NIC

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IATA airport code airport

NIC is the IATA airport code for Nicosia International Airport, the now-defunct main airport of Cyprus located near the capital city of Nicosia.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
NIC canonical	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6501388 — 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: NIC
Context triple: [Nicosia International Airport, IATAcode, NIC]

A. NIC
NIC is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Nicaragua.
B. NIC
NIC is an abbreviation commonly used to refer to North Infirmary Command, a medical or correctional facility unit.
C. NIC
NIC is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Kingdom’s National Infrastructure Commission, an independent body that advises the government on long-term infrastructure strategy and investment.
D. NIC.TM
NIC.TM is the official domain registry responsible for managing and administering Turkmenistan’s country-code top-level domain, .tm.
E. NET
NET is the stock ticker symbol for Cloudflare, Inc., a company that provides cloud-based web infrastructure and security services.
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: NIC
Target entity description: NIC is the IATA airport code for Nicosia International Airport, the now-defunct main airport of Cyprus located near the capital city of Nicosia.

A. NIC
NIC is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Nicaragua.
B. NIC
NIC is an abbreviation commonly used to refer to North Infirmary Command, a medical or correctional facility unit.
C. NIC
NIC is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Kingdom’s National Infrastructure Commission, an independent body that advises the government on long-term infrastructure strategy and investment.
D. NIC.TM
NIC.TM is the official domain registry responsible for managing and administering Turkmenistan’s country-code top-level domain, .tm.
E. NET
NET is the stock ticker symbol for Cloudflare, Inc., a company that provides cloud-based web infrastructure and security services.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (30)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	IATA airport code ⓘ airport ⓘ
cityServed	Nicosia ⓘ
closedForCommercialTraffic	1974 ⓘ
country	Cyprus ⓘ
currentCondition	abandoned ⓘ
elevation	722 ft ⓘ
IATA code	NIC ⓘ
ICAO code	LCNC ⓘ
locatedIn	UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus ⓘ linked to: Cyprus buffer zone
locatedNear	Nicosia ⓘ
locatedOn	island of Cyprus ⓘ linked to: Cyprus
nearbyLocality	Lakatamia ⓘ
opened	1939 ⓘ
operatorBeforeClosure	Cyprus Airways ⓘ
postClosureUse	UN-controlled facility ⓘ occasional UN helicopter operations ⓘ
reasonForClosure	Turkish invasion of Cyprus ⓘ linked to: Turkish military intervention in Cyprus
refersTo	Nicosia International Airport ⓘ
region	Nicosia District ⓘ
runwayCount	2 ⓘ
runwaySurface	asphalt ⓘ
servedAs	hub for Cyprus Airways ⓘ main airport of Cyprus ⓘ
status	defunct ⓘ
terminalBuildingStyle	modernist architecture ⓘ
usedAs	civil airport ⓘ military air base ⓘ
usedBy	Royal Air Force ⓘ
usedDuring	Second World War ⓘ linked to: World War II