 8 |
| Raleigh–Durham Army Air Base | 1 |
| Raleigh–Durham International Airport (nearby, partly associated) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8007 — 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: Raleigh–Durham International Airport Context triple: [Durham, North Carolina, hasAirport, Raleigh–Durham International Airport]
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Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is a major commercial airport in Maryland serving the greater Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area as a key hub for domestic and some international flights.
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Durham, North Carolina
Durham, North Carolina is a major city in the Research Triangle region known for Duke University, a strong research and tech economy, and a rich civil rights and tobacco-industry history.
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Washington Dulles International Airport
Washington Dulles International Airport is a major international airport serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, known for its extensive global flight network and iconic Eero Saarinen–designed terminal.
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Duke Regional Hospital
Duke Regional Hospital is a community hospital in Durham, North Carolina, affiliated with the Duke University Health System and providing a range of inpatient and outpatient medical services.
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John F. Kennedy International Airport
John F. Kennedy International Airport is a major international air travel hub located in Queens, serving as one of the primary gateways to New York City and the United States.
- 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: Raleigh–Durham International Airport Target entity description: Raleigh–Durham International Airport is a major commercial airport serving the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, including the cities of Raleigh and Durham.
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Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is a major commercial airport in Maryland serving the greater Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area as a key hub for domestic and some international flights.
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Durham, North Carolina
Durham, North Carolina is a major city in the Research Triangle region known for Duke University, a strong research and tech economy, and a rich civil rights and tobacco-industry history.
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C.
Washington Dulles International Airport
Washington Dulles International Airport is a major international airport serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, known for its extensive global flight network and iconic Eero Saarinen–designed terminal.
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Duke Regional Hospital
Duke Regional Hospital is a community hospital in Durham, North Carolina, affiliated with the Duke University Health System and providing a range of inpatient and outpatient medical services.
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John F. Kennedy International Airport
John F. Kennedy International Airport is a major international air travel hub located in Queens, serving as one of the primary gateways to New York City and the United States.
- 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: Raleigh–Durham International Airport Description of subject: Raleigh–Durham International Airport is a major commercial airport serving the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, including the cities of Raleigh and Durham.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Raleigh–Durham International Airport (nearby, partly associated)
Raleigh–Durham International Airport
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IATAcode
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Raleigh–Durham International Airport
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this entity surface form:
RDU
Raleigh–Durham International Airport
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FAAcode
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Raleigh–Durham International Airport
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this entity surface form:
RDU
Raleigh–Durham International Airport
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previousName
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Raleigh–Durham International Airport
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this entity surface form:
Raleigh–Durham Army Air Base
subject surface form:
Town of Chapel Hill
this entity surface form:
RDU
subject surface form:
Raleigh–Durham International Airport
this entity surface form:
RDU
subject surface form:
Raleigh–Durham International Airport
this entity surface form:
RDU
subject surface form:
Raleigh–Durham International Airport
this entity surface form:
RDU
subject surface form:
Terminal 1 (Raleigh–Durham International Airport)
subject surface form:
Terminal 1 (Raleigh–Durham International Airport)
this entity surface form:
RDU
subject surface form:
Research Triangle Park
Henderson, North Carolina, United States
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hasNearbyAirport
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Raleigh–Durham International Airport
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subject surface form:
Henderson, North Carolina
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GoTriangle
Southern Pines, North Carolina, United States
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nearestMajorAirport
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Raleigh–Durham International Airport
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subject surface form:
Southern Pines, North Carolina
subject surface form:
Terminal 2 (Raleigh–Durham International Airport)
subject surface form:
Terminal 2 (Raleigh–Durham International Airport)
this entity surface form:
RDU