World Airways
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World Airways was a U.S.-based charter and scheduled airline known for military transport, long-haul international services, and operating widebody aircraft such as the McDonnell Douglas DC-10.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| World Airways canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8858689 — 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: World Airways Context triple: [McDonnell Douglas DC-10, notableOperator, World Airways]
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A.
Union Airways
Union Airways was an early South African airline that later became part of the national carrier, South African Airways.
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B.
Eastern Airways
Eastern Airways is a British regional airline operating scheduled passenger services across the United Kingdom and parts of Europe.
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C.
Kel Air
Kel Air is a Tuareg confederation inhabiting the Aïr Mountains region of northern Niger, known for its nomadic pastoralist traditions and historical role in Saharan trade.
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D.
Atlantic Airways
Atlantic Airways is the national airline of the Faroe Islands, operating domestic helicopter services and international flights primarily within Europe.
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E.
Seaborne Airlines
Seaborne Airlines is a regional carrier based in the Caribbean, primarily operating inter-island flights across destinations such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin 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: World Airways Target entity description: World Airways was a U.S.-based charter and scheduled airline known for military transport, long-haul international services, and operating widebody aircraft such as the McDonnell Douglas DC-10.
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A.
Union Airways
Union Airways was an early South African airline that later became part of the national carrier, South African Airways.
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B.
Eastern Airways
Eastern Airways is a British regional airline operating scheduled passenger services across the United Kingdom and parts of Europe.
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C.
Kel Air
Kel Air is a Tuareg confederation inhabiting the Aïr Mountains region of northern Niger, known for its nomadic pastoralist traditions and historical role in Saharan trade.
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D.
Atlantic Airways
Atlantic Airways is the national airline of the Faroe Islands, operating domestic helicopter services and international flights primarily within Europe.
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E.
Seaborne Airlines
Seaborne Airlines is a regional carrier based in the Caribbean, primarily operating inter-island flights across destinations such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airline
ⓘ
charter airline ⓘ scheduled airline ⓘ |
| callsign | WORLD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ceasedOperations | 2014-03-27 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dissolved | 2014 ⓘ |
| enteredBankruptcy |
2012
ⓘ
2014 ⓘ |
| fleetSizeAtEnd | about 12 aircraft ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Edward Daly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Oakland, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peachtree City, Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IATAcode | WO NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | WOA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1948 ⓘ |
| mainActivity |
charter flights
ⓘ
long-haul international services ⓘ military transport ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Vietnam War evacuation flights
ⓘ
widebody charter operations ⓘ |
| operatedAircraftType |
Boeing 707
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Boeing 720 NERFINISHED ⓘ Boeing 727 NERFINISHED ⓘ Boeing 737 NERFINISHED ⓘ Boeing 747 NERFINISHED ⓘ Boeing 757 NERFINISHED ⓘ Boeing 767 NERFINISHED ⓘ Douglas DC-4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Douglas DC-6 NERFINISHED ⓘ Douglas DC-8 NERFINISHED ⓘ Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation NERFINISHED ⓘ Lockheed L-749 Constellation NERFINISHED ⓘ McDonnell Douglas DC-10 NERFINISHED ⓘ McDonnell Douglas MD-11 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedHub |
Baltimore/Washington International Airport
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Oakland International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedRegion |
Africa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ Middle East NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedServiceType |
ACMI wet lease
ⓘ
cargo charter ⓘ passenger charter ⓘ scheduled passenger service ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Global Aviation Holdings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedClient | United States Department of Defense NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: World Airways Description of subject: World Airways was a U.S.-based charter and scheduled airline known for military transport, long-haul international services, and operating widebody aircraft such as the McDonnell Douglas DC-10.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.