Sarandë
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Sarandë is a coastal city in southern Albania on the Ionian Sea, known for its beaches, tourism, and proximity to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Butrint.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12938682 — 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: Sarandë Context triple: [Himarë, locatedNorthOf, Sarandë]
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A.
Vlora
Vlora is a major coastal city and seaport in southwestern Albania, strategically located on the Adriatic Sea.
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B.
Durrës
Durrës is a major port city on the Adriatic coast of Albania, historically significant as a strategic maritime gateway and one of the country’s oldest urban centers.
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C.
Pogradec
Pogradec is a town in southeastern Albania known as a lakeside resort and cultural center on the shores of Lake Ohrid.
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D.
Elbasan
Elbasan is a city in central Albania known as an important industrial and transportation hub with historical roots dating back to the Ottoman era.
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E.
Lezhë
Lezhë is a historic town in northwestern Albania, known as the site of the League of Lezhë and for its cultural and archaeological heritage.
- 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: Sarandë Target entity description: Sarandë is a coastal city in southern Albania on the Ionian Sea, known for its beaches, tourism, and proximity to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Butrint.
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A.
Vlora
Vlora is a major coastal city and seaport in southwestern Albania, strategically located on the Adriatic Sea.
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B.
Durrës
Durrës is a major port city on the Adriatic coast of Albania, historically significant as a strategic maritime gateway and one of the country’s oldest urban centers.
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C.
Pogradec
Pogradec is a town in southeastern Albania known as a lakeside resort and cultural center on the shores of Lake Ohrid.
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D.
Elbasan
Elbasan is a city in central Albania known as an important industrial and transportation hub with historical roots dating back to the Ottoman era.
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E.
Lezhë
Lezhë is a historic town in northwestern Albania, known as the site of the League of Lezhë and for its cultural and archaeological heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | municipality seat ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Saranda
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Άγιοι Σαράντα NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alternativeNameLanguage | Greek ⓘ |
| areaCode | +355 ⓘ |
| climate | Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| climateClassification | Csa ⓘ |
| connectsToByFerry | Corfu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Albania ⓘ |
| distanceToButrint_km | about 18 GENERATED ⓘ |
| elevation_m | 0 ⓘ |
| hasBeach | Sarandë city beach ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
services
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasEthnicMinority | Greek minority ⓘ |
| hasFunction | ferry port ⓘ |
| hasNearbyArchaeologicalSite | Butrint NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyUNESCOWorldHeritageSite | Butrint NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPort | Port of Sarandë NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPromenade | seaside promenade ⓘ |
| isCoastalCity | true ⓘ |
| isPopularInSummer | true ⓘ |
| isTouristDestination | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
beaches
ⓘ
proximity to Butrint ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| language | Albanian ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern Albania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Albanian Riviera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Ionian Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnBay | Bay of Sarandë NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Blue Eye spring
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Butrint NERFINISHED ⓘ Greek island of Corfu NERFINISHED ⓘ Ksamil NERFINISHED ⓘ Lëkurësi Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Southern Region of Albania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vlorë County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| population | tens of thousands ⓘ |
| postalCode | 9701 ⓘ |
| regionType | coastal urban center ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Central European Summer Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +1 ⓘ |
| utcOffsetDST | +2 ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | SR NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sarandë Description of subject: Sarandë is a coastal city in southern Albania on the Ionian Sea, known for its beaches, tourism, and proximity to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Butrint.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Saranda