Palermo Airport
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Palermo Airport is a major international airport serving the city of Palermo and the surrounding region in northwestern Sicily, Italy.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Falcone–Borsellino Airport | 17 |
| Palermo Airport canonical | 7 |
| Aeroporto Falcone e Borsellino | 1 |
| Aeroporto di Palermo Falcone e Borsellino | 1 |
| Palermo Punta Raisi Airport | 1 |
| Paolo Borsellino Airport | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T431224 — 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: Palermo Airport Context triple: [Sicily, hasAirport, Palermo Airport]
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A.
Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
Catania–Fontanarossa Airport is a major international airport in eastern Sicily that serves as one of the island’s primary gateways for domestic and European air traffic.
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B.
Milan Malpensa Airport
Milan Malpensa Airport is a major international airport serving the Milan metropolitan area in northern Italy and one of the country’s busiest air transport hubs.
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C.
Milan Linate Airport
Milan Linate Airport is a major city airport serving Milan, Italy, primarily handling domestic and short-haul European flights close to the city center.
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D.
Ministro Pistarini International Airport
Ministro Pistarini International Airport is the main international gateway to Buenos Aires and one of Argentina’s busiest and most important airports.
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E.
Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport
Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport is one of Rome’s main airports, serving primarily low-cost and charter flights and located southeast of the city center.
- 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: Palermo Airport Target entity description: Palermo Airport is a major international airport serving the city of Palermo and the surrounding region in northwestern Sicily, Italy.
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A.
Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
Catania–Fontanarossa Airport is a major international airport in eastern Sicily that serves as one of the island’s primary gateways for domestic and European air traffic.
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B.
Milan Malpensa Airport
Milan Malpensa Airport is a major international airport serving the Milan metropolitan area in northern Italy and one of the country’s busiest air transport hubs.
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C.
Milan Linate Airport
Milan Linate Airport is a major city airport serving Milan, Italy, primarily handling domestic and short-haul European flights close to the city center.
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D.
Ministro Pistarini International Airport
Ministro Pistarini International Airport is the main international gateway to Buenos Aires and one of Argentina’s busiest and most important airports.
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E.
Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport
Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport is one of Rome’s main airports, serving primarily low-cost and charter flights and located southeast of the city center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international airport
ⓘ
transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Aeroporto di Palermo Falcone e Borsellino
ⓘ
linked to:
Palermo Airport
Falcone–Borsellino Airport ⓘ
linked to:
Palermo Airport
Punta Raisi Airport ⓘ |
| cityServed | Palermo ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| distanceFromCityCentre | about 35 km northwest of Palermo ⓘ |
| groundTransport |
bus connections to Palermo
ⓘ
railway station Punta Raisi on the Palermo metropolitan railway service ⓘ taxi services ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
car rental services
ⓘ
parking areas ⓘ shops and restaurants ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid | instrument landing system on main runway ⓘ |
| hasPassengerTerminal | main terminal building ⓘ |
| hasRunway | Runway 07/25 ⓘ |
| IATAcode | PMO ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | LICJ ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Punta Raisi
ⓘ
Sicily ⓘ northwestern Sicily ⓘ
linked to:
Tyrrhenian region
|
| locatedNear | Cinisi ⓘ |
| locatedOnCoast | Tyrrhenian Sea ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Giovanni Falcone
ⓘ
Paolo Borsellino ⓘ |
| offersServiceType |
domestic flights
ⓘ
international flights ⓘ |
| opened | 1960s ⓘ |
| operator | GESAP S.p.A. ⓘ |
| partOf | Italian national airport network ⓘ |
| region |
Mediterranean
ⓘ
linked to:
Mediterranean Sea
|
| regionServed | Sicily ⓘ |
| replaced | Boccadifalco Airport as main airport of Palermo ⓘ |
| runwayCount | 2 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves |
Metropolitan City of Palermo
ⓘ
Palermo ⓘ northwestern Sicily ⓘ |
| servesAsBaseFor |
ITA Airways
ⓘ
linked to:
Alitalia
Ryanair ⓘ |
| servesAsHubFor | Ryanair ⓘ |
| servesTourismTo |
Cefalù
ⓘ
Monreale ⓘ Palermo ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Central European Summer Time ⓘ |
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: Palermo Airport Description of subject: Palermo Airport is a major international airport serving the city of Palermo and the surrounding region in northwestern Sicily, Italy.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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LICJ
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