Runway 26R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport

E421119

airport runway infrastructure

Runway 26R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport is a major departure runway best known as the takeoff runway used by the Air France Concorde involved in the fatal Flight 4590 accident in 2000.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Runway 26R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport canonical	2
Runway 08R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport	1
Runway 26L at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4220271 — 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: Runway 26R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
Context triple: [Air France Flight 4590, runwayOfTakeoff, Runway 26R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport]

A. Runway 15R/33L
Runway 15R/33L is one of the primary parallel runways at Boston Logan International Airport, used for both arrivals and departures.
B. Runway 15L/33R
Runway 15L/33R is one of the primary paved runways at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, used for handling commercial air traffic in both directions.
C. Runway 15L/33R
Runway 15L/33R is one of the primary paved runways at Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, used for general aviation and commercial aircraft operations.
D. Runway 11L/29R
Runway 11L/29R is a primary paved runway used for aircraft takeoffs and landings at Fresno Yosemite International Airport in Fresno, California.
E. Runway 11L/29R
Runway 11L/29R is one of the primary paved runways at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, India, used for handling high volumes of domestic and international air traffic.
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: Runway 26R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
Target entity description: Runway 26R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport is a major departure runway best known as the takeoff runway used by the Air France Concorde involved in the fatal Flight 4590 accident in 2000.

A. Runway 15R/33L
Runway 15R/33L is one of the primary parallel runways at Boston Logan International Airport, used for both arrivals and departures.
B. Runway 15L/33R
Runway 15L/33R is one of the primary paved runways at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, used for handling commercial air traffic in both directions.
C. Runway 15L/33R
Runway 15L/33R is one of the primary paved runways at Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, used for general aviation and commercial aircraft operations.
D. Runway 11L/29R
Runway 11L/29R is a primary paved runway used for aircraft takeoffs and landings at Fresno Yosemite International Airport in Fresno, California.
E. Runway 11L/29R
Runway 11L/29R is one of the primary paved runways at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, India, used for handling high volumes of domestic and international air traffic.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (35)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	airport runway ⓘ infrastructure ⓘ
associatedWith	Air France Flight 4590 ⓘ Concorde crash of 25 July 2000 ⓘ
belongsTo	primary runway complex of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport ⓘ
category	commercial aviation infrastructure ⓘ
country	France ⓘ
dateOfEvent	2000-07-25 ⓘ
hasAccidentHistory	Air France Flight 4590 Concorde crash ⓘ linked to: Air France Flight 4590
hasRunwayDesignation	08L ⓘ 26R ⓘ
hasRunwayNumber	26 ⓘ
hasSideDesignator	R ⓘ
icaoAirportCode	LFPG ⓘ
knownFor	being the departure runway used by the Concorde involved in Air France Flight 4590 ⓘ role in the fatal Concorde accident in 2000 ⓘ
locatedIn	France ⓘ Roissy-en-France ⓘ Île-de-France ⓘ linked to: Île-de-France region
nearCity	Paris ⓘ
operator	Groupe ADP ⓘ
orientation	approximately east–west ⓘ
parallelTo	Runway 08R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport ⓘ linked to: Runway 26R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport Runway 26L at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport ⓘ linked to: Runway 26R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
partOf	Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport ⓘ linked to: Charles de Gaulle Airport
partOfRunwaySystem	parallel runway system at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport ⓘ
regulationJurisdiction	Direction générale de l’aviation civile ⓘ
servesAirport	Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport ⓘ linked to: Charles de Gaulle Airport
surfaceType	asphalt ⓘ
takeoffRunwayFor	Air France Flight 4590 ⓘ
usedAs	major departure runway at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport ⓘ
usedBy	Air France ⓘ international airlines ⓘ
usedFor	aircraft arrivals ⓘ aircraft departures ⓘ

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Air France Flight 4590 → runwayOfTakeoff → Runway 26R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport ⓘ

AF4590 → runwayOfTakeoff → Runway 26R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport ⓘ

Runway 26R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport → parallelTo → Runway 26L at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport ⓘ

linked to: Runway 26R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport

Runway 26R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport → parallelTo → Runway 08R at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport ⓘ