resolve_airline
Resolve airline
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Which airline does this designator, name or callsign refer to on a date?
Accepts an IATA two-character designator, an ICAO three-letter designator,
an airline name or a callsign. Returns the operator with both designators,
country, operational status and, where an airline ceased, its successor.
as_of matters more here than for any other tool. IATA two-character
designators are heavily reused: SN was Sabena until 2001 and has been
Brussels Airlines since 2007, so "SN" without a date is a question with two
answers. Where a date falls between two holders the tool returnsunresolved with both as alternates rather than guessing. ICAO three-letter
designators are not recycled the same way and are the safer identifier to
carry through a pipeline.
status is reported as at the date asked about, not as at today: asked
about 2005, Northwest Airlines is active, with a note that it merged into
Delta in 2010. A status of unknown means no reliable source states it --
the bulk open data flags long-dead airlines as active, so it is not
trusted. Unknown is not evidence of ceasing.
Do NOT use this for fleet lists, routes, schedules, alliance membership or
financial status.
Reading confidence: 1.0 means an exact unique match on an unambiguous identifier for the as_of date. 0.7-0.99 means a unique match reached through normalisation, an alias or a historical record. 0.4-0.69 means the best of several plausible candidates and alternates is populated -- prefer asking the user over picking one. Below 0.4 is speculative: do not act on it.
status is resolved, ambiguous or unresolved. An unresolved answer is a real result, not an error: it means this dataset cannot identify the thing, and inventing one would be worse. Every field in best has a citation in provenance. When the thing exists and this dataset could not identify it, report_unmet_need with gap_kind unresolved is how that gap gets prioritised -- report it, then tell the user you could not find it.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| identifier | string | yes | |
| as_of | any | no |
Raw JSON schema
{
"properties": {
"identifier": {
"title": "Identifier",
"type": "string"
},
"as_of": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "As Of"
}
},
"required": [
"identifier"
],
"type": "object",
"title": "resolve_airlineArguments"
}