Værnes Air Station
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Værnes Air Station is a Norwegian military air base co-located with Trondheim Airport, Værnes, serving as an important hub for the Royal Norwegian Air Force and NATO operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Værnes Air Station canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6981738 — 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: Værnes Air Station Context triple: [Trondheim Airport, Værnes, adjacentTo, Værnes Air Station]
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A.
Rygge Air Station
Rygge Air Station is a major Norwegian military air base that has served as an important hub for the Royal Norwegian Air Force.
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B.
Schleswig Air Base
Schleswig Air Base is a military airfield in northern Germany that serves as a key operational base for the German Air Force.
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C.
Karup Air Base
Karup Air Base is one of Denmark’s largest and most important military air installations, serving as a central hub for Royal Danish Air Force operations and command.
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D.
RAF Leuchars
RAF Leuchars is a Royal Air Force station in Fife, Scotland, historically significant as a major fighter base responsible for air defence of the United Kingdom.
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E.
RAF Kinloss
RAF Kinloss was a Royal Air Force station in Moray, Scotland, best known as a major base for maritime patrol and anti-submarine aircraft operations during the Cold War and beyond.
- 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: Værnes Air Station Target entity description: Værnes Air Station is a Norwegian military air base co-located with Trondheim Airport, Værnes, serving as an important hub for the Royal Norwegian Air Force and NATO operations.
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A.
Rygge Air Station
Rygge Air Station is a major Norwegian military air base that has served as an important hub for the Royal Norwegian Air Force.
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B.
Schleswig Air Base
Schleswig Air Base is a military airfield in northern Germany that serves as a key operational base for the German Air Force.
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C.
Karup Air Base
Karup Air Base is one of Denmark’s largest and most important military air installations, serving as a central hub for Royal Danish Air Force operations and command.
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D.
RAF Leuchars
RAF Leuchars is a Royal Air Force station in Fife, Scotland, historically significant as a major fighter base responsible for air defence of the United Kingdom.
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E.
RAF Kinloss
RAF Kinloss was a Royal Air Force station in Moray, Scotland, best known as a major base for maritime patrol and anti-submarine aircraft operations during the Cold War and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Norwegian Air Force station
ⓘ
military air base ⓘ |
| coLocatedWith | Trondheim Airport, Værnes ⓘ |
| country | Norway ⓘ |
| hasCivilMilitaryCooperation | yes ⓘ |
| hasControl | Norwegian military air traffic control presence ⓘ |
| hasElevation | approximately 56 m above sea level ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
air transport
ⓘ
logistics support ⓘ training ⓘ |
| hasGarrison | Royal Norwegian Air Force personnel ⓘ |
| hasHangars | military aircraft hangars ⓘ |
| hasIATACode | TRD ⓘ |
| hasICAOCode | ENVA ⓘ |
| hasNATOInfrastructure | yes ⓘ |
| hasParkingAprons | military aircraft stands ⓘ |
| hasRunway | Runway 09/27 ⓘ |
| hasRunwayLength | approximately 2999 m ⓘ |
| hasRunwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| hasSecurity | Norwegian military security forces ⓘ |
| hasType | joint civil-military airport ⓘ |
| isAccessibleFrom |
European route E6
ⓘ
railway station at Trondheim Airport, Værnes ⓘ |
| isPartOfNetwork | Royal Norwegian Air Force base structure ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central Norway
ⓘ
linked to:
central Norway
Stjørdal ⓘ Trøndelag ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Trondheim ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Værnes peninsula ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Norwegian Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf | Norwegian Armed Forces ⓘ |
| role |
air base for national defense
ⓘ
hub for NATO operations in Norway ⓘ support base for allied forces ⓘ |
| sharesFacilitiesWith | civilian airport operations at Trondheim Airport, Værnes ⓘ |
| strategicImportance |
important hub for NATO in the Nordic region
ⓘ
key base for air operations in central Norway ⓘ |
| supports |
airlift operations
ⓘ
deployment of allied forces ⓘ exercises and training with NATO partners ⓘ |
| supportsUnitType |
helicopters
ⓘ
transport aircraft ⓘ visiting NATO aircraft ⓘ |
| usedBy |
NATO
ⓘ
Royal Norwegian Air Force ⓘ United States Armed Forces ⓘ |
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: Værnes Air Station Description of subject: Værnes Air Station is a Norwegian military air base co-located with Trondheim Airport, Værnes, serving as an important hub for the Royal Norwegian Air Force and NATO operations.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.