Wideawake Airfield
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Wideawake Airfield is a military and civilian airfield on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, serving as a strategic refueling and support base for transatlantic and military operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wideawake Airfield canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2485816 — 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: Wideawake Airfield Context triple: [RAF Ascension Island, sharedUse, Wideawake Airfield]
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A.
Libby Army Airfield
Libby Army Airfield is a U.S. Army airfield located at Fort Huachuca in southeastern Arizona, supporting military aviation operations, training, and testing activities.
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B.
Bucholz Army Airfield
Bucholz Army Airfield is a U.S. military airfield and primary aviation facility located on Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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C.
Campbell Army Airfield
Campbell Army Airfield is a U.S. Army aviation facility located at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, supporting helicopter and other military air operations for the installation.
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D.
Davison Army Airfield
Davison Army Airfield is a U.S. Army aviation facility in Virginia that supports military helicopter and fixed-wing operations for the National Capital Region.
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E.
Robert Gray Army Airfield
Robert Gray Army Airfield is a U.S. Army airfield in Texas that serves as the primary aviation facility for Fort Cavazos (formerly Fort Hood), supporting military training, deployment, and transport operations.
- 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: Wideawake Airfield Target entity description: Wideawake Airfield is a military and civilian airfield on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, serving as a strategic refueling and support base for transatlantic and military operations.
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A.
Libby Army Airfield
Libby Army Airfield is a U.S. Army airfield located at Fort Huachuca in southeastern Arizona, supporting military aviation operations, training, and testing activities.
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B.
Bucholz Army Airfield
Bucholz Army Airfield is a U.S. military airfield and primary aviation facility located on Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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C.
Campbell Army Airfield
Campbell Army Airfield is a U.S. Army aviation facility located at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, supporting helicopter and other military air operations for the installation.
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D.
Davison Army Airfield
Davison Army Airfield is a U.S. Army aviation facility in Virginia that supports military helicopter and fixed-wing operations for the National Capital Region.
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E.
Robert Gray Army Airfield
Robert Gray Army Airfield is a U.S. Army airfield in Texas that serves as the primary aviation facility for Fort Cavazos (formerly Fort Hood), supporting military training, deployment, and transport operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airfield
ⓘ
civilian airport ⓘ military air base ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 279 feet
ⓘ
approximately 85 metres ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName | RAF Ascension Island ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
air traffic control tower
ⓘ
aircraft parking apron ⓘ fuel storage ⓘ navigation aids ⓘ |
| hasLighting | runway lighting ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid |
ILS or precision approach aids
ⓘ
NDB ⓘ VOR ⓘ |
| hasRunway | Runway 13/31 ⓘ |
| hasUsage | 24-hour operations capability ⓘ |
| IATAcode | ASI ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | FHAW ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
South Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
linked to:
South Atlantic
|
| location | Ascension Island ⓘ |
| near |
Georgetown, Ascension Island
ⓘ
linked to:
Ascension Island
|
| operator |
Royal Air Force
ⓘ
United States Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf | British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha ⓘ |
| region | South Atlantic ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
approximately 10000 feet
ⓘ
approximately 3000 metres ⓘ |
| runwayOrientation | 13/31 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves | Ascension Island ⓘ |
| servesAs |
strategic refueling base
ⓘ
support base for military airlift ⓘ |
| strategicImportance |
South Atlantic military presence
ⓘ
transatlantic air bridge ⓘ |
| supports |
Atlantic surveillance missions
ⓘ
logistical resupply flights ⓘ operations to the Falkland Islands ⓘ |
| timezone | UTC ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Royal Air Force
ⓘ
United States military ⓘ
linked to:
United States Armed Forces
civilian charter airlines ⓘ |
| usedFor |
air-to-air refueling support
ⓘ
civil aviation ⓘ emergency diversion airfield ⓘ logistics support ⓘ military operations ⓘ transatlantic 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: Wideawake Airfield Description of subject: Wideawake Airfield is a military and civilian airfield on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, serving as a strategic refueling and support base for transatlantic and military operations.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.