Willow Run Airport
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Willow Run Airport is a historic public airport near Ypsilanti, Michigan, best known for its World War II-era bomber production and ongoing role in cargo and general aviation operations.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Willow Run Airport canonical | 19 |
| Wayne County Airport Authority | 1 |
| Willow Run Airport region | 1 |
| Willow Run Airport runway system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1061777 — 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: Willow Run Airport Context triple: [Wayne County, Michigan, contains, Willow Run Airport]
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A.
Austin Straubel International Airport
Austin Straubel International Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the Green Bay, Wisconsin area, offering regional and limited national air service.
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B.
Muskegon County Airport
Muskegon County Airport is a public regional airport serving commercial and general aviation needs for the Muskegon, Michigan area.
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C.
Philip Billard Municipal Airport
Philip Billard Municipal Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Topeka in northeastern Kansas.
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D.
Ellis Municipal Airport
Ellis Municipal Airport is a small public-use airfield serving general aviation needs for the community of Ellis in western Kansas.
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E.
Orchard Field Airport
Orchard Field Airport was the original name of what is now Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, one of the world’s busiest aviation hubs.
- 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: Willow Run Airport Target entity description: Willow Run Airport is a historic public airport near Ypsilanti, Michigan, best known for its World War II-era bomber production and ongoing role in cargo and general aviation operations.
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A.
Austin Straubel International Airport
Austin Straubel International Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the Green Bay, Wisconsin area, offering regional and limited national air service.
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B.
Muskegon County Airport
Muskegon County Airport is a public regional airport serving commercial and general aviation needs for the Muskegon, Michigan area.
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C.
Philip Billard Municipal Airport
Philip Billard Municipal Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Topeka in northeastern Kansas.
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D.
Ellis Municipal Airport
Ellis Municipal Airport is a small public-use airfield serving general aviation needs for the community of Ellis in western Kansas.
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E.
Orchard Field Airport
Orchard Field Airport was the original name of what is now Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, one of the world’s busiest aviation hubs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
cargo airport ⓘ general aviation airport ⓘ public airport ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ford Motor Company
ⓘ
Willow Run manufacturing complex ⓘ
linked to:
Willow Run Bomber Plant
|
| builtFor | World War II bomber production ⓘ |
| category |
Airports in Michigan
ⓘ
Transportation in Washtenaw County, Michigan ⓘ Transportation in Wayne County, Michigan ⓘ World War II industrial site in Michigan ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| elevation |
218 m
ⓘ
716 ft ⓘ |
| FAAcode | YIP ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
air cargo terminals
ⓘ
aircraft maintenance hangars ⓘ general aviation hangars ⓘ |
| hasNo | regularly scheduled commercial passenger airline service ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
Runway 14/32
ⓘ
Runway 5L/23R ⓘ Runway 5R/23L ⓘ Runway 9/27 ⓘ |
| historicalAircraftProduced |
B-24 Liberator
ⓘ
linked to:
Consolidated B-24 Liberator
|
| historicalRole | major World War II bomber production site ⓘ |
| IATAcode | YIP ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | KYIP ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Washtenaw County, Michigan
ⓘ
Wayne County, Michigan ⓘ Ypsilanti Township, Michigan ⓘ state of Michigan ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan
|
| locatedNear |
Ypsilanti, Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Ypsilanti
|
| namedAfter | Willow Run Creek ⓘ |
| nearbyAirport | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Detroit, Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Detroit
|
| opened | 1942 ⓘ |
| operator | Wayne County Airport Authority ⓘ |
| owner | Wayne County Airport Authority ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
cargo operations
ⓘ
general aviation ⓘ |
| runwayCount | 4 ⓘ |
| serves | Detroit metropolitan area ⓘ |
| surfaceType | asphalt ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| usedFor |
air cargo flights
ⓘ
aircraft maintenance operations ⓘ charter flights ⓘ corporate aviation ⓘ |
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: Willow Run Airport Description of subject: Willow Run Airport is a historic public airport near Ypsilanti, Michigan, best known for its World War II-era bomber production and ongoing role in cargo and general aviation operations.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Willow Run Airport