Kandahar International Airport
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Kandahar International Airport is a major airport in southern Afghanistan that serves both civilian flights and military operations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kandahar International Airport canonical | 5 |
| Kandahar Airfield | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3453660 — 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: Kandahar International Airport Context triple: [Kandahar, hasAirport, Kandahar International Airport]
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A.
Hamid Karzai International Airport
Hamid Karzai International Airport is the main international airport serving Kabul and the primary air gateway to Afghanistan.
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B.
Dalbandin Airport
Dalbandin Airport is a small domestic airport serving the town of Dalbandin in Balochistan, Pakistan, providing regional air connectivity.
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C.
Shah Makhdum Airport
Shah Makhdum Airport is a regional domestic airport serving the city of Rajshahi in western Bangladesh.
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D.
Quetta International Airport
Quetta International Airport is the main domestic and international air gateway serving the city of Quetta and the surrounding region of Balochistan, Pakistan.
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E.
Dera Ismail Khan Airport
Dera Ismail Khan Airport is a domestic airport in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, serving the city of Dera Ismail Khan and its surrounding region.
- 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: Kandahar International Airport Target entity description: Kandahar International Airport is a major airport in southern Afghanistan that serves both civilian flights and military operations.
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A.
Hamid Karzai International Airport
Hamid Karzai International Airport is the main international airport serving Kabul and the primary air gateway to Afghanistan.
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B.
Dalbandin Airport
Dalbandin Airport is a small domestic airport serving the town of Dalbandin in Balochistan, Pakistan, providing regional air connectivity.
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C.
Shah Makhdum Airport
Shah Makhdum Airport is a regional domestic airport serving the city of Rajshahi in western Bangladesh.
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D.
Quetta International Airport
Quetta International Airport is the main domestic and international air gateway serving the city of Quetta and the surrounding region of Balochistan, Pakistan.
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E.
Dera Ismail Khan Airport
Dera Ismail Khan Airport is a domestic airport in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, serving the city of Dera Ismail Khan and its surrounding region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
civil–military airport ⓘ international airport ⓘ |
| country | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| hasApron |
civilian apron
ⓘ
military apron ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
airports in Afghanistan
ⓘ
military installations of Afghanistan ⓘ transport in Kandahar Province ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
cargo transport
ⓘ
military air operations ⓘ passenger transport ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryUser |
Afghan Armed Forces
ⓘ
linked to:
Afghan National Defense and Security Forces
NATO forces ⓘ
linked to:
Armed Forces of NATO member states
United States Armed Forces ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid |
air traffic control tower
ⓘ
runway lighting ⓘ |
| hasRunway | Runway 05/23 ⓘ |
| hasTerminal | passenger terminal ⓘ |
| hasType |
military air base
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ |
| IATAcode | KDH ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | OAKN ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Kandahar Province ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | southern Afghanistan ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Kandahar ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Asia ⓘ |
| partOf | transport infrastructure of Afghanistan ⓘ |
| runwayDesignation | 05/23 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves |
Kandahar
ⓘ
southern Afghanistan ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Afghanistan
|
| servesAsHubFor | regional air traffic in southern Afghanistan ⓘ |
| usedAs |
air base
ⓘ
logistics hub ⓘ |
| usedDuring | War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) ⓘ |
| usedFor |
civilian flights
ⓘ
military operations ⓘ |
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: Kandahar International Airport Description of subject: Kandahar International Airport is a major airport in southern Afghanistan that serves both civilian flights and military operations.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kandahar International Airport
linked to: Kandahar International Airport
linked to: Kandahar International Airport
linked to: Kandahar International Airport