KY
E911173
KY is the IATA airline designator assigned to Kunming Airlines, a Chinese carrier based in Kunming, Yunnan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KY canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11204335 — 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: KY Context triple: [Kunming Airlines, IATAcode, KY]
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A.
KY
KY is the postcode area covering Kirkcaldy and surrounding parts of eastern Scotland.
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B.
KY
KY is the official United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Kentucky.
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C.
KE
KE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Kenya for international identification and data standards.
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D.
KE
KE is the standard abbreviation for "Kommounistiki Epitheorisi," the theoretical and political journal associated with the Communist Party of Greece.
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E.
KE
KE is the IATA airline designator for Korean Air, the flag carrier and largest airline of South Korea.
- 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: KY Target entity description: KY is the IATA airline designator assigned to Kunming Airlines, a Chinese carrier based in Kunming, Yunnan.
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A.
KY
KY is the postcode area covering Kirkcaldy and surrounding parts of eastern Scotland.
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B.
KY
KY is the official United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Kentucky.
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C.
KE
KE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Kenya for international identification and data standards.
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D.
KE
KE is the standard abbreviation for "Kommounistiki Epitheorisi," the theoretical and political journal associated with the Communist Party of Greece.
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E.
KE
KE is the IATA airline designator for Korean Air, the flag carrier and largest airline of South Korea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IATA airline designator
ⓘ
airline ⓘ |
| airlineType |
cargo airline
ⓘ
passenger airline ⓘ |
| allianceMembership | None ⓘ |
| assignedTo | Kunming Airlines ⓘ |
| baseAirport | Kunming Changshui International Airport ⓘ |
| callsign |
KUNMING AIR
ⓘ
linked to:
Kunming Airlines
|
| cityServed |
Kunming
ⓘ
linked to:
Kunming, China
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| countryCode | CN ⓘ |
| fleetType |
Boeing 737 family
ⓘ
linked to:
Boeing 737
|
| headquartersLocation |
Kunming
ⓘ
linked to:
Kunming, China
|
| headquartersRegion |
Yunnan
ⓘ
linked to:
Yunnan Province
|
| hubAirport | Kunming Changshui International Airport ⓘ |
| IATACode | KY ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | KNA ⓘ |
| market | Chinese domestic market ⓘ |
| operatingStatus | active ⓘ |
| ownership | state-controlled via Air China ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Air China ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Asia
ⓘ
domestic China ⓘ |
| serviceType | scheduled flights ⓘ |
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: KY Description of subject: KY is the IATA airline designator assigned to Kunming Airlines, a Chinese carrier based in Kunming, Yunnan.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.