Mahikeng Airport
E918601
Mahikeng Airport is a regional public airport serving the city of Mahikeng in South Africa’s North West Province, handling domestic flights and general aviation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mahikeng Airport canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11263670 — 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: Mahikeng Airport Context triple: [Mahikeng, hasAirport, Mahikeng Airport]
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A.
Palana Airport
Palana Airport is a regional airport serving the settlement of Palana in Russia’s Kamchatka Krai, providing vital air connectivity to this remote northern area.
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B.
Umbu Mehang Kunda Airport
Umbu Mehang Kunda Airport is a regional airport serving the island of Sumba in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, providing domestic connections to major Indonesian cities.
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C.
Ulundi Airport
Ulundi Airport is a regional airport serving the town of Ulundi in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, providing air connectivity for passengers and local government activities.
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D.
Vunisea Airport
Vunisea Airport is a small public airport serving the island of Kadavu in Fiji, providing domestic connections primarily to and from the capital, Suva.
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E.
Matsapha Airport
Matsapha Airport is a small public airport in Eswatini that historically served as the country’s main international gateway before most commercial flights moved to King Mswati III 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: Mahikeng Airport Target entity description: Mahikeng Airport is a regional public airport serving the city of Mahikeng in South Africa’s North West Province, handling domestic flights and general aviation.
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A.
Palana Airport
Palana Airport is a regional airport serving the settlement of Palana in Russia’s Kamchatka Krai, providing vital air connectivity to this remote northern area.
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B.
Umbu Mehang Kunda Airport
Umbu Mehang Kunda Airport is a regional airport serving the island of Sumba in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, providing domestic connections to major Indonesian cities.
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C.
Ulundi Airport
Ulundi Airport is a regional airport serving the town of Ulundi in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, providing air connectivity for passengers and local government activities.
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D.
Vunisea Airport
Vunisea Airport is a small public airport serving the island of Kadavu in Fiji, providing domestic connections primarily to and from the capital, Suva.
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E.
Matsapha Airport
Matsapha Airport is a small public airport in Eswatini that historically served as the country’s main international gateway before most commercial flights moved to King Mswati III International Airport.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ regional airport ⓘ |
| cityServed | Mahikeng ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| elevation |
1280 m
ⓘ
4199 ft ⓘ |
| hasTerminalType | passenger terminal ⓘ |
| IATA code | MBD ⓘ |
| ICAO code | FAMM ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mahikeng
ⓘ
North West Province ⓘ South Africa ⓘ |
| operatorType | public ⓘ |
| runway | 04/22 ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
2450 m
ⓘ
8038 ft ⓘ |
| runwayOrientation | 040°/220° ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves | Mahikeng ⓘ |
| servesAs | regional transport hub for Mahikeng area ⓘ |
| servesRegion | North West Province ⓘ |
| timeZone |
South African Standard Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Africa Time
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| usedFor |
domestic flights
ⓘ
general aviation ⓘ |
| UTC offset | +02:00 ⓘ |
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: Mahikeng Airport Description of subject: Mahikeng Airport is a regional public airport serving the city of Mahikeng in South Africa’s North West Province, handling domestic flights and general aviation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.