Durrës
E110160
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.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Durrës canonical | 19 |
| Durrës, Albania | 2 |
| Durres | 1 |
| Port of Durrës | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T829605 — 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: Durrës Context triple: [Italian invasion of Albania, keyLandingSite, Durrës]
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A.
Tirana
Tirana is the capital and largest city of Albania, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center in the Balkans.
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B.
Monastir
Monastir, known today as Bitola in North Macedonia, is a historic Balkan city that played a significant strategic role during World War I.
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C.
Poti
Poti is a port city on Georgia’s Black Sea coast that serves as a major maritime and transportation hub for the country.
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D.
Skopje
Skopje is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia, known for its historic Ottoman and Byzantine heritage alongside extensive modern redevelopment.
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E.
Ohrid
Ohrid is a historic lakeside city in North Macedonia renowned as an early Slavic Christian and cultural center, famed for its medieval churches and monasteries.
- 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: Durrës Target entity description: 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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A.
Tirana
Tirana is the capital and largest city of Albania, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center in the Balkans.
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B.
Monastir
Monastir, known today as Bitola in North Macedonia, is a historic Balkan city that played a significant strategic role during World War I.
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C.
Poti
Poti is a port city on Georgia’s Black Sea coast that serves as a major maritime and transportation hub for the country.
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D.
Skopje
Skopje is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia, known for its historic Ottoman and Byzantine heritage alongside extensive modern redevelopment.
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E.
Ohrid
Ohrid is a historic lakeside city in North Macedonia renowned as an early Slavic Christian and cultural center, famed for its medieval churches and monasteries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Durrës Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Durres
subject surface form:
Durrës Archaeological Museum
this entity surface form:
Durrës, Albania
this entity surface form:
Durrës, Albania