MED
E650212
MED is the IATA airport code for Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport serving the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MED canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7224859 — 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: MED Context triple: [Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport, iataCode, MED]
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A.
MED
MED is the commonly used abbreviation for the Manhattan Engineer District, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project that directed the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
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B.
Medicina
Medicina is a municipality in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, known for its historic town center and proximity to Bologna.
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C.
Clin
Clin is an entity or organization connected in some capacity to Albert Stark, though its specific nature is not clearly established.
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D.
Medicine
"Medicine" is a song by the band The Meaning of Life, known for its atmospheric indie rock sound and introspective lyrics.
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E.
Medical Library
The Medical Library is a specialized branch of the University of St Andrews Library that provides focused resources and study facilities for medicine and health-related disciplines.
- 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: MED Target entity description: MED is the IATA airport code for Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport serving the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia.
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A.
MED
MED is the commonly used abbreviation for the Manhattan Engineer District, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project that directed the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
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B.
Medicina
Medicina is a municipality in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, known for its historic town center and proximity to Bologna.
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C.
Clin
Clin is an entity or organization connected in some capacity to Albert Stark, though its specific nature is not clearly established.
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D.
Medicine
"Medicine" is a song by the band The Meaning of Life, known for its atmospheric indie rock sound and introspective lyrics.
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E.
Medical Library
The Medical Library is a specialized branch of the University of St Andrews Library that provides focused resources and study facilities for medicine and health-related disciplines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IATA airport code
ⓘ
international airport ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Medina Airport ⓘ |
| cityServed | Medina ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| denotes | Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport ⓘ |
| hasAirportType | public airport ⓘ |
| hasFourLetterCode | OEMA ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
Hajj and Umrah gateway
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civil aviation ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| hasThreeLetterCode | MED ⓘ |
| IATAcode | MED ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | OEMA ⓘ |
| isInCity | Medina ⓘ |
| isInCountry | Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Medina ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Muhammad ⓘ |
| operatesInTimeZone | Arabia Standard Time ⓘ |
| region | Al Madinah Province ⓘ |
| serves | Medina ⓘ |
| servesPilgrimsTravelingTo |
Al-Masjid an-Nabawi
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Medina ⓘ |
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: MED Description of subject: MED is the IATA airport code for Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport serving the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
MED