HKY

E612529

IATA airport code

HKY is the three-letter IATA airport code for Hickory Regional Airport in Hickory, North Carolina, USA.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
HKY canonical	4

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6691808 — 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: HKY
Context triple: [Hickory Regional Airport, IATAcode, HKY]

A. HKJK
HKJK is the ICAO airport code for Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the main international gateway serving Nairobi, Kenya.
B. KLHK
KLHK is the Indonesian government ministry responsible for environmental protection, natural resource management, and forestry policy.
C. MHK
MHK is the post-nominal abbreviation used by elected members of the House of Keys, the lower branch of the Isle of Man's parliament.
D. HBY
HBY is the National Rail station code used to identify Holloway Road Underground station in London’s public transport system.
E. HYS
HYS is the National Rail station code for Hayes railway station in the London Borough of Bromley.
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: HKY
Target entity description: HKY is the three-letter IATA airport code for Hickory Regional Airport in Hickory, North Carolina, USA.

A. HKJK
HKJK is the ICAO airport code for Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the main international gateway serving Nairobi, Kenya.
B. KLHK
KLHK is the Indonesian government ministry responsible for environmental protection, natural resource management, and forestry policy.
C. MHK
MHK is the post-nominal abbreviation used by elected members of the House of Keys, the lower branch of the Isle of Man's parliament.
D. HBY
HBY is the National Rail station code used to identify Holloway Road Underground station in London’s public transport system.
E. HYS
HYS is the National Rail station code for Hayes railway station in the London Borough of Bromley.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (25)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	IATA airport code ⓘ
airportType	regional airport ⓘ
appliesToCity	Hickory ⓘ linked to: Hickory, North Carolina
appliesToCountry	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
appliesToState	North Carolina ⓘ
associatedAirportName	Hickory Regional Airport ⓘ
codeStandard	IATA ⓘ linked to: International Air Transport Association
countryCodeContext	US ⓘ
governingBody	International Air Transport Association ⓘ
hasAssociatedICAOCode	KHKY ⓘ
hasCodeLength	3 ⓘ
isThreeLetterCode	true ⓘ
isUniqueWithin	IATA airport code system ⓘ
locatedIn	Hickory, North Carolina, United States ⓘ linked to: Hickory, North Carolina
mapsTo	Federal Aviation Administration location identifier HKY ⓘ
primaryFunction	identify Hickory Regional Airport in commercial aviation contexts ⓘ
represents	Hickory Regional Airport ⓘ
servesRegion	Hickory metropolitan area ⓘ linked to: Hickory, North Carolina
usedBy	airlines ⓘ global distribution systems ⓘ travel agencies ⓘ
usedFor	air travel identification ⓘ
usedIn	airline timetables ⓘ baggage tags ⓘ reservation systems ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hickory Regional Airport → IATAcode → HKY ⓘ

Hickory Regional Airport → FAAcode → HKY ⓘ

Hickory Regional Airport → hasIATACode → HKY ⓘ

subject linked to: KHKY

Hickory Regional Airport → hasFAAIdentifier → HKY ⓘ