Antananarivo
E131488
Antananarivo is the capital and largest city of Madagascar, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Antananarivo canonical | 56 |
| Antananarivo metropolitan area | 3 |
| Antananarivo, Madagascar | 3 |
| Antananarivo urban commune | 1 |
| Antaninarenina, Antananarivo | 1 |
| City of Antananarivo Urban Commune | 1 |
| Greater Antananarivo | 1 |
| city of Antananarivo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1147047 — 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: Antananarivo Context triple: [Francophonie, hasKeyCity, Antananarivo]
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A.
Port Louis
Port Louis is the capital and largest city of Mauritius, serving as its main economic, political, and cultural center as well as a key regional port in the Indian Ocean.
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B.
Masvingo
Masvingo is one of Zimbabwe’s oldest urban centers, located in the country’s southeastern region near the Great Zimbabwe ruins.
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C.
Mutare
Mutare is a major city in eastern Zimbabwe, serving as the capital of Manicaland Province and an important commercial and transport hub near the border with Mozambique.
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D.
Roseau
Roseau is the largest city and main commercial and administrative center of the Caribbean island nation of Dominica.
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E.
Dodoma
Dodoma is the political and administrative capital city of Tanzania, located in the country’s central region.
- 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: Antananarivo Target entity description: Antananarivo is the capital and largest city of Madagascar, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center.
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A.
Port Louis
Port Louis is the capital and largest city of Mauritius, serving as its main economic, political, and cultural center as well as a key regional port in the Indian Ocean.
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B.
Masvingo
Masvingo is one of Zimbabwe’s oldest urban centers, located in the country’s southeastern region near the Great Zimbabwe ruins.
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C.
Mutare
Mutare is a major city in eastern Zimbabwe, serving as the capital of Manicaland Province and an important commercial and transport hub near the border with Mozambique.
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D.
Roseau
Roseau is the largest city and main commercial and administrative center of the Caribbean island nation of Dominica.
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E.
Dodoma
Dodoma is the political and administrative capital city of Tanzania, located in the country’s central region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Antananarivo Description of subject: Antananarivo is the capital and largest city of Madagascar, serving as its political, economic, and cultural center.
Referenced by (67)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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