resolve_airport
Resolve airport
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Which aerodrome does this airport code or name refer to on a given date?
Accepts an IATA three-letter code, an ICAO four-letter code, an airport
name fragment or a city name. Returns the aerodrome with its codes,
location, elevation, IANA timezone and type (large, medium, small,
heliport or closed).
Pass as_of whenever the question concerns a past date. Airport codes move
between aerodromes: ATH meant Ellinikon until 2001 and Athens
International after it; HKG meant Kai Tak until 1998. Without a date these
questions get today's answer, which is silently wrong for historical data.
timezone is always an IANA identifier such as Europe/London, never a UTC
offset, because an offset cannot express daylight saving.
Do NOT use this for live operational status, runway or stand data, slots,
or whether an airport is currently accepting traffic. It answers identity
questions only. A name fragment matching several aerodromes returnsambiguous with candidates rather than picking one; use country_hint
(ISO 3166 alpha-2) to narrow it.
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 | |
| country_hint | any | no |
Raw JSON schema
{
"properties": {
"identifier": {
"title": "Identifier",
"type": "string"
},
"as_of": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "As Of"
},
"country_hint": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Country Hint"
}
},
"required": [
"identifier"
],
"type": "object",
"title": "resolve_airportArguments"
}