Metropolitan Airport
E721513
Metropolitan Airport was the former name of Van Nuys Airport, a major general aviation airport in the Los Angeles area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan Airport canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8250756 — 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: Metropolitan Airport Context triple: [Van Nuys Airport, formerName, Metropolitan Airport]
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A.
Albert J. Ellis Airport
Albert J. Ellis Airport is a public airport serving commercial and general aviation needs for Jacksonville and the surrounding Onslow County area in North Carolina.
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B.
Las Américas International Airport
Las Américas International Airport is a major international gateway serving the Dominican Republic’s capital region and one of the country’s busiest hubs for passenger and cargo traffic.
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C.
Max Westheimer Airport
Max Westheimer Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Norman, Oklahoma, and the surrounding region.
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D.
Columbia Airport
Columbia Airport is a public general-aviation airport serving the historic Gold Rush town of Columbia in Tuolumne County, California.
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E.
Friedman Memorial Airport
Friedman Memorial Airport is a public airport serving the Sun Valley and Ketchum area in central Idaho, known primarily for providing commercial air access to this popular resort region.
- 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: Metropolitan Airport Target entity description: Metropolitan Airport was the former name of Van Nuys Airport, a major general aviation airport in the Los Angeles area.
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A.
Albert J. Ellis Airport
Albert J. Ellis Airport is a public airport serving commercial and general aviation needs for Jacksonville and the surrounding Onslow County area in North Carolina.
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B.
Las Américas International Airport
Las Américas International Airport is a major international gateway serving the Dominican Republic’s capital region and one of the country’s busiest hubs for passenger and cargo traffic.
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C.
Max Westheimer Airport
Max Westheimer Airport is a public general aviation airport serving the city of Norman, Oklahoma, and the surrounding region.
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D.
Columbia Airport
Columbia Airport is a public general-aviation airport serving the historic Gold Rush town of Columbia in Tuolumne County, California.
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E.
Friedman Memorial Airport
Friedman Memorial Airport is a public airport serving the Sun Valley and Ketchum area in central Idaho, known primarily for providing commercial air access to this popular resort region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
former name of airport ⓘ general aviation airport ⓘ |
| airportType |
general aviation airport
ⓘ
general aviation airport ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerDesignation | Metropolitan Airport, Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerName | Metropolitan Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Van Nuys Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
California ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Los Angeles ⓘ Los Angeles ⓘ Los Angeles County NERFINISHED ⓘ San Fernando Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Van Nuys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCity | Van Nuys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInValley | San Fernando Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Los Angeles World Airports NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | City of Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Los Angeles World Airports system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles area aviation system ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Los Angeles metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renamedAs | Van Nuys Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Van Nuys Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Metropolitan Airport Description of subject: Metropolitan Airport was the former name of Van Nuys Airport, a major general aviation airport in the Los Angeles area.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
VNY