WVB
E640931
WVB is the IATA airport code for Walvis Bay International Airport, a key aviation hub serving the coastal town of Walvis Bay in Namibia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WVB canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7078250 — 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: WVB Context triple: [Walvis Bay International Airport, IATAcode, WVB]
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A.
BVB
BVB is the public transport company that operates much of the tram and bus network in Basel, Switzerland.
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B.
Wichita Wings
The Wichita Wings were a professional indoor soccer team based in Wichita, Kansas, that competed primarily in the Major Indoor Soccer League.
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C.
WCC
WCC is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA Division I primarily comprising private universities along the West Coast of the United States.
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D.
WCC
WCC is the commonly used abbreviation for the World Council of Churches, a major global ecumenical organization that fosters unity and cooperation among Christian denominations worldwide.
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E.
WCC
WCC is a public community college in Valhalla, New York, offering a wide range of associate degree and certificate programs as part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system.
- 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: WVB Target entity description: WVB is the IATA airport code for Walvis Bay International Airport, a key aviation hub serving the coastal town of Walvis Bay in Namibia.
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A.
BVB
BVB is the public transport company that operates much of the tram and bus network in Basel, Switzerland.
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B.
Wichita Wings
The Wichita Wings were a professional indoor soccer team based in Wichita, Kansas, that competed primarily in the Major Indoor Soccer League.
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C.
WCC
WCC is the commonly used abbreviation for the World Council of Churches, a major global ecumenical organization that fosters unity and cooperation among Christian denominations worldwide.
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D.
WCC
WCC is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA Division I primarily comprising private universities along the West Coast of the United States.
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E.
WCC
WCC is a public community college in Valhalla, New York, offering a wide range of associate degree and certificate programs as part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IATA airport code
ⓘ
airport ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Namibia ⓘ |
| countryCode | NA ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
299 feet
ⓘ
91 meters ⓘ |
| hasCargoServices | true ⓘ |
| hasDomesticFlights | true ⓘ |
| hasInternationalFlights | true ⓘ |
| hasPassengerServices | true ⓘ |
| IATAcode | WVB ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | FYWB ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Walvis Bay ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Namibia ⓘ |
| nearbyBodyOfWater | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Walvis Bay ⓘ |
| refersTo | Walvis Bay International Airport ⓘ |
| region | Erongo Region ⓘ |
| runwayCount | 1 ⓘ |
| runwayDesignation | 09/27 ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
11483 feet
ⓘ
3500 meters ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves | Walvis Bay ⓘ |
| servesAs | key aviation hub for coastal Namibia ⓘ |
| servesTourismTo |
Namib Desert
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Skeleton Coast ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Africa/Windhoek
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linked to:
Windhoek
|
| timeZoneUTCoffset | +02:00 ⓘ |
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: WVB Description of subject: WVB is the IATA airport code for Walvis Bay International Airport, a key aviation hub serving the coastal town of Walvis Bay in Namibia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
FYWB