9C
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9C is the IATA airline designator assigned to Spring Airlines, a Chinese low-cost carrier.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 9C canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11800605 — 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: 9C Context triple: [Spring Airlines, IATAcode, 9C]
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A.
9A
9A is a designation used for several highways and routes in different regions, most notably in New York State.
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B.
9E
9E is the IATA airline designator used by Endeavor Air, a regional carrier operating flights primarily for Delta Air Lines in North America.
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C.
9D
9D is the designation for a state highway in New York known as New York State Route 9D.
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D.
9N
9N is the designation for a New York State highway that runs along portions of the Hudson River and Lake George, serving communities in the eastern part of the state.
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E.
9P
9P is a distributed file system protocol from the Plan 9 operating system that unifies access to files and resources across networks through a simple, message-based interface.
- 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: 9C Target entity description: 9C is the IATA airline designator assigned to Spring Airlines, a Chinese low-cost carrier.
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A.
9A
9A is a designation used for several highways and routes in different regions, most notably in New York State.
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B.
9E
9E is the IATA airline designator used by Endeavor Air, a regional carrier operating flights primarily for Delta Air Lines in North America.
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C.
9D
9D is the designation for a state highway in New York known as New York State Route 9D.
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D.
9N
9N is the designation for a New York State highway that runs along portions of the Hudson River and Lake George, serving communities in the eastern part of the state.
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E.
9P
9P is a distributed file system protocol from the Plan 9 operating system that unifies access to files and resources across networks through a simple, message-based interface.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IATA airline designator
ⓘ
airline ⓘ |
| airlineName | Spring Airlines ⓘ |
| airlineType |
low-cost carrier
ⓘ
low-cost carrier ⓘ |
| assignedTo | Spring Airlines ⓘ |
| businessModel | no-frills service ⓘ |
| callsign | AIR SPRING ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator | China ⓘ |
| fleetType | Airbus A320 family ⓘ |
| focusCity |
Shenyang
ⓘ
Shenzhen ⓘ Shijiazhuang ⓘ |
| foundingYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Shanghai ⓘ |
| hubAirport |
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport
ⓘ
Shanghai Pudong International Airport ⓘ |
| IATACode | 9C ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | CQH ⓘ |
| marketPosition | one of China’s major low-cost carriers ⓘ |
| operationsCommenced | 2005 ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Spring Group ⓘ |
| regionServed |
East Asia
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Southeast Asia ⓘ |
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: 9C Description of subject: 9C is the IATA airline designator assigned to Spring Airlines, a Chinese low-cost carrier.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.