Shannon Airport
E144113
Shannon Airport is a major international airport in western Ireland known for its transatlantic services and historic role in pioneering global air travel.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shannon Airport canonical | 33 |
| Shannon Airport (across estuary region) | 1 |
| Shannon Airport (regionally) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1091943 — 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: Shannon Airport Context triple: [Aer Lingus, secondaryHub, Shannon Airport]
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A.
Avalon Airport
Avalon Airport is a regional airport in Victoria, Australia, serving the Greater Melbourne and Geelong areas with domestic flights and some international and low-cost carrier operations.
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B.
Darwin International Airport
Darwin International Airport is the main domestic and international airport serving the city of Darwin and the Northern Territory in northern Australia.
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C.
Friendship International Airport
Friendship International Airport was the original name of the major airport now known as Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, serving the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.
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D.
Victoria International Airport
Victoria International Airport is the main commercial airport serving the Greater Victoria region on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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E.
Mitiga International Airport
Mitiga International Airport is a major airport serving Tripoli, Libya, handling both domestic and international flights.
- 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: Shannon Airport Target entity description: Shannon Airport is a major international airport in western Ireland known for its transatlantic services and historic role in pioneering global air travel.
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A.
Avalon Airport
Avalon Airport is a regional airport in Victoria, Australia, serving the Greater Melbourne and Geelong areas with domestic flights and some international and low-cost carrier operations.
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B.
Darwin International Airport
Darwin International Airport is the main domestic and international airport serving the city of Darwin and the Northern Territory in northern Australia.
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C.
Friendship International Airport
Friendship International Airport was the original name of the major airport now known as Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, serving the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.
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D.
Victoria International Airport
Victoria International Airport is the main commercial airport serving the Greater Victoria region on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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E.
Mitiga International Airport
Mitiga International Airport is a major airport serving Tripoli, Libya, handling both domestic and international flights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international airport
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ |
| connectedBy |
bus services to Ennis
ⓘ
bus services to Galway ⓘ bus services to Limerick ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasElevation | approximately 14 meters ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
U.S. preclearance facility
ⓘ
duty-free shops ⓘ runway suitable for long-haul aircraft ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSignificance |
important stopover for early jet airliners
ⓘ
one of the world’s earliest transatlantic airports ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid |
VOR/DME
ⓘ
instrument landing system ⓘ |
| hasOwner | Shannon Group plc ⓘ |
| hasParking |
long-stay car park
ⓘ
short-stay car park ⓘ |
| hasPassengerTerminal | single main terminal ⓘ |
| hasRole |
hub for transatlantic flights between Europe and North America
ⓘ
major transatlantic gateway ⓘ |
| hasRunway | Runway 06/24 ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| hasType | civil airport ⓘ |
| hasUSCustomsPreclearance | true ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.shannonairport.ie/ ⓘ |
| IATAcode | SNN ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | EINN ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early refuelling stop for transatlantic flights
ⓘ
historic role in global air travel ⓘ pioneering transatlantic air services ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
County Clare
ⓘ
western Ireland ⓘ |
| locatedNear | River Shannon ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Shannon Estuary ⓘ |
| nearCity |
Ennis
ⓘ
Limerick ⓘ |
| offersService |
European passenger flights
ⓘ
cargo flights ⓘ transatlantic passenger flights ⓘ |
| opened | 1945 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Shannon Airport Authority ⓘ |
| regionServed | Mid-West Region of Ireland ⓘ |
| serves |
Galway
ⓘ
Limerick ⓘ
linked to:
Limerick City
Shannon ⓘ |
| servesRegion | west of Ireland ⓘ |
| timeZone | Europe/Dublin ⓘ |
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: Shannon Airport Description of subject: Shannon Airport is a major international airport in western Ireland known for its transatlantic services and historic role in pioneering global air travel.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.