Hakmana
E1013904
Hakmana is a town in Sri Lanka’s Southern Province, known as a local commercial and administrative center within the Matara District.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hakmana canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12981955 — 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: Hakmana Context triple: [Matara District, hasTown, Hakmana]
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A.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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B.
Hekinan
Hekinan is a coastal industrial city in central Japan known for its manufacturing sector and location along Mikawa Bay in Aichi Prefecture.
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C.
Kashta
Kashta was a Kushite king of Nubia in the 8th century BCE who began the expansion into Egypt that his successors, including Shabaka, would complete.
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D.
Hudur
Hudur is a key urban center in southwestern Somalia that serves as an administrative and commercial hub for the surrounding region.
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E.
Huwawa
Huwawa is a monstrous guardian of the Cedar Forest in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, best known from the Epic of Gilgamesh.
- 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: Hakmana Target entity description: Hakmana is a town in Sri Lanka’s Southern Province, known as a local commercial and administrative center within the Matara District.
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A.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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B.
Hekinan
Hekinan is a coastal industrial city in central Japan known for its manufacturing sector and location along Mikawa Bay in Aichi Prefecture.
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C.
Kashta
Kashta was a Kushite king of Nubia in the 8th century BCE who began the expansion into Egypt that his successors, including Shabaka, would complete.
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D.
Hudur
Hudur is a key urban center in southwestern Somalia that serves as an administrative and commercial hub for the surrounding region.
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E.
Huwawa
Huwawa is a monstrous guardian of the Cedar Forest in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, best known from the Epic of Gilgamesh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Town ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionOf | Matara District ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| countryCapital | Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte ⓘ |
| governingCountry |
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
ⓘ
linked to:
Sri Lanka
|
| hasClimateRegion | Tropical ⓘ |
| hasCurrency | Sri Lankan rupee ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | Sinhala ⓘ |
| hasPostalCountryCode | LK ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryReligionMajorityCountry | Buddhism ⓘ |
| hasRole |
local administrative center
ⓘ
local commercial center ⓘ |
| hasTelephoneCountryCode | +94 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Matara District
ⓘ
Southern Province ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Sri Lanka Standard Time ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| nearestMajorCity |
Galle
ⓘ
Matara ⓘ
linked to:
Matara, Sri Lanka
|
| partOf |
Matara District
ⓘ
Southern Province ⓘ |
| region | Southern Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| usesDrivingSide | left ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +05:30 ⓘ |
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: Hakmana Description of subject: Hakmana is a town in Sri Lanka’s Southern Province, known as a local commercial and administrative center within the Matara District.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.