Finningley Airport
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Finningley Airport, now known as Doncaster Sheffield Airport, was a former Royal Air Force station in South Yorkshire, England that later operated as a civilian international airport.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Finningley Airport canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7357520 — 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: Finningley Airport Context triple: [Doncaster Sheffield Airport, hasAlternativeName, Finningley Airport]
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A.
Elmdon Airport
Elmdon Airport was the original name of what is now Birmingham Airport, a major international airport serving Birmingham and the West Midlands in England.
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B.
Hawarden Airport
Hawarden Airport is a regional airport in Flintshire, Wales, primarily serving general aviation and Airbus manufacturing operations.
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C.
Wainwright Airport
Wainwright Airport is a public airport serving the community of Wainwright in northern Alaska, providing vital air transport links for passengers, cargo, and essential services.
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D.
Cessnock Airport
Cessnock Airport is a regional airfield in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia, primarily serving general aviation, flight training, and tourism activities such as wine region access and scenic flights.
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E.
Cotswold Airport
Cotswold Airport is a former Royal Air Force airfield in Gloucestershire, England, now operating as a civilian airport and aviation business hub.
- 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: Finningley Airport Target entity description: Finningley Airport, now known as Doncaster Sheffield Airport, was a former Royal Air Force station in South Yorkshire, England that later operated as a civilian international airport.
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A.
Elmdon Airport
Elmdon Airport was the original name of what is now Birmingham Airport, a major international airport serving Birmingham and the West Midlands in England.
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B.
Hawarden Airport
Hawarden Airport is a regional airport in Flintshire, Wales, primarily serving general aviation and Airbus manufacturing operations.
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C.
Wainwright Airport
Wainwright Airport is a public airport serving the community of Wainwright in northern Alaska, providing vital air transport links for passengers, cargo, and essential services.
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D.
Cessnock Airport
Cessnock Airport is a regional airfield in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia, primarily serving general aviation, flight training, and tourism activities such as wine region access and scenic flights.
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E.
Cotswold Airport
Cotswold Airport is a former Royal Air Force airfield in Gloucestershire, England, now operating as a civilian airport and aviation business hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
former international airport ⓘ former military air base ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| formerFunction | Royal Air Force station ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Doncaster Sheffield Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIATAcode | DSA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasICAOcode | EGCN NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasName | Finningley Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRunway | asphalt runway suitable for large jet aircraft ⓘ |
| hasType |
RAF station
ⓘ
civilian international airport ⓘ |
| laterKnownAs | Doncaster Sheffield Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Doncaster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
England ⓘ South Yorkshire ⓘ |
| locatedOn | former RAF Finningley site ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| near | village of Finningley ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| region | Yorkshire and the Humber ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves |
Doncaster area
ⓘ
South Yorkshire region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timezone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| transitionedTo | civilian airport ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cargo flights
ⓘ
civil aviation ⓘ international passenger flights ⓘ military aviation ⓘ |
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: Finningley Airport Description of subject: Finningley Airport, now known as Doncaster Sheffield Airport, was a former Royal Air Force station in South Yorkshire, England that later operated as a civilian international airport.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Doncaster Sheffield Airport