DCA
E1373
DCA is the three-letter IATA airport code for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the primary domestic airport serving Washington, D.C.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DCA canonical | 11 |
| DCA (airport-wide) | 1 |
| DCA VOR/DME | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11020 — 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: DCA Context triple: [Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, IATAcode, DCA]
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A.
Chocolate City
Chocolate City is a popular nickname for Washington, D.C., highlighting its historically large and influential African American population and culture.
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B.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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C.
TEC
TEC is the commonly used acronym for the Episcopal Church, a mainline Anglican Christian denomination based in the United States.
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D.
Sununu
Sununu is a prominent American political family name most notably associated with former New Hampshire Governor and White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu and his son, Governor Chris Sununu.
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E.
Lick
Lick is the nickname of Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, a pioneering American computer scientist whose ideas helped lay the foundations for interactive computing and the internet.
- 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: DCA Target entity description: DCA is the three-letter IATA airport code for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the primary domestic airport serving Washington, D.C.
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A.
Chocolate City
Chocolate City is a popular nickname for Washington, D.C., highlighting its historically large and influential African American population and culture.
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B.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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C.
TEC
TEC is the commonly used acronym for the Episcopal Church, a mainline Anglican Christian denomination based in the United States.
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D.
Sununu
Sununu is a prominent American political family name most notably associated with former New Hampshire Governor and White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu and his son, Governor Chris Sununu.
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E.
Lick
Lick is the nickname of Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, a pioneering American computer scientist whose ideas helped lay the foundations for interactive computing and the internet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: DCA Description of subject: DCA is the three-letter IATA airport code for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the primary domestic airport serving Washington, D.C.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
DCA
subject linked to:
KDCA
subject linked to:
KDCA
subject linked to:
Terminal 1
linked to: DCA
subject linked to:
Terminal 2
linked to: DCA