Barra Airport
E110290
Barra Airport is a unique Scottish airport on the island of Barra, famous for its tidal beach runway where scheduled flights land directly on the sand.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Barra Airport canonical | 20 |
| Barra Airport area | 1 |
| Barra Airport terminal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T881034 — 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: Barra Airport Context triple: [Barra, hasAirport, Barra Airport]
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A.
Panguilemo Airport
Panguilemo Airport is a regional public airport serving the city of Talca and the surrounding Maule Region in central Chile.
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B.
La Aurora International Airport
La Aurora International Airport is the main international gateway to Guatemala, serving as the primary airport for Guatemala City and one of the busiest airports in Central America.
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C.
Balbuena Military Airport
Balbuena Military Airport was the earlier military airfield in Mexico City that evolved into today’s Mexico City International Airport.
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D.
Maya-Maya Airport
Maya-Maya Airport is the main international airport serving Brazzaville, the capital city of the Republic of the Congo.
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E.
Carriel Sur International Airport
Carriel Sur International Airport is a major regional airport serving the city of Concepción and the surrounding Biobío Region in Chile.
- 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: Barra Airport Target entity description: Barra Airport is a unique Scottish airport on the island of Barra, famous for its tidal beach runway where scheduled flights land directly on the sand.
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A.
Panguilemo Airport
Panguilemo Airport is a regional public airport serving the city of Talca and the surrounding Maule Region in central Chile.
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B.
La Aurora International Airport
La Aurora International Airport is the main international gateway to Guatemala, serving as the primary airport for Guatemala City and one of the busiest airports in Central America.
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C.
Balbuena Military Airport
Balbuena Military Airport was the earlier military airfield in Mexico City that evolved into today’s Mexico City International Airport.
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D.
Maya-Maya Airport
Maya-Maya Airport is the main international airport serving Brazzaville, the capital city of the Republic of the Congo.
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E.
Carriel Sur International Airport
Carriel Sur International Airport is a major regional airport serving the city of Concepción and the surrounding Biobío Region in Chile.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ regional airport ⓘ tidal beach airport ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| distanceFromCastlebay | about 10 kilometres ⓘ |
| hasBaggageHandling | yes ⓘ |
| hasCafé | yes ⓘ |
| hasCarHire | yes ⓘ |
| hasCarPark | yes ⓘ |
| hasCheckInFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| hasCodeType |
IATA
ⓘ
linked to:
International Air Transport Association
ICAO ⓘ
linked to:
International Civil Aviation Organization
|
| hasControlTower | yes ⓘ |
| hasElevation |
1 metre above sea level (approximate)
ⓘ
3 feet above sea level (approximate) ⓘ |
| hasLighting | limited runway lighting ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid | runway marker poles ⓘ |
| hasPassengerServices | yes ⓘ |
| hasRunwayDesignation |
07/25
ⓘ
11/29 ⓘ 15/33 ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | sand ⓘ |
| hasRunwayType |
beach runway
ⓘ
tidal runway ⓘ |
| hasScheduledServiceTo | Glasgow Airport ⓘ |
| hasTerminalBuilding | yes ⓘ |
| hasUniqueFeature | only airport in the world where scheduled flights use a tidal beach runway ⓘ |
| IATAcode | BRR ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | EGPR ⓘ |
| isFamousFor |
runways that are submerged at high tide
ⓘ
scheduled flights landing on a tidal beach ⓘ |
| isTouristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Barra
ⓘ
Outer Hebrides ⓘ Scotland ⓘ |
| nearbySettlement | Eoligarry ⓘ |
| operator | Highlands and Islands Airports Limited ⓘ |
| primaryAirline | Loganair ⓘ |
| region |
Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles council area)
ⓘ
linked to:
Na h-Eileanan Siar council area
|
| runwayCount | 3 ⓘ |
| runwaysUsableAt | low tide ⓘ |
| safetyConsideration |
operations restricted by daylight hours in poor weather
ⓘ
operations restricted by tide times ⓘ |
| serves |
Barra
ⓘ
Castlebay ⓘ |
| timezone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
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: Barra Airport Description of subject: Barra Airport is a unique Scottish airport on the island of Barra, famous for its tidal beach runway where scheduled flights land directly on the sand.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.