RAF Fairford
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RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England, best known today as a major deployment base for U.S. Air Force operations and as the long-time host of the Royal International Air Tattoo airshow.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RAF Fairford canonical | 17 |
| Fairford Air Base | 1 |
| RAF Fairford runway and airfield | 1 |
| Royal Air Force Fairford | 1 |
| provide base operating support at RAF Fairford | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T112248 — 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: RAF Fairford Context triple: [RAF Aerobatic Team Red Arrows, previousBase, RAF Fairford]
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A.
RAF Brize Norton
RAF Brize Norton is the Royal Air Force’s largest station in the UK, serving as its main air transport and air-to-air refuelling hub.
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B.
RAF Kemble
RAF Kemble was a former Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England, best known as an early home of the Red Arrows and later as a major aircraft maintenance and storage airfield.
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RAF Scampton
RAF Scampton was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, historically significant as a bomber base during World War II and later as the long-time home of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team.
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D.
RAF Ensign
The RAF Ensign is the official flag of the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force, featuring a sky-blue field with the Union Flag in the canton and the RAF roundel.
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E.
RAF High Wycombe
RAF High Wycombe is a major Royal Air Force station in Buckinghamshire that serves as the command and administrative hub for several key RAF operational and support headquarters.
- 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: RAF Fairford Target entity description: RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England, best known today as a major deployment base for U.S. Air Force operations and as the long-time host of the Royal International Air Tattoo airshow.
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A.
RAF Brize Norton
RAF Brize Norton is the Royal Air Force’s largest station in the UK, serving as its main air transport and air-to-air refuelling hub.
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B.
RAF Kemble
RAF Kemble was a former Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England, best known as an early home of the Red Arrows and later as a major aircraft maintenance and storage airfield.
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C.
RAF Scampton
RAF Scampton was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, historically significant as a bomber base during World War II and later as the long-time home of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team.
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D.
RAF Ensign
The RAF Ensign is the official flag of the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force, featuring a sky-blue field with the Union Flag in the canton and the RAF roundel.
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E.
RAF High Wycombe
RAF High Wycombe is a major Royal Air Force station in Buckinghamshire that serves as the command and administrative hub for several key RAF operational and support headquarters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Royal Air Force station ⓘ |
| builtDuring |
Second World War
ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
|
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| garrison |
420th Air Base Squadron
ⓘ
501st Combat Support Wing ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Fairford Air Base
ⓘ
linked to:
RAF Fairford
Royal Air Force Fairford ⓘ
linked to:
RAF Fairford
|
| hasEvent | Royal International Air Tattoo ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
NATO-standard munitions storage
ⓘ
hardened aircraft shelters ⓘ large aircraft parking ramps ⓘ long runway suitable for heavy bombers ⓘ |
| hasRole |
aerial demonstration venue
ⓘ
contingency airfield ⓘ forward operating location for U.S. strategic bombers ⓘ |
| hasRunway | Runway 09/27 ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| hosts | military aviation displays ⓘ |
| IATACode | FFD ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | EGVA ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cotswold District
ⓘ
England ⓘ Gloucestershire ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Fairford ⓘ |
| notableFor |
hosting the Royal International Air Tattoo
ⓘ
supporting U.S. B-1B Lancer deployments ⓘ supporting U.S. B-2 Spirit deployments ⓘ supporting U.S. B-52 Stratofortress deployments ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1944 ⓘ |
| operator |
Royal Air Force
ⓘ
United States Air Force ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
ⓘ
linked to:
United Kingdom Ministry of Defence
|
| partOf |
RAF Air Command
ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Air Force Air Command
United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa ⓘ
linked to:
United States Air Forces in Europe
|
| runwayLength | approximately 3,046 metres ⓘ |
| timezone | GMT ⓘ |
| timezoneDST | BST ⓘ |
| usedBy |
United States Air Force Strategic Air Command
ⓘ
United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Royal International Air Tattoo
ⓘ
aerial refuelling operations ⓘ intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations ⓘ strategic bomber operations ⓘ |
| usedInConflict |
Cold War
ⓘ
Gulf War ⓘ Iraq War (2003) ⓘ
linked to:
Iraq War
Kosovo War ⓘ |
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: RAF Fairford Description of subject: RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England, best known today as a major deployment base for U.S. Air Force operations and as the long-time host of the Royal International Air Tattoo airshow.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: RAF Fairford
linked to: RAF Fairford
linked to: RAF Fairford
linked to: RAF Fairford
subject linked to:
RIAT
subject linked to:
Tim Prince