NUW
E837177
NUW is the IATA airport code for Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, a major U.S. Navy air base in Washington State.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NUW canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10032480 — 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: NUW Context triple: [Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, IATACode, NUW]
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A.
NUE
NUE is the three-letter IATA airport code for Nuremberg Airport in Nuremberg, Germany.
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B.
NU
NU is the official two-letter Canada Post abbreviation for the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut.
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C.
NU
NU is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the district of Neu-Ulm in Bavaria, Germany.
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D.
NU
NU is a leading Japanese national research university located in Nagoya, known for its strong programs in science, engineering, and the humanities.
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E.
NU
NU is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code for Niue, a small island nation in the South Pacific Ocean.
- 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: NUW Target entity description: NUW is the IATA airport code for Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, a major U.S. Navy air base in Washington State.
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A.
NUE
NUE is the three-letter IATA airport code for Nuremberg Airport in Nuremberg, Germany.
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B.
NU
NU is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the district of Neu-Ulm in Bavaria, Germany.
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C.
NU
NU is the official two-letter Canada Post abbreviation for the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut.
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D.
NU
NU is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code for Niue, a small island nation in the South Pacific Ocean.
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E.
NU
NU is a leading Japanese national research university located in Nagoya, known for its strong programs in science, engineering, and the humanities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
military air base ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Whidbey Island ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasAirportType | military ⓘ |
| hasRole | major U.S. Navy air base ⓘ |
| hasRunwayType | paved ⓘ |
| IATA code for | Naval Air Station Whidbey Island ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington State ⓘ
linked to:
Washington
|
| locatedNear | Oak Harbor, Washington ⓘ |
| operatedBy | United States Navy ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. Navy air base network ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| serves | Naval Air Station Whidbey Island ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| timezone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| usedBy |
U.S. Navy
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Navy
|
| usedFor | military aviation operations ⓘ |
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: NUW Description of subject: NUW is the IATA airport code for Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, a major U.S. Navy air base in Washington State.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.