Port of Djibouti
E101574
The Port of Djibouti is a major deep-water seaport and strategic maritime hub in the Horn of Africa, serving as a key gateway for trade between Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port of Djibouti canonical | 6 |
| Djibouti Port | 1 |
| Djibouti port complex | 1 |
| Port de Djibouti S.A. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T808001 — 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: Port of Djibouti Context triple: [Gulf of Aden, hasPort, Port of Djibouti]
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A.
Port of Aden
The Port of Aden is a major natural harbor and commercial seaport in Yemen, strategically located near the entrance to the Red Sea along key international shipping routes.
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B.
Port Sudan
Port Sudan is Sudan’s main seaport on the Red Sea, serving as the country’s primary hub for maritime trade and transport.
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C.
Port of Shuaiba
The Port of Shuaiba is a major commercial and industrial seaport in Kuwait that serves as one of the country’s key maritime hubs for cargo and petrochemical exports.
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D.
Khalifa Port
Khalifa Port is a major deep-water commercial seaport in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, serving as a key regional hub for container and cargo trade.
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E.
Port of Muscat
The Port of Muscat is a historic harbor in Oman’s capital that has long served as a key maritime gateway for regional trade and cultural exchange along the Arabian Sea.
- 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: Port of Djibouti Target entity description: The Port of Djibouti is a major deep-water seaport and strategic maritime hub in the Horn of Africa, serving as a key gateway for trade between Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
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A.
Port of Aden
The Port of Aden is a major natural harbor and commercial seaport in Yemen, strategically located near the entrance to the Red Sea along key international shipping routes.
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B.
Port Sudan
Port Sudan is Sudan’s main seaport on the Red Sea, serving as the country’s primary hub for maritime trade and transport.
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C.
Port of Shuaiba
The Port of Shuaiba is a major commercial and industrial seaport in Kuwait that serves as one of the country’s key maritime hubs for cargo and petrochemical exports.
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D.
Khalifa Port
Khalifa Port is a major deep-water commercial seaport in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, serving as a key regional hub for container and cargo trade.
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E.
Port of Muscat
The Port of Muscat is a historic harbor in Oman’s capital that has long served as a key maritime gateway for regional trade and cultural exchange along the Arabian Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
container port
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deep-water port ⓘ maritime transport hub ⓘ seaport ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway
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Djibouti–Addis Ababa road corridor ⓘ |
| country | Djibouti ⓘ |
| handlesMajorityOfImportsFor | Ethiopia ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
bunkering services
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import-export gateway ⓘ logistics and warehousing ⓘ transshipment hub ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
container cranes
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deep-water berths ⓘ fuel storage facilities ⓘ storage yards ⓘ |
| hasSecurityRole |
anti-piracy operations support
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maritime surveillance support ⓘ |
| hasTerminal |
bulk cargo terminal
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container terminal ⓘ general cargo terminal ⓘ oil terminal ⓘ |
| languageOfOperation |
Arabic
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English ⓘ French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Djibouti City
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Gulf of Tadjoura ⓘ Horn of Africa ⓘ |
| locatedNear | international shipping lane between Suez Canal and Indian Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Bab-el-Mandeb Strait
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Red Sea ⓘ |
| near |
Doraleh Container Terminal
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Doraleh Multipurpose Port ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Port of Djibouti
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Port de Djibouti S.A.
|
| ownedBy |
Government of Djibouti
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surface form:
Djibouti government
|
| partOf |
Port of Djibouti
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Djibouti port complex
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| playsRoleIn |
Ethiopia’s foreign trade
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regional trade integration ⓘ transit trade for East Africa ⓘ |
| servesAs | gateway for Ethiopian trade ⓘ |
| strategicFor |
Africa–Middle East–Asia trade
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global maritime shipping routes ⓘ maritime security in the Gulf of Aden ⓘ naval operations in the Red Sea ⓘ |
| supports | landlocked countries in East Africa ⓘ |
| usedBy | international shipping lines ⓘ |
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: Port of Djibouti Description of subject: The Port of Djibouti is a major deep-water seaport and strategic maritime hub in the Horn of Africa, serving as a key gateway for trade between Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Djibouti port complex
this entity surface form:
Port de Djibouti S.A.
this entity surface form:
Djibouti Port