KAN
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KAN is the IATA airport code for Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, a major airport serving Kano in northern Nigeria.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KAN canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4033745 — 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: KAN Context triple: [Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, IATAcode, KAN]
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A.
Kan
Kan is a transliteration variant of the title and name "Khan," historically used across Central and South Asia for rulers and nobility.
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B.
KNA
KNA is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Saint Kitts and Nevis.
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C.
KA
KA is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for cars registered in the German city of Karlsruhe.
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D.
Ka
Ka is the introspective poet and protagonist of Orhan Pamuk’s novel "Snow," whose return to Turkey and entanglement in political and personal conflicts drive the story’s exploration of faith, identity, and modernity.
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E.
Ka
Ka was an early ancient Egyptian king of the First Dynasty period, known from tomb inscriptions at Abydos and considered one of the first rulers to use a royal serekh.
- 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: KAN Target entity description: KAN is the IATA airport code for Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, a major airport serving Kano in northern Nigeria.
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A.
Kan
Kan is a transliteration variant of the title and name "Khan," historically used across Central and South Asia for rulers and nobility.
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B.
KNA
KNA is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Saint Kitts and Nevis.
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C.
KA
KA is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for cars registered in the German city of Karlsruhe.
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D.
Ka
Ka is the introspective poet and protagonist of Orhan Pamuk’s novel "Snow," whose return to Turkey and entanglement in political and personal conflicts drive the story’s exploration of faith, identity, and modernity.
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E.
Ka
Ka was an early ancient Egyptian king of the First Dynasty period, known from tomb inscriptions at Abydos and considered one of the first rulers to use a royal serekh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IATA airport code
ⓘ
international airport ⓘ |
| appliesToCity | Kano ⓘ |
| appliesToCountry | Nigeria ⓘ |
| appliesToRegion | Northern Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| countryCode | NG ⓘ |
| hasCargoService | yes ⓘ |
| hasCustomsFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| hasImmigrationFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| hasPassengerServiceType |
domestic flights
ⓘ
international flights ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| hasTerminalType |
domestic terminal
ⓘ
international terminal ⓘ |
| IATACode | KAN ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | DNKN ⓘ |
| identifies | Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport ⓘ |
| isMajorAirportFor | Northern Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPublicUse | yes ⓘ |
| locatedInCity | Kano ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Nigeria ⓘ |
| locatedInState | Kano State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Mallam Aminu Kano
ⓘ
linked to:
Aminu Kano
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| operatedBy | Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria ⓘ |
| servesAsHubFor | some Nigerian airlines ⓘ |
| servesCity | Kano ⓘ |
| timeZone |
West Africa Time
ⓘ
linked to:
West Africa Time (WAT)
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| timeZoneOffset | UTC+1 ⓘ |
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: KAN Description of subject: KAN is the IATA airport code for Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, a major airport serving Kano in northern Nigeria.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.