Tripoli International Airport
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Tripoli International Airport is the main international airport serving Libya’s capital, Tripoli, and was historically the country’s busiest aviation hub.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T611500 — 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: Tripoli International Airport Context triple: [Tripoli, hasInternationalAirport, Tripoli International Airport]
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A.
Houari Boumediene Airport
Houari Boumediene Airport is the main international airport serving Algiers and one of the busiest aviation hubs in Algeria.
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B.
Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport
Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport is Lebanon’s main international gateway, serving as the primary airport for Beirut and the country’s largest and busiest aviation hub.
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C.
Borg El Arab Airport
Borg El Arab Airport is the main international airport serving the Alexandria region in northern Egypt, handling both domestic and international flights.
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D.
Rabat–Salé Airport
Rabat–Salé Airport is the main international airport serving Morocco’s capital region, handling both civilian and military air traffic.
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E.
Aden Adde International Airport
Aden Adde International Airport is the main international airport serving Mogadishu and the primary aviation gateway to Somalia.
- 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: Tripoli International Airport Target entity description: Tripoli International Airport is the main international airport serving Libya’s capital, Tripoli, and was historically the country’s busiest aviation hub.
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A.
Houari Boumediene Airport
Houari Boumediene Airport is the main international airport serving Algiers and one of the busiest aviation hubs in Algeria.
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B.
Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport
Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport is Lebanon’s main international gateway, serving as the primary airport for Beirut and the country’s largest and busiest aviation hub.
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C.
Borg El Arab Airport
Borg El Arab Airport is the main international airport serving the Alexandria region in northern Egypt, handling both domestic and international flights.
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D.
Rabat–Salé Airport
Rabat–Salé Airport is the main international airport serving Morocco’s capital region, handling both civilian and military air traffic.
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E.
Aden Adde International Airport
Aden Adde International Airport is the main international airport serving Mogadishu and the primary aviation gateway to Somalia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international airport
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transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| conflictEvent |
damaged in 2011 Libyan Civil War
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site of heavy clashes in 2014 Libyan conflict ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Libya ⓘ |
| distanceFromCityCentre | about 34 kilometres south of central Tripoli ⓘ |
| elevation |
263 feet
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80 metres ⓘ |
| formerName |
Tripoli International Airport
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Tripoli Idris Airport
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| hasFunction |
air cargo operations
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civil aviation ⓘ domestic passenger transport ⓘ international passenger transport ⓘ |
| hasPassengerTerminal |
domestic terminal
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international terminal ⓘ |
| hasPlannedFeature |
expanded runway system
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new passenger terminal complex ⓘ |
| hasRunway | Runway 09/27 ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
busiest airport in Libya
ⓘ
primary hub for Libyan international air traffic ⓘ |
| IATAcode | TIP ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | HLLT ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
North Africa
ⓘ
Tripoli ⓘ Tripoli ⓘ
surface form:
Tripoli District
Tripolitania ⓘ
surface form:
northwestern Libya
|
| locatedNear | Ben Gashir ⓘ |
| nearbyAirport | Mitiga International Airport ⓘ |
| openedAsCivilAirport | 1950s ⓘ |
| plannedBy | Libyan government ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Tripoli
ⓘ
surface form:
Tripoli metropolitan area
western Libya ⓘ |
| replacedByForCivilTraffic | Mitiga International Airport ⓘ |
| runwayLength | 3600 metres ⓘ |
| runwayOrientation | east–west ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servesAs |
gateway to Tripoli metropolitan area
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main international airport for Tripoli ⓘ |
| servesCapital | capital city of Libya ⓘ |
| servesCity | Tripoli ⓘ |
| status |
operations largely suspended after 2014 fighting
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severely damaged during Libyan Civil War ⓘ |
| timezone | UTC+2 ⓘ |
| usedAs | military air base in the past ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Afriqiyah Airways
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Buraq Air ⓘ Libyan Arab Airlines ⓘ |
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: Tripoli International Airport Description of subject: Tripoli International Airport is the main international airport serving Libya’s capital, Tripoli, and was historically the country’s busiest aviation hub.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tripoli International Airport as main operational airport during conflicts
Tripoli International Airport
→
formerName
→
Tripoli International Airport
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Tripoli Idris Airport
this entity surface form:
Tripoli International Airport (regional context)
subject surface form:
Tripoli International Airport
this entity surface form:
Tripoli Int'l Airport