Porto-Novo
E171111
Porto-Novo is the official capital city of Benin, known for its colonial architecture and role as a political and cultural center in West Africa.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Porto-Novo canonical | 10 |
| Porto Novo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1500685 — 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: Porto-Novo Context triple: [Benin, hasCapital, Porto-Novo]
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A.
João Pessoa
João Pessoa is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Paraíba, known for its historic colonial architecture and easternmost location in the Americas.
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B.
Campina Grande
Campina Grande is a major city in northeastern Brazil known for its technology and education hubs and for hosting one of the world’s largest São João (June) festivals.
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C.
Aquiraz
Aquiraz is a coastal municipality in the Brazilian state of Ceará known for its beaches, historical colonial architecture, and tourism attractions.
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D.
Olinda
Olinda is a historic coastal city in northeastern Brazil renowned for its well-preserved colonial architecture and vibrant Carnival celebrations.
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E.
Aracaju
Aracaju is a coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its planned urban layout, beaches, and role as an administrative and economic center.
- 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: Porto-Novo Target entity description: Porto-Novo is the official capital city of Benin, known for its colonial architecture and role as a political and cultural center in West Africa.
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A.
João Pessoa
João Pessoa is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Paraíba, known for its historic colonial architecture and easternmost location in the Americas.
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B.
Campina Grande
Campina Grande is a major city in northeastern Brazil known for its technology and education hubs and for hosting one of the world’s largest São João (June) festivals.
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C.
Aquiraz
Aquiraz is a coastal municipality in the Brazilian state of Ceará known for its beaches, historical colonial architecture, and tourism attractions.
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D.
Olinda
Olinda is a historic coastal city in northeastern Brazil renowned for its well-preserved colonial architecture and vibrant Carnival celebrations.
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E.
Aracaju
Aracaju is a coastal city in northeastern Brazil known for its planned urban layout, beaches, and role as an administrative and economic center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Porto-Novo Description of subject: Porto-Novo is the official capital city of Benin, known for its colonial architecture and role as a political and cultural center in West Africa.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Porto Novo