Runway 3
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Runway 3 is an airport runway designation indicating a magnetic heading of approximately 030 degrees, used to guide aircraft during takeoff and landing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Runway 3 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1543605 — 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 3 Context triple: [Runway 4, canBeRenumberedFrom, Runway 3]
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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 1/19
Runway 1/19 is a primary north–south runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, used for both commercial and general aviation operations.
- 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 3 Target entity description: Runway 3 is an airport runway designation indicating a magnetic heading of approximately 030 degrees, used to guide aircraft during takeoff and landing.
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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 1/19
Runway 1/19 is a primary north–south runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, used for both commercial and general aviation operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport infrastructure element
ⓘ
runway designation ⓘ |
| communicatedAs | “runway zero three” ⓘ |
| communicatedVia | radio phraseology ⓘ |
| domain | aviation ⓘ |
| followsStandard |
FAA runway numbering convention
ⓘ
ICAO runway numbering convention ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateReference | local magnetic north ⓘ |
| hasDirection | northeast ⓘ |
| hasExampleVariant |
Runway 3C
ⓘ
Runway 3L ⓘ Runway 3R ⓘ |
| hasMagneticHeadingApprox |
030 degrees
ⓘ
30 degrees ⓘ |
| hasNotationSystem | Arabic numerals ⓘ |
| hasNumericFormat | two-digit runway number ⓘ |
| hasOppositeHeadingApprox | 210 degrees ⓘ |
| hasOppositeRunway | Runway 21 ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryUse | runway identification ⓘ |
| hasRunwayNumber | 3 ⓘ |
| isBasedOn | magnetic heading rounded to nearest 10 degrees and divided by 10 ⓘ |
| mayBeRenumberedTo | Runway 4 ⓘ |
| mayIncludeSuffix |
C
ⓘ
L ⓘ R ⓘ |
| partOf | airport runway system ⓘ |
| regulatedBy |
international civil aviation standards
ⓘ
national aviation authorities ⓘ |
| safetyRole |
prevents runway confusion
ⓘ
supports correct runway alignment ⓘ |
| subjectTo | magnetic variation changes over time ⓘ |
| usedBy |
air traffic controllers
ⓘ
pilots ⓘ |
| usedFor |
aircraft landing
ⓘ
aircraft takeoff ⓘ |
| usedIn |
aeronautical charts
ⓘ
airport diagrams ⓘ airport operations ⓘ |
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 3 Description of subject: Runway 3 is an airport runway designation indicating a magnetic heading of approximately 030 degrees, used to guide aircraft during takeoff and landing.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.