Alexandria International Airport
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Alexandria International Airport was the former main airport serving the city of Alexandria, Egypt, before being superseded by Borg El Arab Airport.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexandria International Airport canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3507963 — 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: Alexandria International Airport Context triple: [Borg El Arab Airport, replacedAsPrimaryInternationalAirport, Alexandria International Airport]
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A.
Luxor International Airport
Luxor International Airport is a major airport in Luxor, Egypt, serving as a key gateway for tourists visiting the city’s ancient temples and nearby archaeological sites.
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B.
Cairo International Airport
Cairo International Airport is Egypt’s busiest and largest airport, serving as the primary international gateway to Cairo and a major hub for air travel in the Middle East and Africa.
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C.
Hurghada International Airport
Hurghada International Airport is a major Egyptian airport on the Red Sea coast that serves the popular resort city of Hurghada and handles significant tourist traffic from Europe and the Middle East.
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D.
Sharm El Sheikh International Airport
Sharm El Sheikh International Airport is a major international gateway to the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, serving as a key hub for tourism and leisure travel.
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E.
Port Said Airport
Port Said Airport is a regional airport in northeastern Egypt serving the city of Port Said near the Mediterranean coast and the northern entrance to the Suez Canal.
- 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: Alexandria International Airport Target entity description: Alexandria International Airport was the former main airport serving the city of Alexandria, Egypt, before being superseded by Borg El Arab Airport.
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A.
Luxor International Airport
Luxor International Airport is a major airport in Luxor, Egypt, serving as a key gateway for tourists visiting the city’s ancient temples and nearby archaeological sites.
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B.
Cairo International Airport
Cairo International Airport is Egypt’s busiest and largest airport, serving as the primary international gateway to Cairo and a major hub for air travel in the Middle East and Africa.
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C.
Hurghada International Airport
Hurghada International Airport is a major Egyptian airport on the Red Sea coast that serves the popular resort city of Hurghada and handles significant tourist traffic from Europe and the Middle East.
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D.
Sharm El Sheikh International Airport
Sharm El Sheikh International Airport is a major international gateway to the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, serving as a key hub for tourism and leisure travel.
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E.
Port Said Airport
Port Said Airport is a regional airport in northeastern Egypt serving the city of Port Said near the Mediterranean coast and the northern entrance to the Suez Canal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | airport ⓘ |
| alternativeName | El Nouzha Airport ⓘ |
| cityServed | Alexandria ⓘ |
| closureReason | traffic transferred to Borg El Arab Airport ⓘ |
| country | Egypt ⓘ |
| elevation |
-2 metres
ⓘ
-7 feet ⓘ |
| formerMainAirportOf | Alexandria ⓘ |
| hasRunway | Runway 04/22 ⓘ |
| hasType | public airport ⓘ |
| IATAcode | ALY ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | HEAX ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Africa
ⓘ
Alexandria ⓘ Alexandria Governorate NERFINISHED ⓘ Nile Delta ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Mediterranean Sea ⓘ |
| operator | Egyptian Holding Company for Airports and Air Navigation ⓘ |
| regionServed | northern Egypt ⓘ |
| runwayLength | 2200 metres ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servedRegion | Alexandria metropolitan area ⓘ |
| serves | Alexandria ⓘ |
| servesCountry | Egypt ⓘ |
| supersededBy | Borg El Arab Airport ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Eastern European Time
ⓘ
UTC+02:00 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
civil aviation
ⓘ
military aviation ⓘ |
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: Alexandria International Airport Description of subject: Alexandria International Airport was the former main airport serving the city of Alexandria, Egypt, before being superseded by Borg El Arab Airport.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.