Norton Air Force Base
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Norton Air Force Base was a former United States Air Force logistics and maintenance installation in San Bernardino, California, that operated from World War II until its closure in the 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Norton Air Force Base canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9482127 — 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: Norton Air Force Base Context triple: [San Bernardino International Airport, formerName, Norton Air Force Base]
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A.
Luke Air Force Base
Luke Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force training installation primarily focused on preparing fighter pilots, particularly for the F-35 and F-16 aircraft.
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B.
Peterson Air Force Base
Peterson Air Force Base was a major U.S. Air Force installation in Colorado that served as a key hub for space operations and air defense before being redesignated as Peterson Space Force Base.
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C.
Otis Air Force Base
Otis Air Force Base is a former U.S. military installation on Cape Cod in Massachusetts that served as a key Air Force and Air National Guard facility during much of the 20th century.
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D.
Andrews Air Force Base
Andrews Air Force Base is a major U.S. military installation in Maryland best known as the home base for Air Force One and other aircraft supporting the President and senior government officials.
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E.
Kindley Air Force Base
Kindley Air Force Base was a former United States military airfield in Bermuda that later became Bermuda International Airport.
- 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: Norton Air Force Base Target entity description: Norton Air Force Base was a former United States Air Force logistics and maintenance installation in San Bernardino, California, that operated from World War II until its closure in the 1990s.
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A.
Luke Air Force Base
Luke Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force training installation primarily focused on preparing fighter pilots, particularly for the F-35 and F-16 aircraft.
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B.
Peterson Air Force Base
Peterson Air Force Base was a major U.S. Air Force installation in Colorado that served as a key hub for space operations and air defense before being redesignated as Peterson Space Force Base.
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C.
Otis Air Force Base
Otis Air Force Base is a former U.S. military installation on Cape Cod in Massachusetts that served as a key Air Force and Air National Guard facility during much of the 20th century.
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D.
Andrews Air Force Base
Andrews Air Force Base is a major U.S. military installation in Maryland best known as the home base for Air Force One and other aircraft supporting the President and senior government officials.
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E.
Kindley Air Force Base
Kindley Air Force Base was a former United States military airfield in Bermuda that later became Bermuda International Airport.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Air Force base
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military installation ⓘ |
| cityServed | San Bernardino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closureDate | 31 March 1994 ⓘ |
| conflict |
Cold War
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Korean War ⓘ Vietnam War ⓘ World War II ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 1159 feet ⓘ |
| endDate | 1994 ⓘ |
| garrison |
445th Military Airlift Wing
NERFINISHED
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63d Military Airlift Wing NERFINISHED ⓘ Air Force Logistics Command units ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
aircraft maintenance depots
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hangars ⓘ housing areas ⓘ logistics warehouses ⓘ runways ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | former military installation ⓘ |
| IATACode | SBD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | KSBD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | World War II era ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
California
NERFINISHED
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San Bernardino County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | San Bernardino, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Leland Francis Norton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| ownedBy | United States Department of Defense NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Air Force Logistics Command
NERFINISHED
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Air Materiel Command NERFINISHED ⓘ Air Mobility Command NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postClosureUse |
San Bernardino International Airport
NERFINISHED
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cargo operations ⓘ commercial aviation ⓘ industrial park ⓘ |
| previousName | San Bernardino Army Air Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForClosure | Base Realignment and Closure process NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | Inland Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runwayLength | approximately 10000 feet ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | concrete ⓘ |
| startDate | 1942 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
aircraft maintenance
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airlift operations ⓘ depot-level maintenance ⓘ logistics ⓘ |
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: Norton Air Force Base Description of subject: Norton Air Force Base was a former United States Air Force logistics and maintenance installation in San Bernardino, California, that operated from World War II until its closure in the 1990s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.