Tempelhof Airport
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Tempelhof Airport is a historic Berlin airfield best known as a central hub of the Berlin Airlift during the Cold War.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Berlin Tempelhof Airport | 6 |
| Tempelhof Airport canonical | 6 |
| former Berlin Tempelhof Airport | 5 |
| Tempelhof | 3 |
| Tempelhof Airport terminal | 3 |
| former Tempelhof Airport | 3 |
| Tempelhof Airport terminal building | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T106184 — 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: Tempelhof Airport Context triple: [Luftbrücke, uses, Tempelhof Airport]
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A.
Tegel
Tegel is a locality in the Reinickendorf borough of Berlin, Germany, historically known for its manor associated with the Humboldt family and later for the former Berlin Tegel Airport.
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B.
Vnukovo International Airport
Vnukovo International Airport is one of Moscow’s major international airports, serving as a key hub for both domestic and international flights in Russia.
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C.
Domodedovo International Airport
Domodedovo International Airport is one of Moscow’s major international airports and a key air transport hub in Russia.
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D.
Orly Airport
Orly Airport is a major international airport serving Paris, France, located south of the city and handling a large share of its domestic and European flights.
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E.
West Berlin
West Berlin was the Western-aligned, enclave-like portion of Berlin surrounded by East Germany during the Cold War, symbolizing resistance to Soviet pressure and the division of Germany.
- 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: Tempelhof Airport Target entity description: Tempelhof Airport is a historic Berlin airfield best known as a central hub of the Berlin Airlift during the Cold War.
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A.
Tegel
Tegel is a locality in the Reinickendorf borough of Berlin, Germany, historically known for its manor associated with the Humboldt family and later for the former Berlin Tegel Airport.
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B.
Vnukovo International Airport
Vnukovo International Airport is one of Moscow’s major international airports, serving as a key hub for both domestic and international flights in Russia.
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C.
Domodedovo International Airport
Domodedovo International Airport is one of Moscow’s major international airports and a key air transport hub in Russia.
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D.
Orly Airport
Orly Airport is a major international airport serving Paris, France, located south of the city and handling a large share of its domestic and European flights.
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E.
West Berlin
West Berlin was the Western-aligned, enclave-like portion of Berlin surrounded by East Germany during the Cold War, symbolizing resistance to Soviet pressure and the division of Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airfield
ⓘ
airport ⓘ former airport ⓘ historic site ⓘ |
| architect | Ernst Sagebiel ⓘ |
| ceasedOperations | 30 October 2008 ⓘ |
| cityServed | Berlin ⓘ |
| closed | 2008 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1920s ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| controlledBy |
US military authorities in West Berlin
ⓘ
United States Air Force ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| currentUse |
event venue
ⓘ
public park ⓘ recreational area ⓘ |
| designedDuring | Nazi era ⓘ |
| elevation |
167 ft
ⓘ
51 m ⓘ |
| formerICAOcode | EDDI ⓘ |
| hasBuilding | massive curved terminal building ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | protected historic monument ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
09L/27R
ⓘ
09R/27L ⓘ |
| IATAcode | THF ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | EDDI ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Berlin
ⓘ
Berlin, Germany ⓘ
linked to:
Berlin
Tempelhof-Schöneberg ⓘ West Berlin ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Berlin city center
ⓘ
linked to:
Berlin
|
| namedAfter |
Tempelhof district of Berlin
ⓘ
linked to:
Tempelhof-Schöneberg
|
| notableFeature | one of the largest built structures in the world at time of construction ⓘ |
| notableFor | Berlin Airlift ⓘ |
| opened | 1923 ⓘ |
| operator | Berliner Flughafen-Gesellschaft ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
City of Berlin
ⓘ
linked to:
Berlin
|
| partOf | Tempelhofer Feld ⓘ |
| rebuilt | 1930s ⓘ |
| roleIn | Berlin Airlift ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
09L/27R 2,094 m
ⓘ
09R/27L 1,840 m ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servedAs | central hub of the Berlin Airlift ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Allied forces
ⓘ
US Air Force ⓘ
linked to:
United States Air Force
civil airlines ⓘ |
| usedDuring |
Cold War
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
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: Tempelhof Airport Description of subject: Tempelhof Airport is a historic Berlin airfield best known as a central hub of the Berlin Airlift during the Cold War.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Luftbrückendenkmal (Berlin Airlift Memorial)
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subject linked to:
Airlift Square@en
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