Moffett Field, California
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Moffett Field, California is a historic U.S. naval air station and aerospace hub in the San Francisco Bay Area, best known today as the site of NASA’s Ames Research Center.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moffett Federal Airfield | 17 |
| Moffett Field, California canonical | 13 |
| Moffett Field | 4 |
| Naval Air Station Moffett Field | 3 |
| Moffett | 1 |
| Moffett Field Historic District | 1 |
| Moffett Field historic district | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T25153 — 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: Moffett Field, California Context triple: [Ames Research Center, locatedIn, Moffett Field, California]
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A.
Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base is a major U.S. Air Force installation in Southern California known as a primary site for flight testing, aerospace research, and historic aviation milestones.
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B.
Mojave Air and Space Port
Mojave Air and Space Port is a civilian aerospace test center and spaceflight hub in California known for experimental aircraft development and commercial spaceflight activities.
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C.
China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station
China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station is a major U.S. Navy research, development, testing, and evaluation facility for naval aviation weapons and technology.
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D.
San Francisco International Airport
San Francisco International Airport is a major international air travel hub serving the San Francisco Bay Area and one of the busiest airports in the United States.
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E.
San Diego International Airport
San Diego International Airport is a major commercial airport serving the San Diego metropolitan area and the surrounding Southern California region.
- 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: Moffett Field, California Target entity description: Moffett Field, California is a historic U.S. naval air station and aerospace hub in the San Francisco Bay Area, best known today as the site of NASA’s Ames Research Center.
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A.
Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base is a major U.S. Air Force installation in Southern California known as a primary site for flight testing, aerospace research, and historic aviation milestones.
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B.
Mojave Air and Space Port
Mojave Air and Space Port is a civilian aerospace test center and spaceflight hub in California known for experimental aircraft development and commercial spaceflight activities.
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C.
China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station
China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station is a major U.S. Navy research, development, testing, and evaluation facility for naval aviation weapons and technology.
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D.
San Francisco International Airport
San Francisco International Airport is a major international air travel hub serving the San Francisco Bay Area and one of the busiest airports in the United States.
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E.
San Diego International Airport
San Diego International Airport is a major commercial airport serving the San Diego metropolitan area and the surrounding Southern California region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aerospace facility
ⓘ
airport ⓘ former naval air station ⓘ military airfield ⓘ |
| contains |
Hangar One
ⓘ
Hangar Three ⓘ Hangar Two ⓘ Moffett Field, California self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Moffett Federal Airfield
Ames Research Center ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Ames Research Center
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| currentUse |
federal airfield
ⓘ
research airfield ⓘ technology and aerospace hub ⓘ |
| hasFAAcode | NUQ ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
flight simulation facilities
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supercomputing center ⓘ university-affiliated research facilities ⓘ wind tunnels ⓘ |
| hasIATAcode | NUQ ⓘ |
| hasICAOcode | KNUQ ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
large rigid airship hangars
ⓘ
proximity to Silicon Valley tech companies ⓘ |
| hasNotableStructure |
Hangar One
ⓘ
surface form:
Hangar One airship hangar
|
| hasRunway |
Runway 14L/32R
ⓘ
Runway 14R/32L ⓘ |
| historicalUse |
blimp base
ⓘ
naval air station ⓘ patrol aviation base ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ Santa Clara County ⓘ
surface form:
Santa Clara County, California
near Mountain View, California ⓘ near Sunnyvale, California ⓘ |
| namedAfter | William A. Moffett ⓘ |
| near |
Palo Alto, California
ⓘ
San Jose ⓘ
surface form:
San Jose, California
|
| operator |
NASA
ⓘ
surface form:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States Air Force ⓘ
surface form:
United States Air Force (historical)
United States Army Air Forces ⓘ
surface form:
United States Army Air Forces (historical)
United States Navy ⓘ |
| ownedBy | United States government ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ames Research Center
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Ames Research Center campus
|
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| usedFor |
aeronautics research
ⓘ
airship operations (historical) ⓘ military aviation ⓘ research and development ⓘ space exploration research ⓘ |
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: Moffett Field, California Description of subject: Moffett Field, California is a historic U.S. naval air station and aerospace hub in the San Francisco Bay Area, best known today as the site of NASA’s Ames Research Center.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Pleiades
NASA Astrobiology Institute (historical headquarters)
→
headquartersLocation
→
Moffett Field, California
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subject surface form:
NASA Astrobiology Institute
this entity surface form:
Moffett Federal Airfield
this entity surface form:
Moffett Federal Airfield
this entity surface form:
Moffett Federal Airfield
this entity surface form:
Moffett Federal Airfield
subject surface form:
Hangar One (Moffett Federal Airfield)
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Moffett Federal Airfield
subject surface form:
Moffett Federal Airfield
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Naval Air Station Moffett Field
this entity surface form:
Moffett Field
this entity surface form:
Naval Air Station Moffett Field
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Moffett Federal Airfield
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Moffett Federal Airfield
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Moffett Field
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Moffett Federal Airfield
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Moffett Field historic district
this entity surface form:
Moffett Field
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Naval Air Station Moffett Field
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Moffett Federal Airfield
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Moffett Federal Airfield
this entity surface form:
Moffett
this entity surface form:
Moffett Federal Airfield
this entity surface form:
Moffett Field
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Moffett Federal Airfield
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Moffett Federal Airfield
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Moffett Federal Airfield
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Moffett Field Historic District
this entity surface form:
Moffett Federal Airfield
this entity surface form:
Moffett Federal Airfield