Asheville–Hendersonville Airport
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Asheville–Hendersonville Airport was a former commercial airport in western North Carolina that once served the Asheville and Hendersonville area before being replaced by Asheville Regional Airport.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Asheville–Hendersonville Airport canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10675396 — 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: Asheville–Hendersonville Airport Context triple: [Asheville Regional Airport, previousAirportServedBy, Asheville–Hendersonville Airport]
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A.
Asheville Regional Airport
Asheville Regional Airport is a public airport serving commercial and general aviation traffic for the Asheville metropolitan area and western North Carolina.
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B.
Transylvania County Airport
Transylvania County Airport is a small public general aviation airport serving Transylvania County in western North Carolina.
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C.
Statesville Regional Airport
Statesville Regional Airport is a public aviation facility serving general and corporate air traffic for the city of Statesville and the surrounding region in North Carolina.
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D.
Piedmont Triad International Airport
Piedmont Triad International Airport is a major commercial airport in North Carolina serving the Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point metropolitan area.
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E.
Hickory Regional Airport
Hickory Regional Airport is a public airport serving the city of Hickory and the surrounding region in western North Carolina, primarily supporting general aviation and limited commercial operations.
- 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: Asheville–Hendersonville Airport Target entity description: Asheville–Hendersonville Airport was a former commercial airport in western North Carolina that once served the Asheville and Hendersonville area before being replaced by Asheville Regional Airport.
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A.
Asheville Regional Airport
Asheville Regional Airport is a public airport serving commercial and general aviation traffic for the Asheville metropolitan area and western North Carolina.
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B.
Transylvania County Airport
Transylvania County Airport is a small public general aviation airport serving Transylvania County in western North Carolina.
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C.
Statesville Regional Airport
Statesville Regional Airport is a public aviation facility serving general and corporate air traffic for the city of Statesville and the surrounding region in North Carolina.
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D.
Piedmont Triad International Airport
Piedmont Triad International Airport is a major commercial airport in North Carolina serving the Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point metropolitan area.
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E.
Hickory Regional Airport
Hickory Regional Airport is a public airport serving the city of Hickory and the surrounding region in western North Carolina, primarily supporting general aviation and limited commercial operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial airport
ⓘ
defunct airport ⓘ |
| category |
Defunct airports in North Carolina
ⓘ
Transportation in Buncombe County, North Carolina ⓘ Transportation in Henderson County, North Carolina ⓘ |
| closed | 1961 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
2,134 ft
ⓘ
650 m ⓘ |
| FAAcode | AVL ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Asheville Regional Airport (codes AVL) in airline timetables ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | Asheville Regional Airport ⓘ |
| IATAcode | AVL ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
North Carolina
ⓘ
western North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Asheville, North Carolina
ⓘ
Hendersonville, North Carolina ⓘ |
| opened | 1936 ⓘ |
| operator |
City of Asheville
ⓘ
linked to:
Asheville, North Carolina
|
| replacedBy |
Asheville Regional Airport
ⓘ
new Asheville Regional Airport site at Fletcher, North Carolina ⓘ |
| runwayDesignation | 16/34 ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
1,981 m
ⓘ
6,500 ft ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| servedCity |
Asheville, North Carolina
ⓘ
Hendersonville, North Carolina ⓘ |
| servedRegion |
Asheville metropolitan area
ⓘ
Buncombe County, North Carolina ⓘ Henderson County, North Carolina ⓘ |
| status | closed ⓘ |
| use | public ⓘ |
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: Asheville–Hendersonville Airport Description of subject: Asheville–Hendersonville Airport was a former commercial airport in western North Carolina that once served the Asheville and Hendersonville area before being replaced by Asheville Regional Airport.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.