Hanscom Field
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Hanscom Field is a public airport in Bedford, Massachusetts that serves as a major general aviation and corporate aviation facility for the Greater Boston area.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hanscom Air Force Base | 12 |
| Hanscom Field canonical | 4 |
| Laurence G. Hanscom Field | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1034860 — 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: Hanscom Field Context triple: [Massport, operates, Hanscom Field]
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A.
Quincy Municipal Airport
Quincy Municipal Airport is a public-use airport serving the city of Quincy and surrounding areas in Gadsden County, Florida.
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B.
Boston Logan International Airport
Boston Logan International Airport is a major international airport serving the Greater Boston area and New England, acting as a key hub for both domestic and transatlantic flights.
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C.
Stanstead Airport
Stanstead Airport is a railway station in Essex, England, serving London Stansted Airport with regional and intercity train connections.
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D.
Wilson Airport
Wilson Airport is a busy domestic and regional airport in Nairobi, Kenya, serving general aviation, charter flights, and short-haul passenger services.
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E.
Worcester Regional Airport
Worcester Regional Airport is a public airport in central Massachusetts that provides commercial and general aviation services to the Worcester metropolitan area.
- 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: Hanscom Field Target entity description: Hanscom Field is a public airport in Bedford, Massachusetts that serves as a major general aviation and corporate aviation facility for the Greater Boston area.
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A.
Quincy Municipal Airport
Quincy Municipal Airport is a public-use airport serving the city of Quincy and surrounding areas in Gadsden County, Florida.
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B.
Boston Logan International Airport
Boston Logan International Airport is a major international airport serving the Greater Boston area and New England, acting as a key hub for both domestic and transatlantic flights.
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C.
Stanstead Airport
Stanstead Airport is a railway station in Essex, England, serving London Stansted Airport with regional and intercity train connections.
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D.
Wilson Airport
Wilson Airport is a busy domestic and regional airport in Nairobi, Kenya, serving general aviation, charter flights, and short-haul passenger services.
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E.
Worcester Regional Airport
Worcester Regional Airport is a public airport in central Massachusetts that provides commercial and general aviation services to the Worcester metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
general aviation airport ⓘ public airport ⓘ reliever airport ⓘ |
| cityServed |
Bedford, Massachusetts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | 133 feet ⓘ |
| FAAcode | BED ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
corporate aviation
ⓘ
general aviation ⓘ |
| hasAdjacentFacility |
Hanscom Air Force Base
ⓘ
linked to:
Hanscom Field
|
| hasBasedAircraft |
corporate jets
ⓘ
general aviation aircraft ⓘ |
| hasCategory | reliever airport for Boston Logan International Airport ⓘ |
| hasCustomsService | yes ⓘ |
| hasFBO | fixed-base operators ⓘ |
| hasHelicopterOperations | yes ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid | instrument approach procedures ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfRunways | 2 ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
Runway 11/29
ⓘ
Runway 5/23 ⓘ |
| hasTerminalType | general aviation terminal ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfTraffic |
air taxi operations
ⓘ
business aviation ⓘ private aviation ⓘ |
| IATAcode | BED ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | KBED ⓘ |
| isDistinctFrom |
Hanscom Air Force Base
ⓘ
linked to:
Hanscom Field
|
| locatedIn |
Bedford, Massachusetts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greater Boston ⓘ Massachusetts ⓘ Middlesex County, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| near |
Concord, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Lexington, Massachusetts ⓘ Lincoln, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Massachusetts Port Authority ⓘ |
| owner | Massachusetts Port Authority ⓘ |
| regulatoryAuthority | Federal Aviation Administration ⓘ |
| role |
corporate aviation facility for Greater Boston
ⓘ
major general aviation facility for Greater Boston ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves | Greater Boston ⓘ |
| servesAsRelieverFor | Logan International Airport ⓘ |
| timezone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| 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: Hanscom Field Description of subject: Hanscom Field is a public airport in Bedford, Massachusetts that serves as a major general aviation and corporate aviation facility for the Greater Boston area.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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