Sawyer International Airport
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Sawyer International Airport is a public airport serving commercial and general aviation needs for the Marquette region in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sawyer International Airport canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T252540 — 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: Sawyer International Airport Context triple: [Marquette, Michigan, hasAirport, Sawyer International Airport]
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A.
Logan International Airport
Logan International Airport is a major U.S. air transportation hub serving the Greater Boston area and New England region.
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B.
Cyril E. King Airport
Cyril E. King Airport is the main commercial airport serving St. Thomas and the surrounding U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.
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C.
L.F. Wade International Airport
L.F. Wade International Airport is the primary international gateway to Bermuda, serving as the island territory’s main commercial airport for passenger and cargo flights.
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D.
Friendship International Airport
Friendship International Airport was the original name of the major airport now known as Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, serving the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.
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E.
Midway International Airport
Midway International Airport is a major commercial airport on Chicago’s southwest side that serves as a key hub for domestic flights in the United States.
- 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: Sawyer International Airport Target entity description: Sawyer International Airport is a public airport serving commercial and general aviation needs for the Marquette region in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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A.
Logan International Airport
Logan International Airport is a major U.S. air transportation hub serving the Greater Boston area and New England region.
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B.
Cyril E. King Airport
Cyril E. King Airport is the main commercial airport serving St. Thomas and the surrounding U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.
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C.
L.F. Wade International Airport
L.F. Wade International Airport is the primary international gateway to Bermuda, serving as the island territory’s main commercial airport for passenger and cargo flights.
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D.
Friendship International Airport
Friendship International Airport was the original name of the major airport now known as Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, serving the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.
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E.
Midway International Airport
Midway International Airport is a major commercial airport on Chicago’s southwest side that serves as a key hub for domestic flights in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ |
| airportType | commercial service airport ⓘ |
| builtOn | former K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base site ⓘ |
| category | transport infrastructure in Michigan ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distanceFromCityCenter | about 27 kilometers south of Marquette ⓘ |
| distanceFromCityCenterMiles | about 17 ⓘ |
| elevationFeet | 1221 ⓘ |
| FAAcode | SAW ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
air cargo facilities
ⓘ
air traffic control tower ⓘ aircraft parking apron ⓘ general aviation services ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid | instrument landing system ⓘ |
| hasTerminal | passenger terminal ⓘ |
| hasUse | military training (limited, nearby airspace) ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.sawyerairport.com/ ⓘ |
| IATAcode | MQT ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | KSAW ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Marquette County, Michigan
ⓘ
Upper Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ |
| openedAsCivilAirport | 1999 ⓘ |
| owner |
Marquette County, Michigan
ⓘ
surface form:
Marquette County
|
| previousUse | K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base ⓘ |
| regionServed | Upper Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ |
| runway | 01/19 ⓘ |
| runwayLengthFeet | 12366 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves | Marquette, Michigan ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Northern Michigan
ⓘ
surface form:
Marquette region
central Upper Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan
|
| timeZone | America/Detroit ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Daylight Time
|
| timeZoneStandard |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Standard Time
|
| usedFor |
air cargo
ⓘ
commercial aviation ⓘ general 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: Sawyer International Airport Description of subject: Sawyer International Airport is a public airport serving commercial and general aviation needs for the Marquette region in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Marquette, Michigan