VEBD
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VEBD is the ICAO airport code for Bagdogra Airport, a major airport serving Siliguri and the surrounding region in West Bengal, India.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| VEBD canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7029090 — 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: VEBD Context triple: [Bagdogra Airport, ICAOcode, VEBD]
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A.
VE
VE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Venezuela for international standardization and identification purposes.
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B.
VEN
VEN is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Venezuela for international identification and data standards.
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C.
BV
BV is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to Bouvet Island, a remote uninhabited Norwegian territory in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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D.
VABB
VABB is the ICAO airport code for Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, the primary international airport serving Mumbai, India.
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E.
VAB
VAB is the commonly used abbreviation for NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, the massive structure at Kennedy Space Center where rockets are assembled before launch.
- 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: VEBD Target entity description: VEBD is the ICAO airport code for Bagdogra Airport, a major airport serving Siliguri and the surrounding region in West Bengal, India.
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A.
VE
VE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Venezuela for international standardization and identification purposes.
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B.
VEN
VEN is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Venezuela for international identification and data standards.
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C.
BV
BV is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to Bouvet Island, a remote uninhabited Norwegian territory in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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D.
VABB
VABB is the ICAO airport code for Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, the primary international airport serving Mumbai, India.
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E.
VAB
VAB is the commonly used abbreviation for NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, the massive structure at Kennedy Space Center where rockets are assembled before launch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ICAO airport code
ⓘ
airport ⓘ civil enclave ⓘ runway ⓘ |
| cityServed |
Darjeeling
ⓘ
North Bengal region ⓘ
linked to:
North Bengal
Sikkim ⓘ Siliguri ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| elevation | 412 ft ⓘ |
| hasRole |
civil enclave within an Indian Air Force station
ⓘ
major airport in West Bengal ⓘ |
| hasTerminalType |
domestic terminal
ⓘ
international terminal ⓘ |
| IATAcode | IXB ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | VEBD ⓘ |
| identifies | Bagdogra Airport ⓘ |
| length | approximately 9000 ft ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bagdogra
ⓘ
Darjeeling district ⓘ
linked to:
Darjeeling
India ⓘ Siliguri metropolitan area ⓘ
linked to:
Siliguri
West Bengal ⓘ |
| militaryUse | Indian Air Force ⓘ |
| near |
Himalayan foothills
ⓘ
linked to:
Himalayan foothills region
Siliguri ⓘ Teesta River ⓘ |
| offersServiceType |
domestic flights
ⓘ
international flights ⓘ |
| operator | Airports Authority of India ⓘ |
| regionServed |
North Bengal
ⓘ
Northeast India ⓘ |
| runway | 18/36 ⓘ |
| runwayOrientation | roughly north–south ⓘ |
| servesAs | gateway to Sikkim ⓘ |
| servesTourismTo |
Darjeeling hills
ⓘ
linked to:
Darjeeling Himalayan region
Sikkim Himalayas ⓘ
linked to:
Sikkim Himalaya
|
| state | West Bengal ⓘ |
| surface | asphalt ⓘ |
| timeZone | IST ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cargo transport
ⓘ
military operations ⓘ passenger transport ⓘ |
| UTCoffset | +05:30 ⓘ |
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: VEBD Description of subject: VEBD is the ICAO airport code for Bagdogra Airport, a major airport serving Siliguri and the surrounding region in West Bengal, India.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.