Kirtland Air Force Base
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Kirtland Air Force Base is a major U.S. Air Force installation known for its roles in nuclear weapons research, development, and testing support, as well as hosting key Air Force Materiel Command and Air Force Global Strike Command units.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kirtland Air Force Base canonical | 19 |
| Albuquerque Army Air Base support facilities | 1 |
| Kirtland Air Force Base installation | 1 |
| Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T664691 — 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: Kirtland Air Force Base Context triple: [Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, hasMilitaryBaseNearby, Kirtland Air Force Base]
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A.
Andersen Air Force Base
Andersen Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force installation on Guam that serves as a strategic hub for air operations in the Pacific region.
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B.
Hickam Air Force Base
Hickam Air Force Base is a major U.S. Air Force installation in Hawaii that now forms the Air Force component of Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, supporting Pacific air operations and strategic missions.
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C.
Cannon Air Force Base
Cannon Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in eastern New Mexico known for hosting special operations and tactical aviation units.
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D.
Eielson Air Force Base
Eielson Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force installation in interior Alaska that supports fighter operations, Arctic training, and joint military exercises.
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E.
Tyndall Air Force Base
Tyndall Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force installation known for its air combat training and operations, located near Panama City in the Florida Panhandle.
- 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: Kirtland Air Force Base Target entity description: Kirtland Air Force Base is a major U.S. Air Force installation known for its roles in nuclear weapons research, development, and testing support, as well as hosting key Air Force Materiel Command and Air Force Global Strike Command units.
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A.
Andersen Air Force Base
Andersen Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force installation on Guam that serves as a strategic hub for air operations in the Pacific region.
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B.
Hickam Air Force Base
Hickam Air Force Base is a major U.S. Air Force installation in Hawaii that now forms the Air Force component of Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, supporting Pacific air operations and strategic missions.
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C.
Cannon Air Force Base
Cannon Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in eastern New Mexico known for hosting special operations and tactical aviation units.
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D.
Eielson Air Force Base
Eielson Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force installation in interior Alaska that supports fighter operations, Arctic training, and joint military exercises.
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E.
Tyndall Air Force Base
Tyndall Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force installation known for its air combat training and operations, located near Panama City in the Florida Panhandle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | United States Air Force base ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Albuquerque International Sunport ⓘ |
| controlledBy |
Air Force Global Strike Command
ⓘ
Air Force Materiel Command ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| garrison | 377th Air Base Wing ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Military installations in New Mexico
ⓘ
Nuclear weapons infrastructure of the United States ⓘ United States Air Force installations in New Mexico ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
directed energy research
ⓘ
flight test operations ⓘ nuclear weapons storage support ⓘ search and rescue training ⓘ space technology research ⓘ special operations training ⓘ |
| hosts |
377th Air Base Wing
ⓘ
377th Medical Group ⓘ 377th Security Forces Group ⓘ 58th Special Operations Wing ⓘ Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center ⓘ Directed Energy Directorate ⓘ
surface form:
Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate
Space Vehicles Directorate ⓘ
surface form:
Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate
Civil Air Patrol units ⓘ United States Department of Energy national laboratory system ⓘ
surface form:
Department of Energy facilities
New Mexico National Guard ⓘ
surface form:
New Mexico Air National Guard units
Sandia National Laboratories ⓘ
surface form:
Sandia National Laboratories facilities
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| IATACode |
Albuquerque
ⓘ
surface form:
ABQ
|
| ICAOCode | KIKR ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea |
Albuquerque
ⓘ
surface form:
Albuquerque metropolitan area
|
| location |
Albuquerque
ⓘ
Bernalillo County ⓘ New Mexico ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Roy C. Kirtland ⓘ |
| operator | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf |
Air Force Global Strike Command
ⓘ
Air Force Materiel Command ⓘ |
| primaryMission |
nuclear enterprise support
ⓘ
research and development ⓘ test and evaluation support ⓘ training ⓘ |
| role |
nuclear weapons development support
ⓘ
nuclear weapons research support ⓘ nuclear weapons testing support ⓘ |
| sharesRunwaysWith | Albuquerque International Sunport ⓘ |
| timezone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Kirtland Air Force Base Description of subject: Kirtland Air Force Base is a major U.S. Air Force installation known for its roles in nuclear weapons research, development, and testing support, as well as hosting key Air Force Materiel Command and Air Force Global Strike Command units.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Albuquerque Army Air Base support facilities
this entity surface form:
Kirtland Air Force Base installation
this entity surface form:
Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico