RAF Hemswell
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RAF Hemswell was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, historically used as a bomber and later missile base during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RAF Hemswell canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7522424 — 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 Hemswell Context triple: [No. 264 Squadron RAF, garrison, RAF Hemswell]
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A.
RAF Leeming
RAF Leeming is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire, England, that has served as an important base for various fast-jet, training, and support units.
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B.
RAF Watton
RAF Watton was a former Royal Air Force station in Norfolk, England, used primarily for bomber and reconnaissance operations during the Second World War and the Cold War.
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C.
RAF Wittering
RAF Wittering is a Royal Air Force station in Cambridgeshire, England, historically known as the "Home of the Harrier" and an important base for fast jet and support operations.
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D.
RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey
RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, that served as a key fighter base during the Second World War.
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E.
RAF Waddington
RAF Waddington is a major Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, known primarily as a hub for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance operations and as the home base of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team.
- 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 Hemswell Target entity description: RAF Hemswell was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, historically used as a bomber and later missile base during the mid-20th century.
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A.
RAF Leeming
RAF Leeming is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire, England, that has served as an important base for various fast-jet, training, and support units.
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B.
RAF Watton
RAF Watton was a former Royal Air Force station in Norfolk, England, used primarily for bomber and reconnaissance operations during the Second World War and the Cold War.
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C.
RAF Wittering
RAF Wittering is a Royal Air Force station in Cambridgeshire, England, historically known as the "Home of the Harrier" and an important base for fast jet and support operations.
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D.
RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey
RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, that served as a key fighter base during the Second World War.
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E.
RAF Waddington
RAF Waddington is a major Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, known primarily as a hub for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance operations and as the home base of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Royal Air Force station ⓘ |
| closureUse |
civilian use
ⓘ
industrial estate ⓘ |
| closureUse | residential use ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| garrison |
missile units
ⓘ
various RAF bomber squadrons ⓘ |
| hasCoordinate | approximately 53.386°N 0.557°W ⓘ |
| hasNearbySettlement |
Hemswell
ⓘ
Hemswell Cliff ⓘ |
| hasRunway | multiple hard-surface runways ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
bomber base in mid-20th century
ⓘ
missile base in mid-20th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Lincolnshire ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
ⓘ
linked to:
Gainsborough
|
| locatedOn |
Lincolnshire Wolds area
ⓘ
linked to:
Lincolnshire Wolds
|
| militaryBranch | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| notableFor | association with RAF Bomber Command ⓘ |
| notableUse | film location ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf | Bomber Command ⓘ |
| region | East Midlands ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | concrete ⓘ |
| status | closed ⓘ |
| usedDuring |
Cold War
ⓘ
Second World War ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
|
| usedFor |
bomber operations
ⓘ
missile base ⓘ training ⓘ |
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 Hemswell Description of subject: RAF Hemswell was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, historically used as a bomber and later missile base during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.