RAF St Eval
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RAF St Eval was a Royal Air Force station in Cornwall, England, that served as a key Coastal Command base for maritime patrol and anti-submarine operations, particularly during the Second World War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RAF St Eval canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6487147 — 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: RAF St Eval Context triple: [No. 206 Squadron RAF, garrison, RAF St Eval]
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A.
RAF St Mawgan
RAF St Mawgan is a Royal Air Force station in Cornwall, England, historically significant as a major maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare base.
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B.
RAF Ensign
The RAF Ensign is the official flag of the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force, featuring a sky-blue field with the Union Flag in the canton and the RAF roundel.
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C.
RAF Mount Pleasant
RAF Mount Pleasant is a major Royal Air Force station in the Falkland Islands that serves as the territory’s primary military base and main air gateway to the outside world.
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D.
RAF Hethel
RAF Hethel is a former Royal Air Force station in Norfolk, England, best known for its use by the USAAF during World War II and later redevelopment as the site of the Lotus Cars factory and test track.
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E.
RAF Netheravon
RAF Netheravon is a historic Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, England, long associated with airborne and transport operations and notable as a former headquarters site for No. 38 Group RAF.
- 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: RAF St Eval Target entity description: RAF St Eval was a Royal Air Force station in Cornwall, England, that served as a key Coastal Command base for maritime patrol and anti-submarine operations, particularly during the Second World War.
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A.
RAF St Mawgan
RAF St Mawgan is a Royal Air Force station in Cornwall, England, historically significant as a major maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare base.
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B.
RAF Ensign
The RAF Ensign is the official flag of the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force, featuring a sky-blue field with the Union Flag in the canton and the RAF roundel.
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C.
RAF Mount Pleasant
RAF Mount Pleasant is a major Royal Air Force station in the Falkland Islands that serves as the territory’s primary military base and main air gateway to the outside world.
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D.
RAF Hethel
RAF Hethel is a former Royal Air Force station in Norfolk, England, best known for its use by the USAAF during World War II and later redevelopment as the site of the Lotus Cars factory and test track.
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E.
RAF Netheravon
RAF Netheravon is a historic Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, England, long associated with airborne and transport operations and notable as a former headquarters site for No. 38 Group RAF.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Royal Air Force station ⓘ |
| aircraftOperated |
Avro Lancaster (detachments)
ⓘ
linked to:
Avro Lancaster
Bristol Beaufighter ⓘ Bristol Beaufort ⓘ Consolidated Liberator ⓘ
linked to:
Consolidated B-24 Liberator
Handley Page Hampden ⓘ Lockheed Hudson ⓘ Short Sunderland ⓘ Vickers Wellington ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| currentUse |
partly agricultural land
ⓘ
residential and community use around St Eval village ⓘ |
| garrison |
RAF Bomber Command units
ⓘ
RAF Coastal Command units ⓘ RAF Fighter Command units ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Air Force Fighter Command
United States Army Air Forces units ⓘ
linked to:
United States Army Air Forces bomber units
|
| hasFacility |
bomb stores
ⓘ
concrete runways ⓘ dispersal areas ⓘ domestic site ⓘ technical site ⓘ |
| hasRole |
anti-submarine warfare base
ⓘ
maritime patrol base ⓘ |
| hasRunwayLayout | triangular ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface |
concrete
ⓘ
tarmac ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
Battle of the Atlantic
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Bay of Biscay anti-submarine operations ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cornwall
ⓘ
England ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Celtic Sea ⓘ St Eval, Cornwall ⓘ |
| notableUnit |
No. 172 Squadron RAF
ⓘ
No. 206 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 217 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 220 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 224 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 304 Polish Bomber Squadron ⓘ No. 53 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 58 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 612 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 810 Naval Air Squadron ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf | RAF Coastal Command ⓘ |
| postWarUse |
RAF signals and communications station
ⓘ
air defence radar site ⓘ |
| primaryMission |
anti-submarine patrols over the Atlantic
ⓘ
convoy escort ⓘ maritime reconnaissance ⓘ |
| status | closed as a flying station ⓘ |
| targetOf | Luftwaffe air raids ⓘ |
| usedDuring |
Second World War
ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
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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: RAF St Eval Description of subject: RAF St Eval was a Royal Air Force station in Cornwall, England, that served as a key Coastal Command base for maritime patrol and anti-submarine operations, particularly during the Second World War.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.