Taplejung Airport
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Taplejung Airport is a small domestic airport in eastern Nepal that serves as an access point to the Kanchenjunga region and surrounding Himalayan areas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Taplejung Airport canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7490967 — 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: Taplejung Airport Context triple: [Taplejung District, hasAirport, Taplejung Airport]
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A.
Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport
Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport is a high-altitude civilian airport in Leh, Ladakh, serving as a key air gateway to the Indian Himalayas.
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B.
Paro Airport
Paro Airport is Bhutan’s primary international airport, known for its challenging approach amid steep mountains and limited number of pilots certified to land there.
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C.
Donyi Polo Airport
Donyi Polo Airport is a domestic airport serving Itanagar and the surrounding region in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
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D.
Tribhuvan International Airport
Tribhuvan International Airport is the main international gateway to Nepal, serving as the primary airport for the capital city of Kathmandu.
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E.
Tenzing-Hillary Airport
Tenzing-Hillary Airport is a small, high-altitude airport in Lukla, Nepal, known as the gateway to Mount Everest and for its extremely short, challenging runway.
- 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: Taplejung Airport Target entity description: Taplejung Airport is a small domestic airport in eastern Nepal that serves as an access point to the Kanchenjunga region and surrounding Himalayan areas.
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A.
Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport
Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport is a high-altitude civilian airport in Leh, Ladakh, serving as a key air gateway to the Indian Himalayas.
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B.
Paro Airport
Paro Airport is Bhutan’s primary international airport, known for its challenging approach amid steep mountains and limited number of pilots certified to land there.
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C.
Donyi Polo Airport
Donyi Polo Airport is a domestic airport serving Itanagar and the surrounding region in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
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D.
Tribhuvan International Airport
Tribhuvan International Airport is the main international gateway to Nepal, serving as the primary airport for the capital city of Kathmandu.
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E.
Tenzing-Hillary Airport
Tenzing-Hillary Airport is a small, high-altitude airport in Lukla, Nepal, known as the gateway to Mount Everest and for its extremely short, challenging runway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
domestic airport ⓘ |
| cityServed |
Taplejung
ⓘ
linked to:
Taplejung District
|
| country | Nepal ⓘ |
| hasType | public airport ⓘ |
| IATA code | TPJ ⓘ |
| ICAO code | VNTJ ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Koshi Province
ⓘ
Taplejung District ⓘ eastern Nepal ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Nepal ⓘ |
| locatedInMountainRegion | Himalayas ⓘ |
| operator | Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal ⓘ |
| primaryAccessTo | Kanchenjunga Base Camp trekking routes ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Kanchenjunga Conservation Area
ⓘ
linked to:
Kanchanjunga Conservation Area
|
| runwayOrientation | 09/27 ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves |
Himalayan region
ⓘ
Kanchenjunga region ⓘ
linked to:
Kangchenjunga region
Taplejung ⓘ
linked to:
Taplejung District
|
| servesAsGatewayTo |
Kanchenjunga area
ⓘ
linked to:
Kangchenjunga region
eastern Himalayas ⓘ |
| servesProvince | Koshi Province ⓘ |
| usedFor |
domestic flights
ⓘ
tourism access ⓘ trekking access ⓘ |
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: Taplejung Airport Description of subject: Taplejung Airport is a small domestic airport in eastern Nepal that serves as an access point to the Kanchenjunga region and surrounding Himalayan areas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.