Palaly Airport
E386436
Palaly Airport is a regional airport in northern Sri Lanka serving the Jaffna Peninsula and surrounding areas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Palaly Airport canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3775078 — 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: Palaly Airport Context triple: [Jaffna International Airport, formerName, Palaly Airport]
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A.
Trivandrum International Airport
Trivandrum International Airport is a major airport in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, serving as one of the primary gateways to the Indian state of Kerala and the surrounding region.
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B.
Cochin International Airport
Cochin International Airport is a major international airport in the Indian state of Kerala, notable for being one of the busiest airports in the region and the world’s first fully solar-powered airport.
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C.
Calicut International Airport
Calicut International Airport is a major international airport in the Malabar region of Kerala, India, serving the city of Kozhikode and surrounding areas with extensive domestic and Gulf-region connectivity.
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D.
Mysore Airport
Mysore Airport is a domestic airport serving the city of Mysuru in the Indian state of Karnataka, providing regional air connectivity for passengers and cargo.
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E.
Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport
Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport is the main commercial airport serving Patna and the surrounding region in the Indian state of Bihar.
- 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: Palaly Airport Target entity description: Palaly Airport is a regional airport in northern Sri Lanka serving the Jaffna Peninsula and surrounding areas.
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A.
Trivandrum International Airport
Trivandrum International Airport is a major airport in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, serving as one of the primary gateways to the Indian state of Kerala and the surrounding region.
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B.
Cochin International Airport
Cochin International Airport is a major international airport in the Indian state of Kerala, notable for being one of the busiest airports in the region and the world’s first fully solar-powered airport.
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C.
Calicut International Airport
Calicut International Airport is a major international airport in the Malabar region of Kerala, India, serving the city of Kozhikode and surrounding areas with extensive domestic and Gulf-region connectivity.
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D.
Mysore Airport
Mysore Airport is a domestic airport serving the city of Mysuru in the Indian state of Karnataka, providing regional air connectivity for passengers and cargo.
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E.
Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport
Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport is the main commercial airport serving Patna and the surrounding region in the Indian state of Bihar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | airport ⓘ |
| airportType |
civil airport
ⓘ
regional airport ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Jaffna International Airport
ⓘ
SLAF Palaly ⓘ |
| cityServed | Jaffna ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 10 meters ⓘ |
| formerAirportType | military air base ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
domestic flights
ⓘ
regional international flights ⓘ |
| hasRole | gateway to northern Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| iataCode | JAF ⓘ |
| icaoCode | VCCJ ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Jaffna Peninsula
ⓘ
linked to:
Jaffna District
Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Kankesanthurai
ⓘ
Palaly ⓘ |
| operator | Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Limited ⓘ |
| regionServed | Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| reopenedForCivilianFlights | 2019 ⓘ |
| runway | 04/22 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves |
Jaffna Peninsula
ⓘ
linked to:
Jaffna District
northern Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| servesArea |
Jaffna District
ⓘ
surrounding areas of Jaffna Peninsula ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Sri Lanka Air Force
ⓘ
civilian operators ⓘ |
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: Palaly Airport Description of subject: Palaly Airport is a regional airport in northern Sri Lanka serving the Jaffna Peninsula and surrounding areas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
JAF