Dübendorf Air Base
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Dübendorf Air Base is a major Swiss military airfield near Zurich that historically served as the country’s primary air force base and aviation hub.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dübendorf Air Base canonical | 3 |
| Swiss Air Force base | 2 |
| Zurich Dübendorf Air Base | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T757263 — 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: Dübendorf Air Base Context triple: [Swiss Air Force, headquartersLocation, Dübendorf Air Base]
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A.
Zurich Airport
Zurich Airport is Switzerland’s largest and busiest international airport, serving as a major European aviation hub near the city of Zurich.
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B.
Geneva Airport
Geneva Airport is a major international airport in western Switzerland serving the city of Geneva and the surrounding region, including access to the Alps and neighboring France.
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C.
Gatow Airfield
Gatow Airfield is a former military airbase in Berlin best known for its crucial role as a hub for Allied transport aircraft during the Berlin Airlift.
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D.
Gland, Switzerland
Gland, Switzerland is a small town on the shores of Lake Geneva that is best known as a global hub for environmental and conservation organizations.
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E.
Kleine-Brogel Air Base
Kleine-Brogel Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield known for hosting fighter aircraft operations and reportedly storing U.S. nuclear weapons under NATO arrangements.
- 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: Dübendorf Air Base Target entity description: Dübendorf Air Base is a major Swiss military airfield near Zurich that historically served as the country’s primary air force base and aviation hub.
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A.
Zurich Airport
Zurich Airport is Switzerland’s largest and busiest international airport, serving as a major European aviation hub near the city of Zurich.
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B.
Geneva Airport
Geneva Airport is a major international airport in western Switzerland serving the city of Geneva and the surrounding region, including access to the Alps and neighboring France.
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C.
Gatow Airfield
Gatow Airfield is a former military airbase in Berlin best known for its crucial role as a hub for Allied transport aircraft during the Berlin Airlift.
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D.
Gland, Switzerland
Gland, Switzerland is a small town on the shores of Lake Geneva that is best known as a global hub for environmental and conservation organizations.
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E.
Kleine-Brogel Air Base
Kleine-Brogel Air Base is a major Belgian military airfield known for hosting fighter aircraft operations and reportedly storing U.S. nuclear weapons under NATO arrangements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airfield
ⓘ
military air base ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
administration buildings
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aircraft shelters ⓘ apron ⓘ control tower ⓘ fire and rescue services ⓘ hangars ⓘ logistics buildings ⓘ maintenance facilities ⓘ military barracks ⓘ navigation aids ⓘ radar installations ⓘ taxiways ⓘ |
| hasICAOCode | LSMD ⓘ |
| hasRole |
logistics and support base
ⓘ
strategic air defense base ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
national aviation hub of Switzerland
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primary Swiss Air Force base ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Dübendorf ⓘ |
| locatedInCanton |
Canton of Zurich
ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Zürich
|
| locatedInRegion | Swiss Plateau ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Zurich
ⓘ
Zurich Airport ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Zurich ⓘ |
| nearbyMunicipality |
Dübendorf
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Volketswil ⓘ Wangen-Brüttisellen ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Swiss Air Force ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Swiss Confederation ⓘ |
| partOf | Swiss Air Force base network ⓘ |
| primaryUse | military aviation ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | asphalt ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Swiss government aircraft
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Swiss military aircraft ⓘ helicopter squadrons ⓘ reconnaissance units ⓘ transport squadrons ⓘ |
| usedFor |
VIP and government flights
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aerial surveillance ⓘ air force operations ⓘ aircraft maintenance ⓘ aircraft testing ⓘ civil aviation support ⓘ helicopter operations ⓘ historical aviation activities ⓘ military training flights ⓘ search and rescue operations ⓘ transport 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: Dübendorf Air Base Description of subject: Dübendorf Air Base is a major Swiss military airfield near Zurich that historically served as the country’s primary air force base and aviation hub.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dübendorf Air Base
linked to: Dübendorf Air Base
linked to: Dübendorf Air Base