BIA
E393459
BIA is the IATA airport code for Bastia – Poretta Airport, the main air gateway serving the city of Bastia on the French island of Corsica.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BIA canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3841104 — 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: BIA Context triple: [Bastia – Poretta Airport, IATAcode, BIA]
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A.
BIA
BIA is a U.S. federal agency within the Department of the Interior responsible for managing relations and services for Native American tribes and Alaska Natives.
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B.
BIA
BIA is the acronym for the Board of Immigration Appeals, the highest administrative body for interpreting and applying U.S. immigration laws.
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C.
BIE
BIE is a U.S. federal agency within the Department of the Interior responsible for providing and overseeing education services for Native American students in schools on or near reservations.
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D.
BIE
BIE is the commonly used acronym for the Bureau International des Expositions, the intergovernmental organization that oversees and regulates World Expos.
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E.
BIFA
BIFA is the organization that runs the British Independent Film Awards, celebrating excellence in independent filmmaking in the United Kingdom.
- 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: BIA Target entity description: BIA is the IATA airport code for Bastia – Poretta Airport, the main air gateway serving the city of Bastia on the French island of Corsica.
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A.
BIA
BIA is a U.S. federal agency within the Department of the Interior responsible for managing relations and services for Native American tribes and Alaska Natives.
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B.
BIA
BIA is the acronym for the Board of Immigration Appeals, the highest administrative body for interpreting and applying U.S. immigration laws.
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C.
BIE
BIE is a U.S. federal agency within the Department of the Interior responsible for providing and overseeing education services for Native American students in schools on or near reservations.
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D.
BIE
BIE is the commonly used acronym for the Bureau International des Expositions, the intergovernmental organization that oversees and regulates World Expos.
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E.
BIFA
BIFA is the organization that runs the British Independent Film Awards, celebrating excellence in independent filmmaking in the United Kingdom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IATA airport code
ⓘ
airport ⓘ |
| cityServed | Bastia ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
26 meters
ⓘ
85 feet ⓘ |
| hasPassengerTerminal | yes ⓘ |
| hasScheduledPassengerService | yes ⓘ |
| IATA code | BIA ⓘ |
| ICAO code | LFKB ⓘ |
| isOnIsland | Corsica ⓘ |
| isPublicUse | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bastia
ⓘ
Corsica ⓘ France ⓘ Haute-Corse ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Mediterranean Sea ⓘ |
| operator | Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Bastia et de la Haute-Corse ⓘ |
| primaryAirGatewayFor |
Bastia
ⓘ
northeastern Corsica ⓘ |
| regionServed | Haute-Corse ⓘ |
| represents | Bastia – Poretta Airport ⓘ |
| runway | 16/34 ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
2500 meters
ⓘ
8202 feet ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves | Bastia ⓘ |
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneInSummer | CEST ⓘ |
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: BIA Description of subject: BIA is the IATA airport code for Bastia – Poretta Airport, the main air gateway serving the city of Bastia on the French island of Corsica.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.