Abbotsinch Airport
E225787
Abbotsinch Airport was the former name of what is now Glasgow Airport, a major international airport serving the Glasgow area in Scotland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abbotsinch Airport canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2012516 — 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: Abbotsinch Airport Context triple: [Glasgow Airport, previousName, Abbotsinch Airport]
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A.
Tiree Airport
Tiree Airport is a small regional airport on the Isle of Tiree in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, providing vital air links between the island and the Scottish mainland.
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B.
Cessnock Airport
Cessnock Airport is a regional airfield in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia, primarily serving general aviation, flight training, and tourism activities such as wine region access and scenic flights.
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C.
Islay Airport
Islay Airport is a small regional airport on the Scottish island of Islay that provides domestic flights and connects the island to mainland Scotland.
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D.
Benbecula Airport
Benbecula Airport is a small regional airport in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides that provides vital air links for local communities and is primarily served by Loganair.
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E.
Aberdeen Regional Airport
Aberdeen Regional Airport is a public airport serving commercial and general aviation needs for the city of Aberdeen and the surrounding region in northeastern South Dakota.
- 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: Abbotsinch Airport Target entity description: Abbotsinch Airport was the former name of what is now Glasgow Airport, a major international airport serving the Glasgow area in Scotland.
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A.
Tiree Airport
Tiree Airport is a small regional airport on the Isle of Tiree in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, providing vital air links between the island and the Scottish mainland.
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B.
Cessnock Airport
Cessnock Airport is a regional airfield in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia, primarily serving general aviation, flight training, and tourism activities such as wine region access and scenic flights.
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C.
Islay Airport
Islay Airport is a small regional airport on the Scottish island of Islay that provides domestic flights and connects the island to mainland Scotland.
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D.
Benbecula Airport
Benbecula Airport is a small regional airport in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides that provides vital air links for local communities and is primarily served by Loganair.
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E.
Aberdeen Regional Airport
Aberdeen Regional Airport is a public airport serving commercial and general aviation needs for the city of Aberdeen and the surrounding region in northeastern South Dakota.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | airport ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| distanceFromCityCentre |
about 11 kilometres west of Glasgow city centre
ⓘ
about 6.9 miles west of Glasgow city centre ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
26 metres
ⓘ
86 feet ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Glasgow Airport ⓘ |
| hasCargoFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| hasFormerName | Abbotsinch Airport ⓘ |
| hasRole |
internationalGatewayForGlasgowRegion
ⓘ
linked to:
Glasgow City Region
|
| hasRunway |
Runway 05/23
ⓘ
Runway 10/28 ⓘ |
| hasTerminal | main passenger terminal ⓘ |
| IATAcode | GLA ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | EGPF ⓘ |
| isMajorAirportFor | west central Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Paisley
ⓘ
Renfrewshire ⓘ Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Glasgow ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
River Clyde valley
ⓘ
linked to:
River Clyde
|
| operator | AGS Airports ⓘ |
| partOf | civilEnclaveAtRAFAbbotsinch ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves |
Glasgow
ⓘ
Greater Glasgow ⓘ |
| timezone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| usedAs |
civilAirport
ⓘ
militaryAirfield ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
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: Abbotsinch Airport Description of subject: Abbotsinch Airport was the former name of what is now Glasgow Airport, a major international airport serving the Glasgow area in Scotland.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.