Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport
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Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport is a major international airport in northern Nigeria serving the city of Kano and surrounding regions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T681834 — 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: Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport Context triple: [Kano, hasAirport, Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport]
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A.
Murtala Muhammed International Airport
Murtala Muhammed International Airport is the main international gateway to Nigeria and one of Africa’s busiest airports, serving the city of Lagos.
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B.
Ibadan Airport
Ibadan Airport is a domestic airport in Ibadan, Nigeria, providing air transport connections for the city and surrounding region.
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C.
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport is the main international gateway to Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, handling both domestic and international flights.
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D.
Khartoum International Airport
Khartoum International Airport is the main international gateway and busiest airport serving Sudan’s capital city, Khartoum.
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E.
Aden Adde International Airport
Aden Adde International Airport is the main international airport serving Mogadishu and the primary aviation gateway to Somalia.
- 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: Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport Target entity description: Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport is a major international airport in northern Nigeria serving the city of Kano and surrounding regions.
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A.
Murtala Muhammed International Airport
Murtala Muhammed International Airport is the main international gateway to Nigeria and one of Africa’s busiest airports, serving the city of Lagos.
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B.
Ibadan Airport
Ibadan Airport is a domestic airport in Ibadan, Nigeria, providing air transport connections for the city and surrounding region.
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C.
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport is the main international gateway to Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, handling both domestic and international flights.
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D.
Khartoum International Airport
Khartoum International Airport is the main international gateway and busiest airport serving Sudan’s capital city, Khartoum.
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E.
Aden Adde International Airport
Aden Adde International Airport is the main international airport serving Mogadishu and the primary aviation gateway to Somalia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
ⓘ
international airport ⓘ |
| cityServed | Kano ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| elevation |
1567 feet
ⓘ
478 meters ⓘ |
| hasCustoms | customs facilities ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
apron
ⓘ
cargo terminal ⓘ control tower ⓘ fire and rescue services ⓘ |
| hasImmigration | immigration facilities ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid |
ILS
ⓘ
NDB ⓘ VOR ⓘ |
| hasParking | aircraft parking stands ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
05/23
ⓘ
06/24 ⓘ |
| hasSecurity | aviation security services ⓘ |
| hasTerminal |
domestic terminal
ⓘ
international terminal ⓘ |
| hasUse |
charter flights
ⓘ
domestic flights ⓘ international flights ⓘ |
| IATAcode | KAN ⓘ |
| ICAOcode | DNKN ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kano State
ⓘ
northern Nigeria ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Nigeria
|
| namedAfter | Aminu Kano ⓘ |
| namedForNationalityOfEponym | Nigerian ⓘ |
| namedForOccupationOfEponym | politician ⓘ |
| operator | Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria ⓘ |
| runwayOrientation |
northeast–southwest
ⓘ
northwest–southeast ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| serves | Kano ⓘ |
| servesAs | gateway to northern Nigeria ⓘ |
| servesPopulationCenter |
Kano metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Kano
|
| servesRegion |
Sahel region of Nigeria
ⓘ
northern Nigeria ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Nigeria
|
| timezone | West Africa Time ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Hajj operations
ⓘ
cargo flights ⓘ civil aviation ⓘ |
| UTCoffset | +01:00 ⓘ |
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: Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport Description of subject: Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport is a major international airport in northern Nigeria serving the city of Kano and surrounding regions.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.