Tambolaka
E169903
Tambolaka is a town on the Indonesian island of Sumba that serves as an important local hub with an airport and access point for exploring the island.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1384873 — 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: Tambolaka Context triple: [Sumba, hasTown, Tambolaka]
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A.
Tongaat
Tongaat is a town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, known for its significant Indian community and sugar industry.
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B.
Tontola
Tontola is a small locality or hamlet that forms part of the municipality of Predappio in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.
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C.
Ronga
Ronga is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique, known for contributing vocabulary and structural features to African varieties of Portuguese.
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D.
Lokoja
Lokoja is a city in central Nigeria located at the strategic confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers and serves as the capital of Kogi State.
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E.
Ketambe
Ketambe is a remote village in Aceh, Indonesia, known as a key access point for jungle trekking and wildlife viewing in the Gunung Leuser ecosystem, especially for observing wild orangutans.
- 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: Tambolaka Target entity description: Tambolaka is a town on the Indonesian island of Sumba that serves as an important local hub with an airport and access point for exploring the island.
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A.
Tongaat
Tongaat is a town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, known for its significant Indian community and sugar industry.
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B.
Tontola
Tontola is a small locality or hamlet that forms part of the municipality of Predappio in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.
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C.
Ronga
Ronga is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique, known for contributing vocabulary and structural features to African varieties of Portuguese.
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D.
Lokoja
Lokoja is a city in central Nigeria located at the strategic confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers and serves as the capital of Kogi State.
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E.
Ketambe
Ketambe is a remote village in Aceh, Indonesia, known as a key access point for jungle trekking and wildlife viewing in the Gunung Leuser ecosystem, especially for observing wild orangutans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| climate | tropical ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| countryCode | ID ⓘ |
| governingCountry |
Republic of Indonesia
ⓘ
linked to:
Indonesia
|
| hasAirport | Tambolaka Airport ⓘ |
| hasNearbyAttraction |
Sumba beaches
ⓘ
megalithic tombs on Sumba ⓘ traditional Sumbanese villages ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection |
regional flights
ⓘ
road network on Sumba ⓘ |
| localLanguages |
Sumba languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Sumba–Flores languages
|
| locatedIn | Sumba ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | East Nusa Tenggara ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Sumba ⓘ |
| partOf | Lesser Sunda Islands ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | Indonesian ⓘ |
| role |
gateway to Sumba
ⓘ
local transport hub ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Indonesia Time ⓘ |
| usedFor |
tourism access to Sumba
ⓘ
trade and services for western Sumba ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +8 ⓘ |
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: Tambolaka Description of subject: Tambolaka is a town on the Indonesian island of Sumba that serves as an important local hub with an airport and access point for exploring the island.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.