Runway 5
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Runway 5 is an airport runway designation indicating an approximate magnetic heading of 50 degrees, typically used when runway numbers are updated to reflect shifts in Earth’s magnetic variation.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1543604 — 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: Runway 5 Context triple: [Runway 4, canBeRenumberedTo, Runway 5]
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A.
Runway 4
Runway 4 is one end of a bidirectional airport runway, typically aligned toward a magnetic heading of approximately 040 degrees.
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B.
Runway 19
Runway 19 is one of the primary landing and takeoff runways serving Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport in Kansas City, Missouri.
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C.
Runway 22
Runway 22 is the runway end aligned approximately with a 220-degree magnetic heading, commonly used for aircraft takeoffs and landings in that direction.
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D.
Runway 21
Runway 21 is one of the primary landing and takeoff runways serving Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport in Kansas City, Missouri.
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E.
Runway 15R/33L
Runway 15R/33L is one of the primary parallel runways at Boston Logan International Airport, used for both arrivals and departures.
- 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: Runway 5 Target entity description: Runway 5 is an airport runway designation indicating an approximate magnetic heading of 50 degrees, typically used when runway numbers are updated to reflect shifts in Earth’s magnetic variation.
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A.
Runway 4
Runway 4 is one end of a bidirectional airport runway, typically aligned toward a magnetic heading of approximately 040 degrees.
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B.
Runway 19
Runway 19 is one of the primary landing and takeoff runways serving Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport in Kansas City, Missouri.
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C.
Runway 22
Runway 22 is the runway end aligned approximately with a 220-degree magnetic heading, commonly used for aircraft takeoffs and landings in that direction.
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D.
Runway 21
Runway 21 is one of the primary landing and takeoff runways serving Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport in Kansas City, Missouri.
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E.
Runway 15R/33L
Runway 15R/33L is one of the primary parallel runways at Boston Logan International Airport, used for both arrivals and departures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport infrastructure designation
ⓘ
runway designation ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
parallel-runway systems with suffixes
ⓘ
single-runway airports ⓘ |
| complementaryRunwayHeadingDifferenceInDegrees | 180 ⓘ |
| doesNotUse | true north for numbering ⓘ |
| hasComplementaryRunwayDesignation | Runway 23 ⓘ |
| hasDirectionReference | magnetic north ⓘ |
| hasMagneticHeadingRangeInDegrees | 046–055 ⓘ |
| hasNumericFormat | two-digit runway marking “05” on pavement ⓘ |
| hasRunwayNumber | 5 ⓘ |
| indicatesApproximateMagneticHeadingInDegrees | 50 ⓘ |
| isAffectedBy | Earth’s magnetic variation ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith | runway orientation approximately northeast ⓘ |
| isBasedOn | magnetic heading ⓘ |
| isConstrainedBy | runway numbering tolerance of ±5 degrees magnetic heading ⓘ |
| isDefinedBy |
FAA runway numbering conventions
ⓘ
ICAO runway numbering conventions ⓘ aviation standards ⓘ |
| isDisplayedOn |
aeronautical charts
ⓘ
airport diagrams ⓘ |
| isMarkedOn | runway surface ⓘ |
| isOppositeOf | runway orientation approximately southwest ⓘ |
| isPartOf | runway identification system ⓘ |
| isRoundedFromHeading | heading divided by 10 and rounded to nearest integer ⓘ |
| isUpdatedWhen | magnetic heading shifts beyond allowed tolerance ⓘ |
| isUsedAt | airports worldwide ⓘ |
| isUsedBy |
air traffic controllers
ⓘ
airport operations personnel ⓘ pilots ⓘ |
| isUsedFor |
air traffic control communication
ⓘ
aircraft navigation ⓘ runway identification ⓘ |
| isUsedForOperations |
landing
ⓘ
takeoff ⓘ touch-and-go ⓘ |
| isUsedIn | radio phraseology as “Runway Five” ⓘ |
| mayBeRenumberedDueTo | changes in magnetic declination ⓘ |
| mayHaveParallelVariant |
Runway 5C
ⓘ
linked to:
Runway 5L
Runway 5L ⓘ Runway 5R ⓘ
linked to:
Runway 5L
|
| usesMarkingColor | white ⓘ |
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: Runway 5 Description of subject: Runway 5 is an airport runway designation indicating an approximate magnetic heading of 50 degrees, typically used when runway numbers are updated to reflect shifts in Earth’s magnetic variation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Runway 5
linked to: Runway 5