Ovda Airport
E271714
Ovda Airport is a former Israeli military and civilian airport in the southern Negev desert that served as an alternative international gateway near Eilat.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ovda Airport canonical | 7 |
| Ovda Airbase | 1 |
| Ovda Airport (civil operations) | 1 |
| Ovda International Airport | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2497635 — 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: Ovda Airport Context triple: [Negev desert, contains, Ovda Airport]
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A.
Gardabya Airport
Gardabya Airport is a Libyan airport serving the coastal city of Sirte and its surrounding region.
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B.
Rowriah Airport
Rowriah Airport is a domestic airport serving the city of Jorhat in the Indian state of Assam.
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C.
Ozar Airport
Ozar Airport is a public airport serving the city of Nashik in Maharashtra, India, handling both civilian and limited military aviation operations.
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D.
Almaza Airport
Almaza Airport is a historic airfield in Cairo that served as the city's main airport before the opening of Cairo International Airport.
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E.
Strigino International Airport
Strigino International Airport is the main commercial airport serving Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, handling both domestic and international flights.
- 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: Ovda Airport Target entity description: Ovda Airport is a former Israeli military and civilian airport in the southern Negev desert that served as an alternative international gateway near Eilat.
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A.
Gardabya Airport
Gardabya Airport is a Libyan airport serving the coastal city of Sirte and its surrounding region.
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B.
Rowriah Airport
Rowriah Airport is a domestic airport serving the city of Jorhat in the Indian state of Assam.
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C.
Ozar Airport
Ozar Airport is a public airport serving the city of Nashik in Maharashtra, India, handling both civilian and limited military aviation operations.
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D.
Almaza Airport
Almaza Airport is a historic airfield in Cairo that served as the city's main airport before the opening of Cairo International Airport.
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E.
Strigino International Airport
Strigino International Airport is the main commercial airport serving Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, handling both domestic and international flights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
former military air base ⓘ |
| closedToCivilianTraffic | 2019 ⓘ |
| country | Israel ⓘ |
| distanceTo | about 60 km north of Eilat ⓘ |
| elevation |
1490 ft
ⓘ
454 m ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Ovda Airbase
ⓘ
linked to:
Ovda Airport
Ovda International Airport ⓘ
linked to:
Ovda Airport
|
| hasCategory |
Airports in Israel
ⓘ
Former international airports ⓘ Israeli Air Force bases ⓘ |
| hasIATAcode | VDA ⓘ |
| hasICAOcode | LLOV ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryFunction | Israeli Air Force training base ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
03L/21R
ⓘ
03R/21L ⓘ |
| hasTerminalType | civilian passenger terminal ⓘ |
| hasTimezone | Asia/Jerusalem ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffset | +02:00 ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffsetDST | +03:00 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Negev desert
ⓘ
Southern District, Israel ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | southern Negev ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Eilat ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Israel Airports Authority ⓘ |
| primaryUse | military ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Ramon Airport ⓘ |
| role | alternative international gateway to Eilat ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
2600 m
ⓘ
3200 m ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| secondaryUse | civilian ⓘ |
| servedAs | charter flight airport for tourists to Eilat ⓘ |
| serves | Eilat ⓘ |
| usedBy | Israeli Air Force ⓘ |
| usedFor |
domestic flights
ⓘ
international 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: Ovda Airport Description of subject: Ovda Airport is a former Israeli military and civilian airport in the southern Negev desert that served as an alternative international gateway near Eilat.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.