RAF Skellingthorpe
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RAF Skellingthorpe was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, that served as a key Bomber Command airfield during the Second World War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| RAF Skellingthorpe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10398346 — 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: RAF Skellingthorpe Context triple: [No. 50 Squadron RAF, garrison, RAF Skellingthorpe]
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A.
RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey
RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, that served as a key fighter base during the Second World War.
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B.
RAF Acklington
RAF Acklington was a Royal Air Force station in Northumberland, England, that served as a key fighter base, particularly during the Second World War.
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C.
RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor
RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor was a Royal Air Force station in Yorkshire, England, used primarily during the Second World War for bomber operations.
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D.
RAF Coltishall
RAF Coltishall was a Royal Air Force station in Norfolk, England, that served as a key fighter base from World War II through the Cold War and into the late 20th century.
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E.
RAF Waddington
RAF Waddington is a major Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, known primarily as a hub for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance operations and as the home base of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team.
- 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: RAF Skellingthorpe Target entity description: RAF Skellingthorpe was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, that served as a key Bomber Command airfield during the Second World War.
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A.
RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey
RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, that served as a key fighter base during the Second World War.
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B.
RAF Acklington
RAF Acklington was a Royal Air Force station in Northumberland, England, that served as a key fighter base, particularly during the Second World War.
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C.
RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor
RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor was a Royal Air Force station in Yorkshire, England, used primarily during the Second World War for bomber operations.
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D.
RAF Coltishall
RAF Coltishall was a Royal Air Force station in Norfolk, England, that served as a key fighter base from World War II through the Cold War and into the late 20th century.
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E.
RAF Waddington
RAF Waddington is a major Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, known primarily as a hub for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance operations and as the home base of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Royal Air Force station ⓘ |
| associatedWith | RAF Bomber Command campaign over Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | Royal Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| controlledBy | RAF Bomber Command NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| distanceFromLincoln | approximately 3 miles west ⓘ |
| elevation | low-lying airfield ⓘ |
| garrison |
No. 463 Squadron RAAF
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
No. 467 Squadron RAAF NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 50 Squadron RAF NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 61 Squadron RAF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Skellingthorpe Aerodrome
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Skelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Bomber Command airfields
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Royal Air Force stations in Lincolnshire ⓘ World War II airfields in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasIATACode | none ⓘ |
| hasICAOCode | none ⓘ |
| hasRunwayConfiguration | three-runway layout ⓘ |
| heritage | former Bomber Command station ⓘ |
| inServicePeriod | World War II era ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Lincolnshire ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeArea | North Kesteven district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memorialAtSite | Bomber Command memorial NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memorialCommemorates | aircrew of based squadrons ⓘ |
| nearbySettlement | Skellingthorpe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAircraftOperated |
Avro Lancaster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Handley Page Hampden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | high-intensity Lancaster operations ⓘ |
| notableUnitNationality | Royal Australian Air Force squadrons GENERATED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf | Bomber Command NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postWarUse | largely returned to agriculture and light development ⓘ |
| primaryRole | heavy bomber base ⓘ |
| region | East Midlands ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | concrete ⓘ |
| status | disused ⓘ |
| theatreOfOperations | European theatre of World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedDuringConflict | Second World War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Second World War operations
ⓘ
bomber 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: RAF Skellingthorpe Description of subject: RAF Skellingthorpe was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, that served as a key Bomber Command airfield during the Second World War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.