Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport
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Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport is a regional airport in southwest Michigan that provides commercial air service to the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek metropolitan areas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2149879 — 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: Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport Context triple: [Kalamazoo, hasTransportation, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport]
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A.
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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B.
Willow Run Airport
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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C.
Gaylord Regional Airport
Gaylord Regional Airport is a public airport serving the city of Gaylord and the surrounding region in northern Michigan.
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D.
Mackinac Island Airport
Mackinac Island Airport is a small public airport serving Michigan’s Mackinac Island, providing essential air access to the car-free tourist destination.
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E.
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport is a major international airport in the Detroit area and a key Midwestern hub for domestic and global air travel.
- 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: Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport Target entity description: Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport is a regional airport in southwest Michigan that provides commercial air service to the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek metropolitan areas.
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A.
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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B.
Willow Run Airport
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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C.
Gaylord Regional Airport
Gaylord Regional Airport is a public airport serving the city of Gaylord and the surrounding region in northern Michigan.
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D.
Mackinac Island Airport
Mackinac Island Airport is a small public airport serving Michigan’s Mackinac Island, providing essential air access to the car-free tourist destination.
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E.
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport is a major international airport in the Detroit area and a key Midwestern hub for domestic and global air travel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
commercial service airport ⓘ public airport ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 874 feet ⓘ |
| FAAcode | AZO ⓘ |
| hasApproach | instrument approach procedures ⓘ |
| hasCategory | regional airport ⓘ |
| hasCityServed |
Battle Creek
ⓘ
Kalamazoo ⓘ |
| hasCode | AZO ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
air traffic control tower
ⓘ
aircraft hangars ⓘ fixed-base operator ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport ⓘ |
| hasGroundTransportation |
automobile parking
ⓘ
rental cars ⓘ taxis ⓘ |
| hasPassengerServiceType | scheduled passenger flights ⓘ |
| hasPassengerTerminal | main passenger terminal building ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
Runway 17/35
ⓘ
Runway 5/23 ⓘ Runway 9/27 ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfService |
commercial air service
ⓘ
general aviation ⓘ |
| hasUse |
air cargo operations
ⓘ
flight training ⓘ public air transportation ⓘ |
| IATAcode | AZO ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | KAZO ⓘ |
| isAccessibleFrom | highways in southwest Michigan ⓘ |
| isNear |
city of Kalamazoo
ⓘ
city of Portage, Michigan ⓘ
linked to:
Portage, Michigan
|
| isOwnedBy | public authorities ⓘ |
| isPartOf | air transportation infrastructure of Michigan ⓘ |
| isRegionalAirportFor |
southwest Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Southwest Michigan region
|
| locatedIn |
Kalamazoo County, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michigan ⓘ |
| regionServed |
southwestern Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Southwest Michigan region
|
| serves |
Battle Creek metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Battle Creek
Battle Creek, Michigan ⓘ
linked to:
Battle Creek
Kalamazoo metropolitan area ⓘ Kalamazoo, Michigan ⓘ
linked to:
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
|
| timeZone |
America/Detroit
ⓘ
Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport Description of subject: Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport is a regional airport in southwest Michigan that provides commercial air service to the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek metropolitan areas.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport
→
hasFullName
→
Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport
ⓘ
Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area
→
servedByAirport
→
Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport
ⓘ
subject linked to:
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States