Kigoma Airport
E182595
Kigoma Airport is a public airport in western Tanzania that serves the town of Kigoma on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kigoma Airport canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1583850 — 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: Kigoma Airport Context triple: [Kigoma, hasAirport, Kigoma Airport]
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A.
Tabora Airport
Tabora Airport is a regional public airport serving the town and surrounding Tabora Region in western Tanzania.
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B.
Kenneth Kaunda International Airport
Kenneth Kaunda International Airport is the main international gateway to Zambia, serving the capital city of Lusaka and functioning as one of the country’s busiest and most important airports.
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C.
Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport
Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport is the main international airport serving Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, named in honor of nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo.
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D.
Eldoret International Airport
Eldoret International Airport is a major airport in western Kenya serving the city of Eldoret and surrounding regions with domestic and limited international flights.
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E.
Masvingo Airport
Masvingo Airport is a small regional airport in Masvingo, Zimbabwe, providing air transport services to the city and surrounding areas.
- 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: Kigoma Airport Target entity description: Kigoma Airport is a public airport in western Tanzania that serves the town of Kigoma on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
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A.
Tabora Airport
Tabora Airport is a regional public airport serving the town and surrounding Tabora Region in western Tanzania.
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B.
Kenneth Kaunda International Airport
Kenneth Kaunda International Airport is the main international gateway to Zambia, serving the capital city of Lusaka and functioning as one of the country’s busiest and most important airports.
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C.
Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport
Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport is the main international airport serving Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, named in honor of nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo.
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D.
Eldoret International Airport
Eldoret International Airport is a major airport in western Kenya serving the city of Eldoret and surrounding regions with domestic and limited international flights.
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E.
Masvingo Airport
Masvingo Airport is a small regional airport in Masvingo, Zimbabwe, providing air transport services to the city and surrounding areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ |
| cityServed | Kigoma ⓘ |
| country | Tanzania ⓘ |
| distanceFromCityCentre | approximately 6 kilometres ⓘ |
| elevation |
2700 feet
ⓘ
823 metres ⓘ |
| hasApron | paved apron ⓘ |
| hasCategory | public use airport ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
aircraft parking area
ⓘ
passenger terminal ⓘ |
| hasFunction | connects Kigoma with other Tanzanian cities ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid | non-precision approach ⓘ |
| hasOwnership | government-owned ⓘ |
| hasRole | regional transport hub ⓘ |
| hasRunwayOrientation |
130 degrees
ⓘ
310 degrees ⓘ |
| hasType | civil airport ⓘ |
| hasUse |
cargo transport
ⓘ
passenger transport ⓘ |
| IATAcode | TKQ ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | HTKA ⓘ |
| isInContinent | Africa ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Tanzanian airport network ⓘ |
| isServedBy | Tanzanian domestic airlines ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kigoma Region
ⓘ
western Tanzania ⓘ |
| locatedOn | shore of Lake Tanganyika ⓘ |
| near |
Kigoma town centre
ⓘ
linked to:
Kigoma
Lake Tanganyika shoreline ⓘ |
| operator | Tanzania Airports Authority ⓘ |
| regionServed | western Tanzania ⓘ |
| runway | Runway 13/31 ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
1800 metres
ⓘ
5906 feet ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves | Kigoma ⓘ |
| servesLake | Lake Tanganyika ⓘ |
| servesPopulationCentre | Kigoma urban area ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Lake Tanganyika area
ⓘ
linked to:
Lake Tanganyika
|
| usedFor |
domestic flights
ⓘ
regional flights ⓘ |
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: Kigoma Airport Description of subject: Kigoma Airport is a public airport in western Tanzania that serves the town of Kigoma on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.