Funchal Airport
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Funchal Airport is the main international airport serving the island of Madeira, Portugal, known for its dramatic runway and challenging approach.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Funchal Airport canonical | 6 |
| Madeira Airport | 4 |
| Porto Santo Airport | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2422515 — 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: Funchal Airport Context triple: [TAP Air Portugal, focusCity, Funchal Airport]
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A.
Horta Airport
Horta Airport is a regional airport serving the island of Faial in the Azores archipelago of Portugal, providing domestic and limited international connections.
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B.
La Palma Airport
La Palma Airport is the main commercial airport serving the island of La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands, handling domestic and limited international flights for residents and tourists.
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C.
Lajes Airport
Lajes Airport is a joint civil-military airfield on Terceira Island in the Azores, Portugal, serving both regional flights and strategic military operations in the North Atlantic.
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D.
Lanzarote Airport
Lanzarote Airport is the main international airport serving the island of Lanzarote in Spain’s Canary Islands, handling both domestic and tourist traffic.
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E.
Tenerife South Airport
Tenerife South Airport is a major international airport on the island of Tenerife that serves as one of the primary air gateways to Spain’s Canary Islands.
- 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: Funchal Airport Target entity description: Funchal Airport is the main international airport serving the island of Madeira, Portugal, known for its dramatic runway and challenging approach.
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A.
Horta Airport
Horta Airport is a regional airport serving the island of Faial in the Azores archipelago of Portugal, providing domestic and limited international connections.
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B.
La Palma Airport
La Palma Airport is the main commercial airport serving the island of La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands, handling domestic and limited international flights for residents and tourists.
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C.
Lajes Airport
Lajes Airport is a joint civil-military airfield on Terceira Island in the Azores, Portugal, serving both regional flights and strategic military operations in the North Atlantic.
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D.
Lanzarote Airport
Lanzarote Airport is the main international airport serving the island of Lanzarote in Spain’s Canary Islands, handling both domestic and tourist traffic.
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E.
Tenerife South Airport
Tenerife South Airport is a major international airport on the island of Tenerife that serves as one of the primary air gateways to Spain’s Canary Islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international airport
ⓘ
transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| classification | public airport ⓘ |
| country | Portugal ⓘ |
| daylightSavingTimeZone | UTC+01:00 ⓘ |
| hasApproachType |
instrument approach procedures
ⓘ
visual approach procedures ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
apron for commercial aircraft
ⓘ
control tower ⓘ passenger terminal building ⓘ |
| hasNavigationChallenge |
curved approach
ⓘ
terrain proximity ⓘ wind shear ⓘ |
| hasPassengerTrafficType |
domestic flights
ⓘ
international flights ⓘ |
| hasRunwayOrientation | approximately northeast–southwest ⓘ |
| hasSeaProximity | runway end close to sea ⓘ |
| hasTerminalType | passenger terminal ⓘ |
| hasUse |
local passenger traffic
ⓘ
tourism traffic ⓘ |
| IATAcode | FNC ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | LPMA ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Madeira
ⓘ
municipality of Santa Cruz ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
coastline of Madeira ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
island of Madeira
ⓘ
linked to:
Madeira
|
| notableFor |
challenging approach
ⓘ
dramatic runway ⓘ runway partly built on concrete pillars ⓘ |
| operatedBy | ANA Aeroportos de Portugal ⓘ |
| ownedBy | ANA Aeroportos de Portugal ⓘ |
| partOf |
Madeira archipelago
ⓘ
linked to:
Madeira
|
| regionServed |
Autonomous Region of Madeira
ⓘ
linked to:
Madeira
|
| runwayCount | 1 ⓘ |
| runwayDesignation |
05
ⓘ
23 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| runwayType | elevated platform ⓘ |
| safetyImprovements | runway extension on pillars ⓘ |
| serves |
Madeira Island
ⓘ
linked to:
Madeira
city of Funchal ⓘ |
| servesAs | main gateway to Madeira ⓘ |
| timezone | UTC±00:00 ⓘ |
| transportConnection | road links to Funchal ⓘ |
| 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: Funchal Airport Description of subject: Funchal Airport is the main international airport serving the island of Madeira, Portugal, known for its dramatic runway and challenging approach.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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