Potomac TRACON
E418254
Potomac TRACON is a Federal Aviation Administration terminal radar approach control facility that manages approach, departure, and radar services for the busy Washington, D.C. metropolitan airspace.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Potomac TRACON canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4167533 — 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: Potomac TRACON Context triple: [KADW, hasApproachControl, Potomac TRACON]
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A.
New York TRACON
New York TRACON is a Federal Aviation Administration terminal radar approach control facility that manages approach and departure air traffic for the New York metropolitan area’s major airports.
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B.
Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center
Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center is a Federal Aviation Administration facility responsible for managing and coordinating en route air traffic over a large portion of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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C.
Arlington Municipal Airport
Arlington Municipal Airport is a public general-aviation airport serving the city of Arlington in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area of Texas.
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D.
TWEB
TWEB is the standard abbreviation for ACM Transactions on the Web, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal focusing on research related to web technologies and applications.
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E.
College Park Airport
College Park Airport is a historic airfield in College Park, Maryland, recognized as the world’s oldest continuously operating airport and an early hub of American aviation.
- 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: Potomac TRACON Target entity description: Potomac TRACON is a Federal Aviation Administration terminal radar approach control facility that manages approach, departure, and radar services for the busy Washington, D.C. metropolitan airspace.
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A.
New York TRACON
New York TRACON is a Federal Aviation Administration terminal radar approach control facility that manages approach and departure air traffic for the New York metropolitan area’s major airports.
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B.
Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center
Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center is a Federal Aviation Administration facility responsible for managing and coordinating en route air traffic over a large portion of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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C.
Arlington Municipal Airport
Arlington Municipal Airport is a public general-aviation airport serving the city of Arlington in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area of Texas.
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D.
TWEB
TWEB is the standard abbreviation for ACM Transactions on the Web, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal focusing on research related to web technologies and applications.
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E.
College Park Airport
College Park Airport is a historic airfield in College Park, Maryland, recognized as the world’s oldest continuously operating airport and an early hub of American aviation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
air traffic control facility
ⓘ
terminal radar approach control facility ⓘ |
| airportServed |
Andrews Air Force Base
ⓘ
Joint Base Andrews ⓘ numerous satellite general aviation airports in the Washington, D.C. area ⓘ |
| callsign |
POTOMAC
ⓘ
linked to:
Potomac River
|
| controlsAirspaceType |
Class B airspace
ⓘ
Class C airspace ⓘ Class D airspace ⓘ terminal radar approach control airspace ⓘ |
| coordinatesWith |
Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center
ⓘ
New York Air Route Traffic Control Center ⓘ Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| jurisdiction | busy Washington, D.C. metropolitan airspace ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Virginia ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| operator | Federal Aviation Administration ⓘ |
| partOf | National Airspace System ⓘ |
| primaryAirportServed |
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
ⓘ
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ⓘ Washington Dulles International Airport ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Maryland
ⓘ
Pennsylvania ⓘ Virginia ⓘ Washington, D.C. metropolitan area ⓘ
linked to:
Washington metropolitan area
West Virginia ⓘ |
| responsibility |
coordinating handoffs with adjacent air traffic control facilities
ⓘ
maintaining separation between IFR aircraft in its airspace ⓘ managing arrival flows into Washington, D.C. area airports ⓘ managing departure flows from Washington, D.C. area airports ⓘ |
| serviceProvided |
air traffic sequencing
ⓘ
approach control ⓘ departure control ⓘ radar monitoring of instrument flight rules traffic ⓘ radar services ⓘ radar services to some visual flight rules aircraft ⓘ safety alerts ⓘ traffic separation ⓘ vectoring for instrument approaches ⓘ vectoring for visual approaches ⓘ |
| shortName | PCT ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
FAA Air Traffic Organization
ⓘ
linked to:
FAA
|
| usesTechnology |
automation systems for air traffic management
ⓘ
radar surveillance systems ⓘ radio communications with aircraft ⓘ |
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: Potomac TRACON Description of subject: Potomac TRACON is a Federal Aviation Administration terminal radar approach control facility that manages approach, departure, and radar services for the busy Washington, D.C. metropolitan airspace.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.