Weir Cook Municipal Airport
E344800
Weir Cook Municipal Airport was the original name of what is now Indianapolis International Airport, serving as the primary airfield for Indianapolis, Indiana, in the early to mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Weir Cook Municipal Airport canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3133411 — 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: Weir Cook Municipal Airport Context triple: [Indianapolis International Airport, formerName, Weir Cook Municipal Airport]
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A.
Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport
Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Gainesville in Hall County, Georgia.
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B.
Philip Billard Municipal Airport
Philip Billard Municipal Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Topeka in northeastern Kansas.
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C.
Vinton Veterans Memorial Airport
Vinton Veterans Memorial Airport is a public-use airport serving the city of Vinton in Benton County, Iowa, primarily accommodating general aviation activities.
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D.
Sherman Municipal Airport
Sherman Municipal Airport is a public-use airport in Sherman, Texas, providing general aviation services to the local area.
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E.
Washington Municipal Airport
Washington Municipal Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Washington and surrounding communities in Washington County, Iowa.
- 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: Weir Cook Municipal Airport Target entity description: Weir Cook Municipal Airport was the original name of what is now Indianapolis International Airport, serving as the primary airfield for Indianapolis, Indiana, in the early to mid-20th century.
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A.
Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport
Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Gainesville in Hall County, Georgia.
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B.
Philip Billard Municipal Airport
Philip Billard Municipal Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Topeka in northeastern Kansas.
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C.
Vinton Veterans Memorial Airport
Vinton Veterans Memorial Airport is a public-use airport serving the city of Vinton in Benton County, Iowa, primarily accommodating general aviation activities.
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D.
Sherman Municipal Airport
Sherman Municipal Airport is a public-use airport in Sherman, Texas, providing general aviation services to the local area.
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E.
Washington Municipal Airport
Washington Municipal Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Washington and surrounding communities in Washington County, Iowa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerNameOf | Indianapolis International Airport ⓘ |
| function |
primary airfield for Indianapolis in early 20th century
ⓘ
primary airfield for Indianapolis in mid-20th century ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Airports in Indiana
ⓘ
Former names of airports in the United States ⓘ Transportation buildings and structures in Indianapolis ⓘ |
| hasFAAcode | IND ⓘ |
| hasFormerName |
Indianapolis Municipal Airport
ⓘ
linked to:
Indianapolis International Airport
|
| hasIATAcode | IND ⓘ |
| hasICAOcode | KIND ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryAssociation | United States military aviation history ⓘ |
| hasRole | commercial aviation hub for central Indiana ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface |
asphalt
ⓘ
concrete ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | Indianapolis International Airport ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Indianapolis ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Indiana ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | America/Indiana/Indianapolis ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Marion County, Indiana ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Harvey Weir Cook ⓘ |
| namedForOccupation | World War I flying ace ⓘ |
| namedForPersonNationality | American ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Indianapolis Airport Authority ⓘ |
| partOf |
civil aviation infrastructure of Indiana
ⓘ
transportation in Indianapolis ⓘ |
| serves | Indianapolis metropolitan area ⓘ |
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: Weir Cook Municipal Airport Description of subject: Weir Cook Municipal Airport was the original name of what is now Indianapolis International Airport, serving as the primary airfield for Indianapolis, Indiana, in the early to mid-20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.