KIS
E813772
KIS is the IATA airport code for Kisumu International Airport, a key air transport hub serving the city of Kisumu in western Kenya.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KIS canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9671653 — 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: KIS Context triple: [Kisumu International Airport, IATAcode, KIS]
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A.
KISP
KISP is the ICAO airport code for Long Island MacArthur Airport, a public airport serving Long Island in New York.
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B.
KISTI
KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) is a South Korean government-funded research institute that provides national-level science and technology information services, supercomputing resources, and research support infrastructure.
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C.
KIJ
KIJ is the three-letter IATA airport code for Niigata Airport in Niigata, Japan.
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D.
KCS
KCS is the common abbreviation for the Kansas City Scouts, a former National Hockey League team that later became the Colorado Rockies and then the New Jersey Devils.
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E.
KCS
KCS is the reporting mark used by Kansas City Southern Railway, a major freight railroad operating in the central and southern United States and into Mexico.
- 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: KIS Target entity description: KIS is the IATA airport code for Kisumu International Airport, a key air transport hub serving the city of Kisumu in western Kenya.
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A.
KISP
KISP is the ICAO airport code for Long Island MacArthur Airport, a public airport serving Long Island in New York.
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B.
KISTI
KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) is a South Korean government-funded research institute that provides national-level science and technology information services, supercomputing resources, and research support infrastructure.
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C.
KIJ
KIJ is the three-letter IATA airport code for Niigata Airport in Niigata, Japan.
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D.
KCS
KCS is the common abbreviation for the Kansas City Scouts, a former National Hockey League team that later became the Colorado Rockies and then the New Jersey Devils.
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E.
KCS
KCS is the reporting mark used by Kansas City Southern Railway, a major freight railroad operating in the central and southern United States and into Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IATA airport code
ⓘ
international airport ⓘ |
| airportType | public ⓘ |
| cityServed | Kisumu ⓘ |
| country | Kenya ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
1158 m
ⓘ
3799 ft ⓘ |
| hasCustomsFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| hasIATAcode | KIS ⓘ |
| hasICAOcode | HKKI ⓘ |
| hasImmigrationFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid |
instrument approach procedures
ⓘ
runway lighting ⓘ |
| hasPassengerTerminal | main terminal building ⓘ |
| hasRunway | 06/24 ⓘ |
| isInTimeZone | East Africa Time ⓘ |
| isKeyHubFor | western Kenya air transport ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kenya
ⓘ
Kisumu ⓘ Kisumu County ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | western Kenya ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Lake Victoria ⓘ |
| operator | Kenya Airports Authority ⓘ |
| regionServed | western Kenya ⓘ |
| represents | Kisumu International Airport ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
10827 ft
ⓘ
3300 m ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves | Kisumu ⓘ |
| servesAs | regional air transport hub ⓘ |
| servesRegion | western Kenya ⓘ |
| supportsTraffic |
domestic flights
ⓘ
regional international flights ⓘ |
| timeZoneUTCOffset | +3 ⓘ |
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: KIS Description of subject: KIS is the IATA airport code for Kisumu International Airport, a key air transport hub serving the city of Kisumu in western Kenya.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
KIS