Baikonur airport
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Baikonur airport is the main airfield serving the Baikonur Cosmodrome area in Kazakhstan, supporting both civilian flights and space-related operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Baikonur airport canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10036641 — 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: Baikonur airport Context triple: [Baikonur, transportInfrastructure, Baikonur airport]
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A.
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Baikonur Cosmodrome is the historic Soviet and now Russian-operated spaceport in Kazakhstan from which the first human spaceflight, carrying Yuri Gagarin, was launched.
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B.
Baikonur
Baikonur is a town in Kazakhstan historically associated with the Soviet and Russian space programs, giving its name to the nearby Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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C.
Mendeleyevo Airport
Mendeleyevo Airport is a regional airport serving the town of Yuzhno-Kurilsk in Russia’s Kuril Islands, providing vital air connectivity to this remote area.
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D.
Tolmachevo Airport
Tolmachevo Airport is a major international airport in Novosibirsk, Russia, serving as a key air transport hub for Siberia and a primary base for several Russian airlines.
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E.
Koltsovo International Airport
Koltsovo International Airport is a major international airport in Russia serving the city of Yekaterinburg and the Ural region as an important passenger and cargo hub.
- 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: Baikonur airport Target entity description: Baikonur airport is the main airfield serving the Baikonur Cosmodrome area in Kazakhstan, supporting both civilian flights and space-related operations.
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A.
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Baikonur Cosmodrome is the historic Soviet and now Russian-operated spaceport in Kazakhstan from which the first human spaceflight, carrying Yuri Gagarin, was launched.
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B.
Baikonur
Baikonur is a town in Kazakhstan historically associated with the Soviet and Russian space programs, giving its name to the nearby Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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C.
Mendeleyevo Airport
Mendeleyevo Airport is a regional airport serving the town of Yuzhno-Kurilsk in Russia’s Kuril Islands, providing vital air connectivity to this remote area.
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D.
Tolmachevo Airport
Tolmachevo Airport is a major international airport in Novosibirsk, Russia, serving as a key air transport hub for Siberia and a primary base for several Russian airlines.
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E.
Koltsovo International Airport
Koltsovo International Airport is a major international airport in Russia serving the city of Yekaterinburg and the Ural region as an important passenger and cargo hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
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civilian airport ⓘ military-support airfield ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Baikonur Cosmodrome launch operations
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Roscosmos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kazakhstan ⓘ |
| hasIATAcode | BXY NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasICAOcode | UAOL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRunway | single main runway ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Kyzylorda Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Baikonur Cosmodrome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | leasehold territory administered by Russia ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Baikonur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyFacility | Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
regional passenger transport
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support for Baikonur Cosmodrome ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | concrete ⓘ |
| serves |
Baikonur Cosmodrome
NERFINISHED
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Baikonur city NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesProgram |
International crewed space missions
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Russian space program ⓘ |
| supports |
arrival of international space crews
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departure of international space crews ⓘ logistics for launch campaigns ⓘ |
| timezone | UTC+5 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cargo transport
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civilian flights ⓘ space-related operations ⓘ transport of cosmonauts ⓘ transport of space personnel ⓘ |
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: Baikonur airport Description of subject: Baikonur airport is the main airfield serving the Baikonur Cosmodrome area in Kazakhstan, supporting both civilian flights and space-related operations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.