Salina Municipal Airport
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Salina Municipal Airport is a public airport in Salina, Kansas, known for hosting record-setting long-distance and around-the-world flights such as those by the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salina Municipal Airport canonical | 3 |
| Salina Regional Airport | 3 |
| Salina Airport Authority | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4118299 — 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: Salina Municipal Airport Context triple: [Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, notableFlightStartLocation, Salina Municipal Airport]
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A.
Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport
Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Gainesville in Hall County, Georgia.
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B.
Vinton Veterans Memorial Airport
Vinton Veterans Memorial Airport is a public-use airport serving the city of Vinton in Benton County, Iowa, primarily accommodating general aviation activities.
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C.
Weir Cook Municipal Airport
Weir Cook Municipal Airport was the original name of what is now Indianapolis International Airport, serving as the primary airfield for Indianapolis, Indiana, in the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
Philip Billard Municipal Airport
Philip Billard Municipal Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Topeka in northeastern Kansas.
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E.
Westover Metropolitan Airport
Westover Metropolitan Airport is a public airport in western Massachusetts that serves civilian air traffic and shares facilities with the nearby Westover Air Reserve Base.
- 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: Salina Municipal Airport Target entity description: Salina Municipal Airport is a public airport in Salina, Kansas, known for hosting record-setting long-distance and around-the-world flights such as those by the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer.
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A.
Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport
Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Gainesville in Hall County, Georgia.
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B.
Vinton Veterans Memorial Airport
Vinton Veterans Memorial Airport is a public-use airport serving the city of Vinton in Benton County, Iowa, primarily accommodating general aviation activities.
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C.
Weir Cook Municipal Airport
Weir Cook Municipal Airport was the original name of what is now Indianapolis International Airport, serving as the primary airfield for Indianapolis, Indiana, in the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
Philip Billard Municipal Airport
Philip Billard Municipal Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Topeka in northeastern Kansas.
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E.
Westover Metropolitan Airport
Westover Metropolitan Airport is a public airport in western Massachusetts that serves civilian air traffic and shares facilities with the nearby Westover Air Reserve Base.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
public airport ⓘ |
| arrivalPointOf | Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer nonstop around-the-world flight ⓘ |
| associatedWithAircraft | Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| departurePointOf | Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer nonstop around-the-world flight ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 1,288 feet ⓘ |
| FAAcode | SLN ⓘ |
| hasApproachType | instrument approach procedures ⓘ |
| hasBasedUnits |
Army National Guard aviation units
ⓘ
Kansas Air National Guard (historical) ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas Air National Guard
|
| hasCategory |
airports in Kansas
ⓘ
buildings and structures in Saline County, Kansas ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
air traffic control tower
ⓘ
aircraft maintenance facilities ⓘ commercial passenger terminal ⓘ fixed-base operator ⓘ fuel services ⓘ general aviation terminal ⓘ hangars ⓘ |
| hasNearbyInfrastructure |
Interstate 135
ⓘ
Interstate 70 ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
Runway 12/30
ⓘ
Runway 17/35 ⓘ |
| hasUse |
air cargo operations
ⓘ
business aviation ⓘ flight testing ⓘ |
| hosts |
Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus aviation program
ⓘ
flight training operations ⓘ |
| IATAcode | SLN ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | KSLN ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Salina, Kansas
ⓘ
linked to:
Salina, Kansas, United States
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Kansas
ⓘ
Saline County, Kansas ⓘ |
| locatedOn | former Schilling Air Force Base ⓘ |
| notableFor |
record-setting around-the-world flights
ⓘ
record-setting long-distance flights ⓘ |
| operator |
Salina Airport Authority
ⓘ
linked to:
Salina Municipal Airport
|
| partOf | air transportation system of Kansas ⓘ |
| previouslyUsedAs | United States Air Force base ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves |
city of Salina, Kansas
ⓘ
linked to:
Salina, Kansas, United States
|
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial aviation
ⓘ
general aviation ⓘ military training ⓘ |
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: Salina Municipal Airport Description of subject: Salina Municipal Airport is a public airport in Salina, Kansas, known for hosting record-setting long-distance and around-the-world flights such as those by the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Salina, Kansas, United States
linked to: Salina Municipal Airport
subject linked to:
Salina, Kansas, United States
linked to: Salina Municipal Airport
linked to: Salina Municipal Airport
linked to: Salina Municipal Airport