Douglas Municipal Airport (former name of Charlotte’s main airport)
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Douglas Municipal Airport was the former name of Charlotte’s main airport, honoring longtime Charlotte mayor Ben Elbert Douglas Sr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Douglas Municipal Airport (former name of Charlotte’s main airport) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6025250 — 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: Douglas Municipal Airport (former name of Charlotte’s main airport) Context triple: [Ben Elbert Douglas Sr., commemoratedBy, Douglas Municipal Airport (former name of Charlotte’s main airport)]
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A.
City of Charlotte Aviation Department
The City of Charlotte Aviation Department is the municipal agency responsible for managing and overseeing aviation operations and facilities for the City of Charlotte, including its major commercial airport.
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B.
Raleigh Executive Jetport
Raleigh Executive Jetport is a public general aviation airport serving corporate, private, and charter aircraft in the greater Raleigh–Durham region of North Carolina.
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C.
Triangle North Executive Airport
Triangle North Executive Airport is a public general aviation airport serving Franklin County and the greater Research Triangle region of North Carolina.
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D.
Statesville Regional Airport
Statesville Regional Airport is a public aviation facility serving general and corporate air traffic for the city of Statesville and the surrounding region in North Carolina.
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E.
Charlotte–Monroe Executive Airport
Charlotte–Monroe Executive Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the Monroe and greater Charlotte, North Carolina area, accommodating corporate, private, and recreational air traffic.
- 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: Douglas Municipal Airport (former name of Charlotte’s main airport) Target entity description: Douglas Municipal Airport was the former name of Charlotte’s main airport, honoring longtime Charlotte mayor Ben Elbert Douglas Sr.
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A.
City of Charlotte Aviation Department
The City of Charlotte Aviation Department is the municipal agency responsible for managing and overseeing aviation operations and facilities for the City of Charlotte, including its major commercial airport.
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B.
Raleigh Executive Jetport
Raleigh Executive Jetport is a public general aviation airport serving corporate, private, and charter aircraft in the greater Raleigh–Durham region of North Carolina.
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C.
Triangle North Executive Airport
Triangle North Executive Airport is a public general aviation airport serving Franklin County and the greater Research Triangle region of North Carolina.
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D.
Statesville Regional Airport
Statesville Regional Airport is a public aviation facility serving general and corporate air traffic for the city of Statesville and the surrounding region in North Carolina.
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E.
Charlotte–Monroe Executive Airport
Charlotte–Monroe Executive Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the Monroe and greater Charlotte, North Carolina area, accommodating corporate, private, and recreational air traffic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
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human ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| formerNameOf | Charlotte Douglas International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCityServed | Charlotte, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasElevation |
228 m
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748 ft ⓘ |
| hasFAACode | CLT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFormerName | Charlotte Municipal Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIATACode | CLT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasICAOCode | KCLT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface |
asphalt
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concrete ⓘ |
| honors | Ben Elbert Douglas Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFormerName | Charlotte Douglas International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPredecessorOf | Charlotte Douglas International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Charlotte, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Ben Elbert Douglas Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| operator | City of Charlotte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | City of Charlotte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Charlotte Douglas International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina ⓘ |
| serves |
Charlotte metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
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Charlotte, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Douglas Municipal Airport (former name of Charlotte’s main airport) Description of subject: Douglas Municipal Airport was the former name of Charlotte’s main airport, honoring longtime Charlotte mayor Ben Elbert Douglas Sr.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Ben Elbert Douglas Sr.
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commemoratedBy
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Douglas Municipal Airport (former name of Charlotte’s main airport)
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