RAF Duxford
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RAF Duxford is a historic former Royal Air Force airfield in Cambridgeshire, England, renowned for its role in the Second World War and now home to the Imperial War Museum Duxford and major airshows.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RAF Duxford canonical | 10 |
| Duxford | 6 |
| Duxford Airfield | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7258976 — 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: RAF Duxford Context triple: [No. 92 Squadron RAF, base, RAF Duxford]
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A.
RAF Uxbridge
RAF Uxbridge was a Royal Air Force station in west London best known for housing the underground operations room that directed RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain in World War II.
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B.
RAF Bicester
RAF Bicester is a former Royal Air Force station in Oxfordshire, England, notable as one of the best-preserved examples of an interwar bomber base and now partly used for heritage, commercial, and recreational purposes.
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C.
RAF Odiham
RAF Odiham is a Royal Air Force station in Hampshire, England, best known as the main operating base for the RAF’s Chinook helicopter fleet and a key hub for UK air mobility and support operations.
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D.
RAF Kemble
RAF Kemble was a former Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England, best known as an early home of the Red Arrows and later as a major aircraft maintenance and storage airfield.
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E.
RAF Valley
RAF Valley is a Royal Air Force station on Anglesey in Wales, best known as a major fast-jet and helicopter aircrew training 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: RAF Duxford Target entity description: RAF Duxford is a historic former Royal Air Force airfield in Cambridgeshire, England, renowned for its role in the Second World War and now home to the Imperial War Museum Duxford and major airshows.
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A.
RAF Uxbridge
RAF Uxbridge was a Royal Air Force station in west London best known for housing the underground operations room that directed RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain in World War II.
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B.
RAF Bicester
RAF Bicester is a former Royal Air Force station in Oxfordshire, England, notable as one of the best-preserved examples of an interwar bomber base and now partly used for heritage, commercial, and recreational purposes.
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C.
RAF Odiham
RAF Odiham is a Royal Air Force station in Hampshire, England, best known as the main operating base for the RAF’s Chinook helicopter fleet and a key hub for UK air mobility and support operations.
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D.
RAF Kemble
RAF Kemble was a former Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England, best known as an early home of the Red Arrows and later as a major aircraft maintenance and storage airfield.
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E.
RAF Valley
RAF Valley is a Royal Air Force station on Anglesey in Wales, best known as a major fast-jet and helicopter aircrew training base.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airfield
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former Royal Air Force station ⓘ heritage site ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| currentUse |
aviation museum
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operational airfield for historic and private aircraft ⓘ |
| established | First World War era ⓘ |
| featuredIn |
film "Battle of Britain"
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linked to:
Battle of Britain (film)
various aviation documentaries ⓘ |
| hasPart |
AirSpace exhibition
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American Air Museum in Britain ⓘ Battle of Britain exhibition ⓘ
linked to:
museum of the Battle of Britain
Imperial War Museum Duxford ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
listed buildings (hangars and structures)
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scheduled monument (parts of site) ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridgeshire
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linked to:
Cambridgeshire, England
England ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Cambridge
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Duxford ⓘ
linked to:
RAF Duxford
|
| nearestCity | Cambridge ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Duxford Air Shows
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large collection of historic aircraft ⓘ major UK airshows ⓘ preserved historic hangars ⓘ role in the Battle of Britain ⓘ |
| opened | 1918 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Flying Corps ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Imperial War Museum
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linked to:
Imperial War Museums
|
| partOf | Imperial War Museum Duxford ⓘ |
| region | East of England ⓘ |
| roleDuring | fighter station during the Battle of Britain ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
Battle of Britain
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Second World War operations ⓘ |
| stationedUnit |
78th Fighter Group USAAF
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No. 19 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 242 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 601 Squadron RAF ⓘ No. 65 Squadron RAF ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Allied air forces during the Second World War
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Royal Air Force ⓘ United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| usedFor |
airshows
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film and television location ⓘ military aviation ⓘ museum exhibitions ⓘ |
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: RAF Duxford Description of subject: RAF Duxford is a historic former Royal Air Force airfield in Cambridgeshire, England, renowned for its role in the Second World War and now home to the Imperial War Museum Duxford and major airshows.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: RAF Duxford