Cathay Dragon (historical)
E281756
Cathay Dragon was a Hong Kong-based regional airline, formerly known as Dragonair, that operated passenger and cargo services across Asia before ceasing operations in 2020.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cathay Dragon (historical) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2595278 — 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: Cathay Dragon (historical) Context triple: [Cathay City, tenant, Cathay Dragon (historical)]
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A.
Mandarin Airlines
Mandarin Airlines is a Taiwanese regional airline that operates domestic and short-haul international flights, primarily serving secondary routes within Taiwan and nearby Asian destinations.
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B.
Cathay Pacific
Cathay Pacific is a major Hong Kong-based international airline known for its extensive global network and premium full-service operations.
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C.
China Eastern Airlines
China Eastern Airlines is a major Chinese airline based in Shanghai that operates extensive domestic and international routes as one of the country’s largest carriers.
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D.
Jin Air
Jin Air is a South Korean low-cost airline that operates domestic and international passenger flights.
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E.
Mahan Air
Mahan Air is a major Iranian private airline that operates domestic and international flights across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
- 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: Cathay Dragon (historical) Target entity description: Cathay Dragon was a Hong Kong-based regional airline, formerly known as Dragonair, that operated passenger and cargo services across Asia before ceasing operations in 2020.
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A.
Mandarin Airlines
Mandarin Airlines is a Taiwanese regional airline that operates domestic and short-haul international flights, primarily serving secondary routes within Taiwan and nearby Asian destinations.
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B.
Cathay Pacific
Cathay Pacific is a major Hong Kong-based international airline known for its extensive global network and premium full-service operations.
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C.
China Eastern Airlines
China Eastern Airlines is a major Chinese airline based in Shanghai that operates extensive domestic and international routes as one of the country’s largest carriers.
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D.
Jin Air
Jin Air is a South Korean low-cost airline that operates domestic and international passenger flights.
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E.
Mahan Air
Mahan Air is a major Iranian private airline that operates domestic and international flights across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Cathay Dragon (historical) Description of subject: Cathay Dragon was a Hong Kong-based regional airline, formerly known as Dragonair, that operated passenger and cargo services across Asia before ceasing operations in 2020.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.