Squires Gate Airport
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Squires Gate Airport is the former name of Blackpool Airport, a regional airport serving the seaside resort town of Blackpool in Lancashire, England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Squires Gate Airport canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8419985 — 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: Squires Gate Airport Context triple: [Blackpool Airport, hasFormerName, Squires Gate Airport]
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A.
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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B.
Rowriah Airport
Rowriah Airport is a domestic airport serving the city of Jorhat in the Indian state of Assam.
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C.
St Mary’s Airport
St Mary’s Airport is the main air gateway serving the Isles of Scilly, providing regional flights that connect the islands with mainland England.
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D.
Croydon Airport
Croydon Airport was one of the United Kingdom’s earliest major international airports and a key hub for civil aviation between the World Wars.
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E.
Argyle International Airport
Argyle International Airport is the main international gateway to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, serving the capital city of Kingstown and the surrounding islands.
- 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: Squires Gate Airport Target entity description: Squires Gate Airport is the former name of Blackpool Airport, a regional airport serving the seaside resort town of Blackpool in Lancashire, England.
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A.
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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B.
Rowriah Airport
Rowriah Airport is a domestic airport serving the city of Jorhat in the Indian state of Assam.
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C.
St Mary’s Airport
St Mary’s Airport is the main air gateway serving the Isles of Scilly, providing regional flights that connect the islands with mainland England.
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D.
Croydon Airport
Croydon Airport was one of the United Kingdom’s earliest major international airports and a key hub for civil aviation between the World Wars.
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E.
Argyle International Airport
Argyle International Airport is the main international gateway to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, serving the capital city of Kingstown and the surrounding islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
former airport name ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| daylightSavingUTCoffset | +01:00 ⓘ |
| elevationFeet | 34 ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Blackpool Airport ⓘ |
| hasRunway | Runway 10/28 ⓘ |
| hasTerminal | passenger terminal ⓘ |
| hasUse |
flight training
ⓘ
general aviation ⓘ offshore helicopter operations ⓘ public transport ⓘ |
| IATAcode | BLK ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | EGNH ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Blackpool
ⓘ
England ⓘ Lancashire ⓘ North West England ⓘ |
| locatedInDistrict |
Fylde
ⓘ
linked to:
Fylde district
|
| locatedNear | Squires Gate railway station ⓘ |
| nearbyWaterBody | Irish Sea ⓘ |
| operator |
Blackpool Airport Operations Ltd
ⓘ
linked to:
Blackpool Airport
|
| runwayLengthMetres | 1869 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servedRegion |
Blackpool urban area
ⓘ
linked to:
Blackpool
Lancashire ⓘ |
| serves |
Blackpool
ⓘ
Fylde Coast ⓘ |
| standardTimeUTCoffset | +00:00 ⓘ |
| timezone | Europe/London ⓘ |
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: Squires Gate Airport Description of subject: Squires Gate Airport is the former name of Blackpool Airport, a regional airport serving the seaside resort town of Blackpool in Lancashire, England.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.